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Thursday – December 10, 2009
11:00 am – 1:00 pm Registration
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Keynote 1
Polypharmacology: Drug Discovery in the Era of Genomics and Proteomics


Philip E. Bourne, PhD Professor
Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, UCSD
Associate Director, RCSB Protein Data Bank
Editor in Chief, PLoS Computational Biology
1:45 pm – 1:55 pm Oral Presentation 1
Helping Biologists Understand their Data: An Update on the Hanalyzer System
Presenter:
William A. Baumgartner, Jr., University of Colorado, Denver
Authors: William A. Baumgartner Jr., Hannah Tipney, Lawrence E. Hunter
1:55 pm – 2:05 pm Oral Presentation 2
Thermodynamics-inspired ncRNA Search
Presenter:
Jennifer Smith, Boise State University
Authors: Jennifer Smith, Pamila Ward
2:05 pm – 2:15 pm Oral Presentation 3
Algorithm to Improve Gene Consistency Across Bacterial Genomes
Presenter:
Judith D. Cohn, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Authors: Judith D. Cohn, Michael E. Wall, John Dunbar
2:15 pm – 2:25 pm Oral Presentation 4
A Genome-wide Analysis of Poised Promoters in Bacteria
Presenter:
Marko Djordjevic, Arkansas State University and The Arkansas Bioscience Institute
Authors:
Marko Djordjevic
2:25 pm – 2:35 pm Oral Presentation 5
Structure-Based Prediction of DNA Binding Sites for Families of Transcription Factors

Presenter: Julia Ponomarenko, University of California, San Diego
Authors: Julia Ponomarenko
2:35 pm – 2:45 pm Oral Presentation 6
Genome-wide Discovery of Human Heart Enhancers

Presenter: Ivan Ovcharenko, NIH
Authors: Leelavati Narlikar, Noboru Sakabe, Alexander Blanski, Fabio Arimura, Marcelo Nobrega, Ivan Ovcharenko
2:45 pm – 3:00 pm Break (15 minutes)
3:00 pm – 3:10 pm Oral Presentation 7
Development of Methods for Integrating Diverse Sources of Genome-Scale Data
Presenter: Daniel Dvorkin, University of Colorado, Denver
Authors: Daniel Dvorkin, Katerina Kechris
3:10 pm – 3:20 pm Oral Presentation 8
Visualizing Genomic Sequences in 2D

Presenter: Josiah Seaman, Colorado State University
Authors: Josiah Seaman
3:20 pm – 3:30 pm Oral Presentation 9
Automated Inference of Molecular Mechanisms of Disease from Amino Acid Substitutions
Presenter:
Biao Li, Indiana University
Authors:
Biao Li, Vidhya G. Krishnan, Matthew E. Mort, Fuxiao Xin, Kishore K. Kamati, David N. Cooper, Sean D. Mooney, Predrag Radivojac
3:30 pm – 3:40 pm Oral Presentation 10
A User Study of Attribute Visualization Tools and Their Role in Understanding Biological Networks
Presenter:
Hande Kucuk, Eastern Michigan University
Authors:
Hande Kucuk, Benjamin J. Keller, Terry Weymouth, Barbara Mirel
3:40 pm – 3:50 pm Oral Presentation 11
NeuroIE: Extracting Neuroimaging Study Results from the Literature
Presenter:
Yong Gao, Mass General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Authors:
Yong Gao, Dave Kennedy
3:50 pm – 4:00 pm Oral Presentation 12
Analysis of a Local Huntingtin Protein Interaction Network
Presenter:
Corey Powell, Buck Institute for Age Research
Authors:
Corey Powell, Robert Hughes, Cendrine Tourette, Russell Bell, Sean Mooney
4:00 pm – 4:10 pm Oral Presentation 13
In Silico Functional Profiling of Human Disease-Associated and Polymorphic Amino Acid Substitutions
Presenter:
Vidhya G. Krishnan, Buck Institute for Age Research
Authors:
Matthew Mort, Uday S. Evani, Vidhya G. Krishnan, Kishore K. Kamati Peter H. Baenziger, Anghuman Bagchi, Brandon Peters, Rakesh Sathyesh, Biao Li, Yanan Sun, Bin Xue, Nigam Shah, Maricel Kann, David N. Cooper, Predrag Radivojac, Sean D. Mooney
4:10 pm – 4:25 pm Break (15 minutes)
4:25 pm – 5:10 pm Keynote 2
Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge Discovery in Cancer Metastasis

