Detailed Agenda

Two days ISCB-LatinAmerica-2012 Practical Tutorials
Day 1: Saturday - March 17, 2012
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Tutorial Registration
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM Practical Tutorials and Workshops (Morning Session)

Room Z06 FCBS

Analysis, Comparison and Classification of Protein Structures

Room CE1

Genome browsers with special emphasis in the ENSEMBL system

Room Z05 FCBS

Protein resources and tools: sequence, architecture and protein interactions

Room CC1D

Algorithms and tools for transcriptomics and multiple gene profiling using the open source platforms R and Bioconductor

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM Practical Tutorials and Workshops (Afternoon Session)

Room Z06 FCBS

Analysis, Comparison and Classification of Protein Structures

Room CE1

Genome browsers with special emphasis in the ENSEMBL system

Room Z05 FCBS

Protein resources and tools: sequence, architecture and protein interactions

Room CC1D

Algorithms and tools for transcriptomics and multiple gene profiling using the open source platforms R and Bioconductor

Day 2: Sunday - March 18, 2012
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Tutorial Registration
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM Practical Tutorials and Workshops (Morning Session)

Room CC1D

Immunoinformatics

Room Z06 FCBS

Next generation sequencing: an introduction for bioinformaticians

Room CE1

Functional Genomics

Room Z05 FCBS

Computer-Based Drug Design

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM Practical Tutorials and Workshops (Afternoon Session)

Room CC1D

Immunoinformatics

Room Z06 FCBS

Next generation sequencing: an introduction for bioinformaticians

Room CE1

Functional Genomics

Room Z05 FCBS

Computer-Based Drug Design

Three days ISCB-LatinAmerica-2012 Main Conference
Day 3: Monday - March 19, 2012
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM Main Conference Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Welcome/Opening Main Conference

SESSION I. Comparative Genomics and Evolution.

Chair of Session: Cristina Marino (Instituto Leloir, Argentina)

Location: Auditorium Juan Francisco Fresno (ground floor)

9:00 AM - 9:40 AM Keynote Lecture I: "Function prediction at different spatial scales"
Peer Bork. EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany.
9:40 AM - 10:30 AM Oral Presentations MM1-MM3

MM1 » The PhyloFacts-SchistoDB Schistosoma Database

Presenting Author: Kimmen Sjolander (University of California Berkeley)

Co-authors: Yaoqing Shen (University of California Berkeley, QB3); Ajithkumar Warrier (University of California Berkeley, QB3); Laila Nahum (FIOCRUZ Minas, Genomics and Computational Biology Group); Guilherme Oliveira (FIOCRUZ Minas, Genomics and Computational Biology Group)

MM2 » Identification of transcription regulation associated proteins in plants and stramenopiles

Presenting Author: Diego Mauricio Riaño Pachón (Universidad de los Andes)

Co-authors: Francisco J. Buitrago-Florez (Universidad de los Andes, Biological Sciences); Silvia Restrepo-Restrepo (Universidad de los Andes, Biological Sciences); Bernd Mueller-Roeber (Universität Potsdam, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology)

MM3 » Molecular Phylodynamics and Protein Modeling of Infectious Salmon Anemia Virus (ISAV)

Presenting Author: Eduardo Castro Nallar (Brigham Young University)

Co-authors: Marcelo Cortez-San Martín (Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Facultad de Química y Biología); Carolina Mascayano (Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Facultad de Química y Biología); Cristian Molina (Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Facultad de Química y Biología); Keith Crandall (Brigham Young University, Biology)

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:40 AM Keynote Lecture II: "Orphan Orfogenic ORFs in the genomes of African trypanosomes"
Fernando Alvarez. Universidad de la República, Uruguay.
11:40 AM - 12:30 PM Oral Presentations MM4-MM6

MM4 » Evolutionary events involved in pathogenic trait acquisition in Ascomycetes

Presenting Author: Aminael Sanchez-Rodriguez (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Co-authors: Riet De Smet (Ghent University, Plant Systems Biology); Kristof Engelen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Molecular and Microbial Systems); Qiang Fu (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Molecular and Microbial Systems); Yan Wu (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Molecular and Microbial Systems); Kathleen Marchal (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Molecular and Microbial Systems)

MM5 » Novel Classes of Eukaryotic Aspartic Proteases and the Identification of their Specificity Determining Residues

Presenting Author: María Revuelta (Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata)

MM6 » Conformational diversity: Relationship with protein evolution and designability

Presenting Author: Diego Zea (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes)

Co-authors: Gustavo Parisi (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones); Cristina Marino Buslje (Fundación Instituto Leloir, Bioinformatics Unit)

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Business Presentation with free Lunch Sponsored by Life Technologies (open to any interested people)

Location: Sala Colorada (ground floor)

SESSION II. Genomics, Proteomics, Metagenomics and Metabolomics.

