Leading Professional Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Connecting, Training, Empowering, Worldwide

banner

ROCKY 2018 | Dec 6 – 8, 2018 | Aspen/Snowmass, CO | HOME

ORAL PRESENTATIONS



OP01
Proteomics of natural bacterial isolates powered by deep learning-based de novo identification

Presenting Author: Samuel Payne, Brigham Young University

OP02
A platform for community-scale transcriptome-wide association studies

Presenting Author: YoSon Park, Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania

OP03
Harmonizing and Analyzing Clinical Trials Data in the AHA Precision Medicine Platform

Presenting Author: Carsten Goerg, University of Colorado

OP04
anexVis: visual analytics framework for analysis of RNA expression

Presenting Author: Diem-Trang Tran, University of Utah

OP05
The characterization of different cell types using the Benford law

Presenting Author: Sne Morag, Ariel University

OP06
Use of metadata and Bag-of-words to map measurements across observational study data

Presenting Author: Laura Stevens, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical School

OP07
ExtRamp: A novel algorithm for extracting the ramp sequence based on the tRNA adaptation index or relative codon adaptiveness

Presenting Author: Justin Miller, Brigham Young University

OP08
Using machine learning algorithms for classification of medulloblastoma subgroups based on gene expression data

Presenting Author: Sivan Gershanov, Ariel University

OP09
A human disease network from gene-publication relationships on PubMed

Presenting Author: Edward Lau, Stanford University

OP10
Transcriptome analysis of cancer adjacent normal tissues reveal genes co-expressed with LINE elements

Presenting Author: Mira Han, University of Nevada Las Vegas

OP11
Highly accurate computational characterization of protein kinase family-specific phosphorylation sites

Presenting Author: Chen Li, ETH Zürich

OP12
ORCHID: a method for detecting short-range chromatin interactions in high-resolution 5C and Hi-C datasets

Presenting Author: Fei Ji, Massachusetts general hospital

OP13
Using Adversarial Deep Neural Networks to Remove Nonlinear Batch Effects from Expression Data

Presenting Author: Jonathan Dayton, Brigham Young University

OP14
Med2Mech: Neural-Symbolic Representation of Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Pediatric Disease

Presenting Author: Tiffany Callahan, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus

OP15
A Machine Learning Classifier for Assigning Individual Patients with Systemic Sclerosis to Intrinsic Molecular Subsets

Presenting Author: Jennifer Franks, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

OP16
A Data Quality Testing Tool for Cross-institutional OMOP Electronic Health Record Data Repositories

Presenting Author: Timothy Bergquist, University of Washington

OP17
Comparative Analysis of Germline Microsatellites in the 1,000 Genomes Project

Presenting Author: Nicholas Kinney, Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

OP18
Unbiased Pathway Detection Expands Cancer Pathways

Presenting Author: Chih-Hsu Lin, Baylor College of Medicine

OP19
A systems biology approach to define essential kinases in small cell lung cancer

Presenting Author: Jihye Kim, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus

OP20
Clustering of Protein Conformations using Parallelized Dimensionality Reduction

Presenting Author: Arpita Joshi, University of Massachusetts, Boston

OP21
PredHPI: an integrated web-server platform for the prediction and visualization of host-pathogen interactions

Presenting Author: Rakesh Kaundal, Utah State University

OP22
Searching for translatable alternative splice isoforms in the human proteome

Presenting Author: Maggie Pui Yu Lam, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

OP23
Text Mining Novel Disease- and Drug-Specific Pathways

Presenting Author: Minh Pham, Baylor College of Medicine

OP24
Optimizing nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) de novo genome assemblies for application in clinical case studies

Presenting Author: Sara Kammlade, National Jewish Health

OP25
REAL-neo, a comprehensive neoantigen prediction and prioritization pipeline using tumor sequencing data

Presenting Author: Yesesri Cherukuri, Mayo Clinic

OP26
Measuring chromosome conformation

Presenting Author: Brian Ross, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

OP27
Modeling the Structure of BioGRID PPI Networks

Presenting Author: Sridevi Maharaj, University of California-Irvine

OP28
Addressing the compositional data problem in sequencing with a novel, robust normalization method

Presenting Author: James St. Pierre, University of Toronto

OP29
A Case Study on the Effects of Noisy, Long-read Correction Approaches on Assembly Contiguity

Presenting Author: Brandon Pickett, Brigham Young University

OP30
Integrative analysis of transcriptomics and proteomics to detect novel protein isoforms from alternatively spliced transcripts induced by SF3B1 spliceosomal mutations

Presenting Author: Kelsey Nassar, University of Colorado Anschutz

OP31
Exploring the Fabric of Breast Cancer Using Gene Sets

Presenting Author: Judith Blake, The Jackson Laboratory

OP32
Measuring and Protecting the Sensitive Linking Information Leakage Across Epigenetic and Transcriptomics Datasets Through Genotype and Assay Prediction

Presenting Author: Arif Harmanci, University of Texas Health Science Center

OP33
Education, Networking and Building Next Generation Prototypes -- Hackathons and Analyzeathons for Bioinformaticians, Biomedical Informaticians and Computational Biologists!

Presenting Author: Ben Busby, NCBI

OP34
Alternative Splicing of Single Cells in Squamous Cell Lung Cancer Premalignancy

Presenting Author: Hyunmin Kim, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

OP35
Inferring trade-offs in protein folding networks

Presenting Author: Sebastian Pechmann, Université de Montréal

OP36
Fully Bayesian model for non-random missing data in qPCR

Presenting Author: Valeriia Sherina, University of Rochester Medical Center

OP37
Homologous Inter-Domain Segments in Protein Families

Presenting Author: Dylan Barth, University of Nevada Las Vegas

OP38
Integrating extracted relations into existing knowledge bases

Presenting Author: Harrison Pielke-Lombardo, University of Colorado

OP39
The Use of Scientific Ignorance to Drive Literature-Based Discovery in Prenatal Nutrition Across Disciplinary Boundaries

Presenting Author: Mayla Boguslav, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

OP40
Governance Innovations for Promoting Cross-institutional Electronic Health Data Sharing

Presenting Author: Kari Stephens, University of Washington