Anna Divoli, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Medicine and Institute of Genomics and Systems Biology The University of Chicago
5:10 pm – 5:20 pm Oral Presentation 14
Accelerating Candidate Gene Discovery through Ontological Indexing of Large Scale Data Repositories
Presenter:
Simon Twigger, Medical College of Wisconsin
Authors:
Simon Twigger, Joey Geiger, Jennifer Smit
5:20 pm – 5:30 pm Oral Presentation 15
Knowledge Network Approach: Pathways and Drugs
Presenter:
Nikolai Daraselia, Ariadne
Authors:
Nikolai Daraselia, Ekaterina Kotelnikova, Anton Yuryev
5:30 pm – 5:40 pm Oral Presentation 16
Can We Accurately Determine the Fittest Genes in Nature
Presenter:
Ramy K. Aziz, San Diego State University
Authors:
Ramy K. Aziz, Mya Breitbart, Robert Edwards
5:40 pm – 5:50 pm Oral Presentation 17
Assessing Models of Protein Interaction Network Evolution
Presenter:
Todd A. Gibson, University of Colorado, Denver
Authors:
Todd A. Gibson, Debra S. Goldberg
5:50 pm – 6:00 pm Oral Presentation 18
Gene and Genome Trees Conflict at Many Levels
Presenter:
Leanne S. Haggerty, NUI Maynooth
Authors:
Leanne S. Haggerty, Fergal J. Martin, David A. Fitzpatrick, James O. McInerney
6:00 pm – 6:10 pm Oral Presentation 19
Protein-protein Interactions are Driven by Functional Evolution
Presenter:
Yiqiang Zhao, Buck Institute for Age Research
Authors:
Yiqiang Zhao, Sean Mooney
6:10 pm – 6:20 pm Oral Presentation 20
Evolutionary Study and Prediction of Protein-protein Interactions in Chromatin Modification Complexes
Presenter:
Xuejian Xiong, Hospital for Sick Children
Authors:
Xuejian Xiong, Tuan On, Shuye Pu, Andrei Turinsky, Yunchen Gong, Andrew Emili, Zhaolei Zhang, Jack Greenblatt, Shoshana J. Wodak, John Parkinson
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm ***This dinner event is sold out.***
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Friday – December 11, 2009
9:00 am – 9:45 am Keynote 3
Spanning Scales - The Combination of Mathematics and High Performance Computing impacts Computational Biology

Kirk E. Jordan, PhD, Emerging Solution Executive
Computational Science Center
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
9:45 am – 9:55 am Oral Presentation 21
An Individual Based Modelling Approach to Studying the Evolution of Mate Choice Strategy
Presenter:
Robert Williamson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Authors:
Robert Williamson
9:55 am – 10:05 am Oral Presentation 22
MtHaplogroups: A Curated Web Resource for Mitochondrial Variation
Presenter:
Michael V. Osier, Rochester Institute of Technology
Authors:
Kyle Dewey, Eric Stevens, Dina L. Newman, Michael V. Osier
10:05 am – 10:15 am Oral Presentation 23
Posterior-Predictive Detection Of Molecular Co-Evolution Using Phylogenetically-Integrated Mutual Information
Presenter:
A.P. Jason de Koning, University of Colorado, Denver
Authors:
A.P. Jason de Koning, Todd A. Castoe, Hyun-min Kim, David D. Pollock
10:15 am – 10:25 am Oral Presentation 24
Bioinformatics Characterization Of The Plasmodium Glutathione S-Transferase
Presenter:
Emilee Colón, University of Puerto Rico
Authors:
Emilee Colón, Adelfa Serrano, Hugh Nicholas Jr., Troy Wymore, Alexander Ropelewski, Ricardo González Méndez
10:25 am – 10:35 am Oral Presentation 25
Leveraging Existing Biological Knowledge in Genome Wide Association Studies
Presenter:
Ronald Schuyler, University of Colorado, Denver
Authors:
Ronald Schuyler, Lawrence E. Hunter, Deborah Glueck
10:35 am – 10:45 am Oral Presentation 26
Evaluating Microbial Diversity and Adaptation: New Opportunities for Insight in a Data Rich World
Presenter:
Catherine Lozupone, University of Colorado, Boulder
Authors:
Catherine Lozupone, Rob Knight
10:45 am – 11:00 am Break (15 minutes)
11:00 am – 11:10 am Oral Presentation 27
Wow! That's Really Interesting!
Presenter:
Hannah Tipney, University of Colorado, Boulder
Authors:
Hannah Tipney, Lawrence E. Hunter
11:10 am – 11:20 am Oral Presentation 28
Global Optimization in Nonlinear Models: Optimization and Evolution in Metabolic Networks
Presenter:
Albert Sorribas, CMB - IRBLLEIDA - University of Lleida
Authors:
Albert Sorribas, Carlos Pozo, Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez, Laureano Jimenez, Rui Alves
11:20 am – 11:30 am Oral Presentation 29
Virus Discovery by Deep Sequencing and Assembly of Virus-derived Small Silencing RNAs
Presenter:
Qingfa Wu, University of California, Riverside
Authors:
Qingfa Wu, Yingjun Luo, Rui Lu, Nelson Lau, Eric C. Lai, Wan-Xiang Li, Shou-Wei Ding
11:30 am – 11:40 am Oral Presentation 30
Prediction of Protein Protein Interaction Sites and Their Impact on Genetic Disease
Presenter:
Angshuman Bagchi, Buck Institute for Age Research
Authors:
Angshuman Bagchi, Eunseog Youn, Matthew E. Mort, David N. Cooper, Sean D. Mooney
11:40 am – 11:50 am Oral Presentation 31
Optimal Nearest Shrunken Centroids Method for High-dimensional Data Classification
Presenter:
Tiejun Tong, University of Colorado, Boulder
Authors:
Tiejun Tong, Herbert Pang
11:50 am – 12:00 pm Oral Presentation 32
Retrobiosynthesis: Searching Backwards, Looking Forwards
Presenter:
Dan McShan, University of Colorado, Denver
Authors:
Dan McShan
12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Break
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm Keynote 4 (Joint Keynote)
Strategies for Elaborating Cognitive Requirements of Bioinformatics Tools