Chair of Session: David Holmes (Fundación Ciencia & Vida; Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile)

Location: Auditorium Juan Francisco Fresno (ground floor)

2:00 PM - 2:40 PM Keynote Lecture III: "Challenges of Assembling Genomes from the Second Generation Sequencing data"
Aleksey Zimin. University of Maryland, USA.
2:40 PM - 3:30 PM Oral Presentations MA1-MA3

MA1 » The ISA Commons – Towards interoperable data in bioscience

Presenting Author: Susanna-Assunta Sansone (University of Oxford)

Co-authors: Philippe Rocca-Serra (University of Oxford, Oxford e-Research Centre); Eamonn Maguire (University of Oxford, Oxford e-Research Centre)

MA2 » A Fast de novo Genome-Wide Tandem Repeat Discovery Algorithm

Presenting Author: Marcelo Gonçalves Narciso (Embrapa)

Co-authors: Michel Yamagishi (Embrapa); Marcelo Gonçalves Narciso (Embrapa, Bioinformatics)

MA3 » GOBOOT: testing set enrichment analysis robustness to background selection

Presenting Author: Cristobal Fresno Rodríguez (Catholic University of Córdoba)

Co-authors: Andrea Llera (Leloir Institute, CONICET, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Therapy); María R Girotti (Leloir Institute, CONICET, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Therapy); María P Valacco (Leloir Institute, CONICET, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Therapy); Juan A López (National Center for Cardiovascular Research, Madrid); Osvaldo L Podhajcer (Leloir Institute, CONICET, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Therapy); Mónica G Balzarini (National University of Córdoba, Biometry Laboratory); Federico Prada (UADE, Institute of Technology, School of Engineering and Sciences); Elmer A Fernández (Catholic University of Córdoba, CONICET, BioScience Data Mining Group)

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:40 PM Keynote Lecture IV: "SABIA: A new version for next generation sequencing platforms"
Ana Teresa Ribeiro de Vasconcelos. National Laboratory of Scientific Computation, Brazil.
4:40 PM - 5:30 PM Oral Presentations MA4-MA6

MA4 » Computational Pattern Recognition for the Identification of Transposases in Prokaryotic Genomes: Challenges and Advances

Presenting Author: Gonzalo Riadi (Universidad de Talca)

Co-authors: David Holmes (Fundación Ciencia & Vida and Universidad Andrés Bello, Facultad Ciencias Biológicas); Gonzalo Riadi (Center of Bioinformatics and Molecular Simulation and Universidad de Talca, Engineering School)

MA5 » Spinal Cord Regeneration in Xenopus: A Transcriptomics Analysis

Presenting Author: Dasfne Lee-Liu (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas)

Co-authors: Juan Larrain (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas) Leonardo Almonacid (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas); Mauricio Moreno (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas); Rosana Muñoz (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas); Marcia Gaete (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas); Francisco Melo (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas)

MA6 » High-resolution community genomics of a hypersaline microbial ecosytem

Presenting Author: Juan Ugalde (University of California, San Diego)

Co-authors: Sheilla Podell (University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography); Karla Heidelberg (University of Southern California, Department of Biological Sciences); Jill Banfield (University of California, Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences); Eric Allen (University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography)

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Poster Session I (Odd numbers)

Location: Central Square (ground floor)

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Meeting of SoIBio and FreeBIT/CYTED: Societies and Networks promoting Bioinformatics for Life Sciences and Biomedicine in IberoAmerica.

Location: Sala Colorada (ground floor)

Day 4: Tuesday - March 20, 2012
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM Main Conference Registration

SESSION III. Macromolecule Structure/Function Prediction.

Chair of Session: Diego Ferreiro (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Location: Auditorium Juan Francisco Fresno (ground floor)

9:00 AM - 9:40 AM Keynote Lecture V: "Amazing Protein Folds"
Manfred Sippl. University of Salzburg, Austria.
9:40 AM - 10:30 AM Oral Presentations TM1-TM3

TM1 » Modeling proteins using supersecondary structure library and NMR chemical shifts

Presenting Author: Andras Fiser (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)

Co-authors: Vilas Menon (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Systems and Computational Biology); Joseph Dybas (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Systems and Computational Biology)

TM2 » Using correlation data and network decomposition to obtain sub-class determinants in protein families

Presenting Author: Lucas Bleicher (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)

