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ISMB ECCB 2004
Bioinformatics Journal
APBC2003
APBC2004
SIGSIM: Systems Biology of E.coli

 

 

Detailed Agenda

Friday 27 June 2003
Time
Location
 Event
0800 - 1700
Main Foyer
 SIG Registration
0815 - 0900
TBD
 Breakfast
0900 - 2100
TBD
 SIG: Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) (more information)
 0900 - 2100
 TBD
 SIG: Biopathways (more information)
0900 - 1730
TBD
 SIG: Text-Mining (more information)

Saturday 28 June 2003
Time
Location
 Event
0800 - 1200
Main Foyer
 SIG Registration
0815 - 0900
TBD
 Breakfast
0900 - 2100
TBD
 SIG: Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) (more information)
 0900 - 2100
 TBD
 SIG: Biopathways (more information)
0900 - 1730
TBD
 SIG: Bio-Ontologies (more information)
0900 - 1730
TBD
 SIG: WEB 03 (more information)
1400 - 1630
Main Foyer
 Ice Breaker – Orienteering Event (more information)
1400 - 1700
Main Foyer
 ISMB 2003 Registration

Sunday 29 June 2003
Time
Location
 Event
0700 - 1830
Main Foyer
 Registration
0745 - 0830
Mezzanine Level
Breakfast
TUTORIALS
0830 - 1230
Plaza 3
 Bioethics for Bioinformatics
Wayne Hall (download the abstract as a pdf)
Plaza 5
 Introducing Workflow Integration of BioEnterprise Applications on a Java Platform
Tin Wee Tan (download the abstract as a pdf)
Mezzanine 1
 Statistical Issues in Microarray Data Analysis
Mark Reimers (download the abstract as a pdf)
Mezzanine 3
 Analysis of Regulatory Sequences Controlling the Expression of Gene Network
Wyeth Wasserman (download the abstract as a pdf)
Plaza 4
 Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolutionary Analysis
Graziano Pesole (download the abstract as a pdf)
Plaza 1
 Molecular Modelling: Building a 3D Protein Structure from its Sequence
Shoba Ranganathan (download the abstract as a pdf)
Mezzanine 2
Mining the Biomedical Literature Using Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing Techniques
Ronen Feldman (download the abstract as a pdf)
Plaza 2
 The EM Algorithm and Some of its Applications in Molecular Biology
Frederique Galisson (download the abstract as a pdf)
1015 - 1030
TBD
 Coffee Break
1100 - 1800
M5 & M6
 ISCB Board Meeting
1235 - 1330
Mezzanine Level
Lunch
TUTORIALS
1330 - 1730
Plaza 2
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Techniques for Bioinformatics
Ajit Narayanan (download the abstract as a pdf)
Plaza 5
 Computational Approaches to Detecting Gene-Gene Interactions
Jason Moore (download the abstract as a pdf)
Mezzanine 1
 Data warehousing in molecular biology
Vladimir Brusic (download the abstract as a pdf)
Plaza 1
 Microarray Data Normalisation and Transformation
John Quackenbush (download the abstract as a pdf)
Mezzanine 2
 Extracting Biological Information From System-Scale Protein Interactome Data
Sudir Sahasrabudhe (download the abstract as a pdf)
Plaza 4
Molecular Evolution: Evolutionary Dynamics and Molecular Biophysics
David Pollock (download the abstract as a pdf)
Plaza 3
 Training and Support for Bioinformatics – Theoretical and Practical Aspects
Eitan Rubin (download the abstract as a pdf)
1800 - 2030
Main Foyer
 Welcome Reception in Trade Exhibition Hall