Ben Keller, PhD, Associate Professor
Computer Science Department
Eastern Michigan University

and

Barbara Mirel
Associate Research Scientist
School of Education, University of Michigan
NCIBI Core Director of Evaluation, Education and Training
4:45 pm – 4:55 pm Oral Presentation 33
Experiments with Biological Concept Recognition Tools
Presenter:
Karin Verspoor, University of Colorado, Denver
Authors:
Karin Verspoor, Kevin B. Cohen, Helen Johnson, Christophe Roeder, Cesar Mejia, William Baumgartner Jr., Lawrence E. Hunter
4:55 pm – 5:05 pm Oral Presentation 34
Test Suite Design for Biomedical Ontology Concept Recognition Systems
Presenter:
K. Bretonnel Cohen, University of Colorado, Denver
Authors:
K. Bretonnel Cohen, Karin Verspoor, Christophe Roeder, William A. Baumgartner Jr., Lawrence E. Hunter
5:05 pm – 5:15 pm Oral Presentation 35
Predicting Protein Linkages in Bacteria: Which Method is Best Depends on Task
Presenter:
Anis Karimpour-Fard, University of Colorado, Denver
Authors:
Anis Karimpour-Fard, Sonia M. Leach, Ryan T. Gill, Lawrence E. Hunter
5:15 pm – 5:25 pm Oral Presentation 36
A Metagenomic Study of a Microbial Mat in a Hawaiian Lava Cave
Presenter:
Gayle K. Philip, NASA Astrobiology Institute
Authors:
Gayle K. Philip, Mark V. Brown, Stuart P. Donachie
5:25 pm – 5:35 pm Oral Presentation 37
Mobile Metagenomics: Annotating DNA Sequences On A Cell Phone
Presenter:
Josh Hoffman, San Diego State University
Authors:
Josh Hoffman, Daniel Cuevas, Robert Edwards
5:35 pm – 5:45 pm Oral Presentation 38
The Colorado Richly Annotated Full-Text (CRAFT) Corpus: A Resource for BioNLP Research
Presenter:
Michael Bada, University of Colorado, Denver
Authors:
Michael Bada, Miriam Eckert, Kristin Garcia, Donald Evans, Dmitry Sitnikov, William A. Baumgartner, Jr., Philip V. Ogren, Arrick Lanfranchi, Amanda Howard, William Corvey, Nianwen Xue, Kevin B. Cohen, Karin Verspoor, Judith A. Blake, Martha Palmer
5:45 pm – 8:00 pm Reception and Poster Session
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Saturday – December 12, 2009
9:00 am – 9:45 am Keynote 5
ChEMBL - Large-scale Open Access Data for Drug Discovery