Co-authors: Richard Garratt (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Instituto de Fisica de Sao Carlos); Ney Lemke (Universidade Estadual de Sao Paulo, Departamento de Fisica e Biofisica, Botucatu)

TM3 » Evolution of linear motifs within the intrinsically disordered and globular domains of the papillomavirus E7 oncoprotein

Presenting Author: Lucia Chemes (Fundación Instituto Leloir IIBBA-CONICET)

Co-authors: Juliana Glavina (Protein Physiology Laboratory, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Departamento de Química Biológica); Julian Faivovich (División Herpetología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales); Leonardo Alonso (Fundacion Instituto Leloir , Buenos Aires Argentina, IIBBA-CONICET); Cristina Marino-Buslje (Fundacion Instituto Leloir, IIBBA CONICET, Buenos Aires Argentina, Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory); Gonzalo de Prat Gay (Fundacion Instituto Leloir IIBBA CONICET, Buenos AIres Argentina, Protein Structure-Function and Engineering Laboratory); Sanchez Ignacio (Protein Physiology Laboratory, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Departamento de Quimica Biologica)

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:40 AM Keynote Lecture VI: "Conformational diversity and the development of new tools in bioinformatics"
Gustavo Parisi. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina.
11:40 AM - 12:30 PM Oral Presentations TM4-TM6

TM4 » Cross talk between DNA and Transcription factors

Presenting Author: Matias Machado (Institut Pasteur de Montevideo)

Co-authors: Pablo Dans (Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Biomolecular Simulation Group); Sergio Pantano (Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Biomolecular Simulation Group)

TM5 » Standardized comparison of structural alignments of catalytic domains in DNA polymerases from different methods

Presenting Author: Alex Slater (Molecular Bioinformatics Laboratory, Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

Co-authors: Manfred Sippl (University of Salzburg); Francisco Melo (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Depto. Genética Molecular y Microbiología)

TM6 » A Multidisciplinary Strategy for Function Assignment: The Enzyme Function Initiative from a Bioinformatics Perspective

Presenting Author: Daniel Almonacid (University of California)

Co-authors: Shoshana Brown (University of California San Francisco, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences); Patricia Babbitt (University of California San Francisco, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences)

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM

Business Presentation with free Lunch Sponsored by Roche (open to any interested people)

Location: Sala Colorada (ground floor)

SESSION IV. Computer Aided Drug Design and Docking/Molecular Dynamics Simulations.

Chair of Session: Tomás Pérez-Acle (Universidad de Chile, Chile)

Location: Auditorium Juan Francisco Fresno (ground floor)

2:00 PM - 2:40 PM Keynote Lecture VII: "Coarse-Grain methods for molecular dynamics simulations: Actually bridging the gap between simulations and biological scales"
Sergio Pantano. Instituto Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay.
2:40 PM - 3:30 PM Oral Presentations TA1-TA3

TA1 » Confidence Assessment of Candidate Drug Property Predictions by Subspace Mapping Methods

Presenting Author: Axel Soto (Universidad Nacional del Sur)

Co-authors: Ignacio Ponzoni (Universidad Nacional del Sur) Gustavo Vazquez (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Laboratory of Research and Development in Scientific Computing (LIDeCC)); Marc Strickert (Siegen University, Institute for Vision and Graphics); Ignacio Ponzoni (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Laboratory of Research and Development in Scientific Computing (LIDeCC))

TA2 » Docking Studies of a New Series of Analgesic and Anti-inflammatory Compounds (NSAIDs) with Cyclooxygenase

Presenting Author: Lucas Saraiva (Federal University of Minas Gerais)

Co-authors: Ihosvany Camps (Federal University of Alfenas, Department of Exact Science); Raquel Melo-Minardi (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Department of Computer Science ); Marcia Veloso (Federal University of Alfenas, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science); Rodrigo Sailva (Federal University of São Carlos, Department of Chemistry)

TA3 » Desintegrin-like domains in computer aided drug design of integrin-specific inhibitors

Presenting Author: Jorge H. Fernandez (State University of North Fluminense)

Co-authors: Jorge Fernandez (State University of North Fluminense) Monika A. Coronado (UNESP-RP, Depto. de Física); Ana T.R. Vasconcelos (LNCC, BioInfo); Monica Lopes-Ferreira (Butantan Institute, LETA); Wilson Savino (Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Laboratory of Thymus Research)

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:40 PM Keynote Lecture VIII: "Molecular Simulation of Non-equilibrium Systems: The Dance of ions across the membrane"
Danilo González. Universidad Andres Bello, Chile.
4:40 PM - 5:30 PM Oral Presentations TA4-TA6