Monday 30 June 2003
Time
Location
 Event
0730 - 1800
Main Foyer
 Registration and Information Desk Open
0745 - 0830
Trade Exhibition Hall
 Breakfast
0830
Great Hall 1& 2
 Hon. Paul Lucas MP Minister for Innovation and Information Economy
0835
Great Hall 1& 2
 Opening Remarks, Gene Myers and Mark Ragan, Co-Chairs ISMB 2003
0840
Great Hall 1& 2
 Remarks by ISCB, Michael Gribskov (ISCB President)
Phylogeny and Genome Rearrangements
0845
Great Hall 1& 2
 Detection and Validation of Single Gene Inversions
Jean-Francois Lefebvre, Nadia El-Mabrouk, Elizabeth Tillier, David Sankoff [Download Abstract as a PDF]
0910
Great Hall 1& 2
 Fast Identification and Statistical Evaluation of Segmental Homologies in Comparative Maps
Peter P. Calabrese, Sugata Chakravarty, Todd J. Vision [Download Abstract as a PDF]
0935
Great Hall 1& 2
 Glocal Alignment: Finding Rearrangements During Alignment
Michael Brudno, Sanket Malde, Alexander Poliakov, Chuong Do, Olivier Couronne, Inna Dubchak, Serafim Batzoglou [Download Abstract as a PDF]
1000
Great Hall 1& 2
 Bayesian Gene/Species Tree Reconciliation and Orthology Analysis Using MCMC
Lars Arvestad, Ann-Charlotte Berglund, Jens Lagergren and Bengt Sennblad [Download Abstract as a PDF]
1025 - 1055
Trade Exhibition Hall
 Morning Tea
1100 - 2030
Mezzanine M2
 Software Demos - Industry (click here to access the software demo schedule)
1100 - 2030
Mezzanine M1
 Software Demos - Non-profit (click here to access the software demo schedule)
Phylogeny and Genome Rearrangements
1055
 Great Hall 1& 2 Scaling up Accurate Phylogenetic Reconstruction from Gene-Order Data
Jijun Tang and Bernard Moret [Download Abstract as a PDF]
1120
 Great Hall 1& 2 Deriving Phylogenetic Trees from the Similarity Analysis of Metabolic Pathways
Maureen Heymans and Ambuj Singh [Download Abstract as a PDF]
1145
 Great Hall 1& 2 Identifying functional elements in the human genome by tracing the evolutionary history of the bases: a key challenge for comparative genomics
Dr David Haussler Howard Hughes Medical Centre, California, USA
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1230-1400
Trade Exhibition Hall
 Lunch
1230-1400
M3 & M4
 ISCB Business Meeting
1230-1400
TBD
 Birds of a Feather Meetings
1400
Great Hall 1& 2
 Hon. Peter Beattie MP Premier of Queensland and Minister for Trade
1405
Great Hall 1& 2
 Programming of the autopoietic development of complex organisms: the hidden layer of noncoding RNA
Professor John Mattick Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Qld, Australia
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1445 - 1515
Trade Exhibition Hall
 Afternoon Tea
Expression Arrays and Networks
1515
Great Hall 1& 2
 Using Hidden Markov Models to Analyze Gene Expression Time Course Data
Alexander Schliep, Alexander Schonhuth, Christine Steinhoff [Download Abstract as a PDF]
1540
Great Hall 1& 2
 Combining Multiple Microarray Studies and Modeling Interstudy Variation
Jung Kyoon Choi, Ung Sik Yu, Sangsoo Kim, Ook Joon Yoo [Download Abstract as a PDF]
1605
Great Hall 1& 2
 Gene Structure-Based Splice Variant Deconvolution Using a Microarray Platform
Hui Wang, Earl Hubbell, Jing-shan Hu, Gangwu Mei, Melissa Cline, Gang Lu, Tyson Clark, Michael A. Siani-Rose, Manuel Ares, David C. Kulp and David Haussler [Download Abstract as a PDF]
1630
Great Hall 1& 2
 Discovering Molecular Pathways from Protein Interaction and Gene Expression Data
Eran Segal, Haidong Wang, Daphe Koller [Download Abstract as a PDF]
1655
Great Hall 1& 2
 Chain Functions and Scoring Functions in Genetic Networks
Ron Shamir and Irit Gat Viks [Download Abstract as a PDF]
1725 - 2030
Trade Exhibition Hall
 Industry Night Reception and Poster Presentations 1