John P. Overington, PhD CChem.
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
9:45 am – 9:55 am Oral Presentation 39
Subgraphs of Protein-protein Interaction Networks with High Connectivity
Presenter:
Suzanne Gallagher, University of Colorado, Boulder
Authors:
Suzanne Gallagher, Debra Goldberg
9:55 am – 10:05 am Oral Presentation 40
TreeHugger: A New Test for Enrichment of Gene Ontology Terms
Presenter:
Daniel Jupiter, Texas A&M Health Science Center
Authors:
Daniel Jupiter, Jessica Sahutoglu, Vincent VanBuren
10:05 am – 10:15 am Oral Presentation 41
Pattern-Based Extraction of Argumentation from the Scientific Literature
Presenter:
Elizabeth White, University of Colorado, Boulder
Authors:
Elizabeth White
10:15 am – 10:25 am Oral Presentation 42
Early Host Response During Influenza Infections
Presenter:
Christian V. Forst, University of Texas
Authors:
Christian V. Forst
10:25 am – 10:35 am Oral Presentation 43
Boolean Network Models of Human Aging
Presenter:
Michael Verdicchio, Arizona State University
Authors:
Michael Verdicchio, Seungchan Kim
10:35 am – 12:00 pm Poster Session
12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Break
4:00 pm – 4:10 pm Oral Presentation 44
Positive Selection and Functional Shift: Human Heme Peroxidase Case Study
Presenter:
Mary J. O'Connell, Dublin City University
Authors:
Noeleen B. Loughran, Brendan O'Connor, Ciaran O'Fagain, William M. Nauseef, Mary J. O'Connell
4:10 pm – 4:20 pm Oral Presentation 45
Delving into the Bacteriome:Protein-protein Interactions in E. coli
Presenter:
John Parkinson, Hospital for Sick Children
Authors:
Jose Peregrin-Alvarez, Xuejian Xiong, Chong Su, John Parkinson
4:20 pm – 4:30 pm Oral Presentation 46
Simplified Clustering with Dirichlet Process and Other Process Mixtures
Presenter:
Matthew Shotwell, Medical University of South Carolina
Authors:
Matthew Shotwell, M.S., Elizabeth Slate, Ph.D.
4:30 pm – 4:40 pm Oral Presentation 47
Real Time Metagenomics
Presenter:
Robert Edwards, San Diego State University
Authors:
Robert Edwards, Robert Olson, Terry Disz, Rick Stevens, Ross Overbeek
4:40 pm – 4:50 pm Oral Presentation 48
Structure Discovery in PPI Networks Using Pattern-Based Network Decomposition
Presenter:
Ying Liu, University of Texas, Dallas
Authors:
Ying Liu, Chengcheng Shen, Phil Bachman
4:50 pm – 5:00 pm Oral Presentation 49
Data Mining Over Directed Transcription Factor Networks
Presenter:
Rauf Malick, Bahria University
Authors:
Rauf Malick, Abdul Aziz, Mansoor Ahmed, Aysha Mazhar
5:00 pm – 5:45 pm Keynote 6
Informatics Challenges for Pharmacogenetic

Russ B. Altman, MD, PhD
Professor of Bioengineering Genetics, Medicine
(& Computer Science, by courtesy)
Chair, Bioengineering Director
Biomedical Informatics Training Program
Stanford University
5:45 pm Rocky '09 Closing Comments

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Thursday – December 10, 2009
Keynote 1 Polypharmacology: Drug Discovery in the Era of Genomics and Proteomics

Philip E. Bourne, PhD Professor
Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, UCSD
Associate Director, RCSB Protein Data Bank
Editor in Chief, PLoS Computational Biology
Oral Presentation 1 Helping Biologists Understand their Data: An Update on the Hanalyzer System
William A. Baumgartner, Jr., University of Colorado
Oral Presentation 2 Thermodynamics-inspired ncRNA Search
Jennifer Smith, Boise State University
Oral Presentation 3 Algorithm to Improve Gene Consistency Across Bacterial Genomes
Judith D. Cohn, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Oral Presentation 4 A Genome-wide Analysis of Poised Promoters in Bacteria
Marko Djordjevic, Arkansas State University and The Arkansas Bioscience Institute
Oral Presentation 5 Structure-Based Prediction of DNA Binding Sites for Families of Transcription Factors
Julia Ponomarenko, University of California, San Diego
Oral Presentation 6 Genome-wide Discovery of Human Heart Enhancers
Ivan Ovcharenko, NIH
Oral Presentation 7 Development of Methods for Integrating Diverse Sources of Genome-Scale Data
Daniel Dvorkin, University of Colorado, Denver
Oral Presentation 8 Visualizing Genomic Sequences in 2D
Josiah Seaman, Colorado State University
Oral Presentation 9 Automated Inference of Molecular Mechanisms of Disease from Amino Acid Substitutions
Biao Li, Indiana University
Oral Presentation 10 A User Study of Attribute Visualization Tools and Their Role in Understanding Biological Networks
Hande Kucuk, Eastern Michigan University
Oral Presentation 11 NeuroIE: Extracting Neuroimaging Study Results from the Literature
Yong Gao, Mass General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Oral Presentation 12 Analysis of a Local Huntingtin Protein Interaction Network
Corey Powell, Buck Institute for Age Research
Oral Presentation 13 In Silico Functional Profiling of Human Disease-Associated and Polymorphic Amino Acid Substitutions
Vidhya G. Krishnan, Buck Institute for Age Research
Keynote 2 Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge Discovery in Cancer Metastasis