TA4 » Using Computer Simulations to Understand Enzyme Mechanism: Application to Mycobacterium tuberculosis CYP121 Unusual Reaction

Presenting Author: Victoria Dumas (University of Buenos Aires)

Co-authors: Adrián Turjanski (University of Buenos Aires, Química Inorganica); Lucas Defelipe (University of Buenos Aires, Química Biologica); Marcelo Martí (University of Buenos Aires, Química Inorgánica)

TA5 » Topological constraints and challenges imposed by knots in proteins

Presenting Author: César Ramírez (University of Chile)

Co-authors: Jeffrey K. Noel (University of California San Diego, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics); Mauricio Baez (University of Chile, Department of Biology)

TA6 » Combined structure- and ligand-based virtual screening in the search of novel 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase inhibitors for the treatment of metabolic syndrome

Presenting Author: Carlos Lagos (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

Co-authors: Andrea Vecchiola (P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory); Fidel Allende (P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Clinical Laboratory); Carolina Valdivia (P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory); Cristobal A. Fuentes (P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory); Sandra Solari (P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Clinical Laboratory); Carmen Campino (P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory); Rene Baudrand (P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory); Cristian A. Carvajal (P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory); Carlos E. Fardella (P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory); Mariana Cifuentes (Universidad de Chile, Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA))

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Poster Session II (Even numbers)

Location: Central Square (ground floor)

Day 5: Wednesday - March 21, 2012

SESSION V. Biomedicine and Immunoinformatics.

Chair of Session: Alexis Kalergis (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

Location: Auditorium Juan Francisco Fresno (ground floor)

9:00 AM - 9:40 AM Keynote Lecture IX: "Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource Program: Proving Intuitive Access To Comprehensive Epitope Data And Tools"
Alessandro Sette. La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, USA.
9:40 AM - 10:30 AM Oral Presentations WM1-WM3

WM1 » MHCcluster, and method for functional clustering of MHC molecules

Presenting Author: Morten Nielsen (Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, BioCentrum, DTU)

Co-authors: Ole Lund (Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, BioCentrum, DTU, Department of Systems biology); Claus Lundegaard (Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, BioCentrum, DTU, Department of Systems biology)

WM2 » A step towards pan-specific prediction methods for MHC class II molecules: a projection of HLA-DR on to HLA-DP and HLA-DQ

Presenting Author: Edita Karosiene (Technical University of Denmark)

Co-authors: Morten Nielsen (Technical University of Denmark, Department of Systems Biology)

WM3 » Systematic prediction of ligand-receptor pair across the immunoglobulin superfamily using a novel sequence homology measure

Presenting Author: Eng Hui Yap (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)

Co-authors: Andras Fiser (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Systems and Computational Biology); Tyler Rosche (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Systems and Computational Biology)

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:40 AM Keynote Lecture X: "Using Genomics to Improve Response to Neoadjuvant Therapy in Patients with Rectal Cancer"
Anamaría Camargo. Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Brazil.
11:40 AM - 12:30 PM Oral Presentations WM4-WM6

WM4 » Common features in damaged DNA detection

Presenting Author: Juan José Cifuentes (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

Co-authors: Francisco Melo (Molecular Bioinformatics Laboratory, Depto. Genética Molecular y Microbiología. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

WM5 » A bioinformatics strategy for the design of diagnostic epitope discovery tools: first generation peptide microarrays for Chagas Disease

Presenting Author: Santiago Carmona (Universidad Nacional de San Martín)

Co-authors: Fernán Agüero (Universidad Nacional de San Martín) Paula Sartor (UBA, Dept. of Microbiology-Fac.Med.); Maria Susana Leguizamón (UBA, Dept. of Microbiology-Fac.Med.); Oscar Campetella (UNSAM, IIB); Fernán Agüero (UNSAM, IIB)

WM6 » Annotation of putative AraC/XylS-family transcription factors of known structure but unknown function

Presenting Author: Andreas Schüller (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

Co-authors: Alex W. Slater (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Depto. Genética Molecular y Microbiología); Tomás Norambuena (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Depto. Genética Molecular y Microbiología); Juan José Cifuentes (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Depto. Genética Molecular y Microbiología); Francisco Melo (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Depto. Genética Molecular y Microbiología)

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM

The ISCB Open Member Meeting (open to any interested people)

Location: Sala Colorada (ground floor)

SESSION VI. Functional Genomics and Systems Biology.