Tuesday 1 July 2003
Time
Location
 Event
0730 - 1800
Main Foyer
 Registration and Information Desk Open
0800 - 0845
Trade Exhibition Hall
 Breakfast
0845
Great Hall 1& 2
 Reconstructing Genetic Networks
Professor Ron Shamir, Tel Aviv University, Isreal
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0930
Great Hall 1& 2
 ISMB ECCB 2004
0900 - 1830
Mezzanine M2
 Software Demos - Industry (click here to access the software demo schedule)
0900 - 1830
Mezzanine M1
 Software Demos - Non-profit (click here to access the software demo schedule)
0945 - 1015
Trade Exhibition Hall
 Morning Tea
Predicting Clinical Outcomes
1015
Great Hall 1& 2
 Predicting Phenotype from Patterns of Annotation
Oliver King, Jeff Lee, Aimee Dudley, Daniel Janse, George Church, and Frederick Roth [Download Abstract as a PDF]
1040
Great Hall 1& 2
 Methods for Optimising Antiviral Combination Therapies
Niko Beerenwinkel, Thomas Lengauer, Martin Daumer, Rolf Kaiser, Hauke Walter,Klaus Korn, Daniel Hoffman, Joachim Selbig [Download Abstract as a PDF]
1105
Great Hall 1& 2

Patching and Painting the Human Genome
William James Kent University of California Santa Cruz, California, USA
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1230-1400
Trade Exhibition Hall
 Lunch
1205 - 1320
TBD
 Birds of a Feather Meetings
SIG Meeting Reports
1320
Mezzanine M3 & M4
 BOSC
1335
Mezzanine M3 & M4
 BioPathways
1430
Mezzanine M3 & M4
 Text Mining
1535
Mezzanine M3 & M4
 BioOntologies
1610
Mezzanine M3 & M4
 WEB 03
Short Papers
1320
Great Hall 1& 2
 Widespread Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay of Normal and Disease Genes
Richard E. Green, Benjamin P. Lewis, R. Tyler Hillman, Marcho Blanchette, Liana F. Lareau, Aaron T. Garnett, Donald C. Rio, and Steven E. Brenner [Download Abstract as a PDF]
1335
Great Hall 1& 2
 Skew in CG Content Near the Transcription Start Site in Arabidopsis Thaliana
Tatiana Tatarinova, Vyacheslav Brover, Maxim Troukhan, Nickolai Alexandrov [Download Abstract as a PDF]
1350
Great Hall 1& 2
 A New Approach to the Annotation of Bacterial Genomes Using Phylogenomic Profiles
F. Enault, K. Suhre, C. Abergel, O. Poirot, J-M Claverie [Download Abstract as a PDF]
1405
Great Hall 1& 2
 GeneLoc: Exon-based Integration of Human Genome Maps
Naomi Rosen, Vered Chalifa-Caspi, Orit Shmueli, Avital Adato, Michal Lapidot, Julie Stampnitzky, Marilyn Safran, Doron Lancet [Download Abstract as a PDF]
1420
Great Hall 1& 2
 Linking Genotype to Phenotype: the International Rice Information System (IRIS)
Richard Bruskiewich, Alexander Cosico, William Eusebio,Arllet Portugal, Luralyn Ramos, Graham McLaren [Download Abstract as a PDF]
1435
Great Hall 1& 2
 Talisman - Rapid Application Development for the Grid
Tom Oinn [Download Abstract as a PDF]
1450
Great Hall 1& 2
 myGrid: Personalised Bioinformatics on the Information Grid
Robert Stevens, Alan Robinson, Carole Goble [Download Abstract as a PDF]
1505 - 1535
Trade Exhibition Hall
 Afternoon Tea
Short Papers
1535
Great Hall 1& 2
 GENIA Corpus - A Semantically Annotated Corpus for Bio-Textmining
Jin-Dong Kim, Tomoko Ohta, Yuka Tateisi, Jun'ichi Tsujii [Download Abstract as a PDF]
1550
Great Hall 1& 2
 Combining NLP and Probabilistic Categorisation for Document andTerm Selection for SWISS-PROT Medical Annotation
Pavel B. Dobrokhotov, Cyril Goutte, Anne-Lise Veuthey, Eric Gaussier [Download Abstract as a PDF]
1605