Chair of Session: Rodrigo Gutiérrez (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

Location: Auditorium Juan Francisco Fresno (ground floor)

2:00 PM - 2:40 PM Keynote Lecture XI: "Using ‘omics’ data to study regulator-target interactions and organizational principles in networks"
Yves van de Peer. University of Ghent, Belgium.
2:40 PM - 3:30 PM Oral Presentations WA1-WA3

WA1 » Evolution of domain architectures and catalytic functions of enzymes in metabolic systems

Presenting Author: Chen-Hsiang Yeang (Academia Sinica)

Co-authors: Summit Suen (Academia Sinica, Institute of Statistical Science); Henry Horng-Shing Lu (National Chiao-Tung University, Institute of Statistics)

WA2 » Unveiling combinatorial regulation through the combination of ChIP information and in silico cis-regulatory module detection

Presenting Author: Kathleen Marchal (Ghent University)

Co-authors: Hong Sun (K.U.Leuven, Microbial and Molecular Systems); Tias Guns (K.U.Leuven, Computer Science); Ana Carolina Fierro (K.U.Leuven, Computer Science); Lieven Thorrez (K.U.Leuven, Interdepartmental Stem Cell Institute); Siegfried Nijssen (K.U.Leuven, Computer science)

WA3 » LitProf – Gene Classifier: A text-mining gene function predictor for prokaryotes

Presenting Author: Roney Coimbra (FIOCRUZ-Minas)

Co-authors: Raul Torrieri (FIOCRUZ-Minas, Center for Excellence in Bioinformatics); Francislon Oliveira (FIOCRUZ-Minas, Center for Excellence in Bioinformatics); Guilherme Oliveira (FIOCRUZ-Minas, Center for Excellence in Bioinformatics)

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:40 PM Keynote Lecture XII: "On the evolution of PPI networks"
Sandro José de Souza. Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Brazil.
4:40 PM - 5:30 PM Oral Presentations WA4-WA6

WA4 » Discriminative local subspaces in gene expression data for effective gene function prediction

Presenting Author: Tomás Puelma (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

Co-authors: Rodrigo Gutiérrez (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile); Alvaro Soto (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Computer Science); Rodrigo Gutierrez (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology)

WA5 » The just-in-time expression of yeast ribosomal proteins

Presenting Author: Andrzej Kudlicki (University of Texas Medical Branch)

Co-authors: Xueling Li (University of Texas Medical Branch, Institute of Translational Science); Gang Chen (Central South University, Computer Science)

WA6 » Deciphering human protein interactome using structural complexes

Presenting Author: Anna Panchenko (National Institutes of Health)

Co-authors: Manoj Tyagi (National Institutes of Health, NCBI); Kosuke Hashimoto (RIKEN, RIKEN); Benjamin Shoemaker (NIH, NCBI); Stefan Wuchty (NIH, NCBI)

5:30 PM - 6:00 PM Awards Ceremony
6:00 PM – 6:30 PM Closing Remarks
7:00 PM – 11:30 PM

Conference Banquet

Location: Castillo Hidalgo, Cerro Santa Lucía, Santiago [SEE MAP HERE]

One day satellite Workshops and Round Tables
Day 6: Thursday - March 22, 2012

SESSION VII. WorkShops on Next Generation Sequencing Technologies and GRID Computing.

Chair of Session: Romilio Espejo (Omics Solutions, Chile)

Location: Auditorium Aula Magna Eleodoro Matte Ossa (second floor)

10:00 AM - 11:15 AM "Ion Torrent – Open, Accessible, and Enabling"
Matt Dyer. Life Technologies, USA.
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Coffee Break
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM "Introducing GS FLX+ System"
Xuemin Liu. 454 Sequencing/Roche, USA.
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM "Optimization of bioinformatics applications to be executed on GRID platforms"
Manuel A. Rodríguez-Pascual and Rafael Mayo-García (CIEMAT, Spain; SoIBio, CYTED and FreeBIT).
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM Coffee Break

SESSION VIII. Round Tables on Bioinformatics Research, Training and Education in Iberoamerica.

Chair of Session: Danilo González (Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile)

Location: Auditorium Aula Magna Eleodoro Matte Ossa (second floor)

3:20 PM – 4:20 PM "Bioinformatics Education in Iberoamerica"
Alejandra Medina-Rivera and Juan Pablo Bustamante (SoIBio Student Council), Daniel Almonacid and Priscila Grynberg (ISCB Student Council).
4:20 PM – 4:40 PM Coffee Break
4:40 PM – 5:40 PM "Bioinformatics Research and Training in Iberoamerica"
Guilherme de Oliveira (Brazil), Fernán Aguero (Argentina), Javier de las Rivas (Spain), Julio Collado-Vides (México), Allan Orozco (Costa Rica) and Francisco Melo (Chile).