Anna Divoli, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Medicine and Institute of Genomics and Systems Biology The University of Chicago
Oral Presentation 14 Accelerating Candidate Gene Discovery through Ontological Indexing of Large Scale Data Repositories
Simon Twigger, Medical College of Wisconsin
Oral Presentation 15 Knowledge Network Approach: Pathways and Drugs
Nikolai Daraselia, Ariadne
Oral Presentation 16 Can We Accurately Determine the Fittest Genes in Nature
Ramy K. Aziz, San Diego State University
Oral Presentation 17 Assessing Models of Protein Interaction Network Evolution
Todd A. Gibson, University of Colorado, Denver
Oral Presentation 18 Gene and Genome Trees Conflict at Many Levels
Leanne S. Haggerty, NUI Maynooth
Oral Presentation 19 Protein-protein Interactions are Driven by Functional Evolution
Yiqiang Zhao, Buck Institute for Age Research
Oral Presentation 20 Evolutionary Study and Prediction of Protein-protein Interactions in Chromatin Modification Complexes
Xuejian Xiong, Hospital for Sick Children
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Friday – December 11, 2009
Keynote 3 Spanning Scales - The Combination of Mathematics and High Performance Computing impacts Computational Biology

Kirk E. Jordan, PhD, Emerging Solution Executive
Computational Science Center
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Oral Presentation 21 An Individual Based Modelling Approach to Studying the Evolution of Mate Choice Strategy
Robert Williamson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Oral Presentation 22 MtHaplogroups: A Curated Web Resource for Mitochondrial Variation
Michael V. Osier, Rochester Institute of Technology
Oral Presentation 23 Posterior-Predictive Detection Of Molecular Co-Evolution Using Phylogenetically-Integrated Mutual Information
A.P. Jason de Koning, University of Colorado, Denver
Oral Presentation 24 Bioinformatics Characterization Of The Plasmodium Glutathione S-Transferase
Emilee Colón, University of Puerto Rico
Oral Presentation 25 Leveraging Existing Biological Knowledge in Genome Wide Association Studies
Ronald Schuyler, University of Colorado, Denver
Oral Presentation 26 Evaluating Microbial Diversity and Adaptation: New Opportunities for Insight in a Data Rich World
Catherine Lozupone, University of Colorado, Boulder
Oral Presentation 27 Wow! That's Really Interesting!
Hannah Tipney, University of Colorado, Boulder
Oral Presentation 28 Global Optimization in Nonlinear Models: Optimization and Evolution in Metabolic Networks
Albert Sorribas, CMB - IRBLLEIDA - University of Lleida
Oral Presentation 29 Virus Discovery by Deep Sequencing and Assembly of Virus-derived Small Silencing RNAs
Qingfa Wu, University of California, Riverside
Oral Presentation 30 Prediction of Protein Protein Interaction Sites and Their Impact on Genetic Disease
Angshuman Bagchi, Buck Institute for Age Research
Oral Presentation 31 Optimal Nearest Shrunken Centroids Method for High-dimensional Data Classification
Tiejun Tong, University of Colorado, Boulder
Oral Presentation 32 Retrobiosynthesis: Searching Backwards, Looking Forwards
Dan McShan, University of Colorado, Denver
Keynote 4
(Joint Keynote)
Strategies for Elaborating Cognitive Requirements of Bioinformatics Tools

Ben Keller, PhD, Associate Professor
Computer Science Department
Eastern Michigan University

and

Barbara Mirel
Associate Research Scientist
School of Education, University of Michigan
NCIBI Core Director of Evaluation, Education and Training
Oral Presentation 33 Experiments with Biological Concept Recognition Tools
Karin Verspoor, University of Colorado, Denver
Oral Presentation 34 Test Suite Design for Biomedical Ontology Concept Recognition Systems
K. Bretonnel Cohen, University of Colorado, Denver
Oral Presentation 35 Predicting Protein Linkages in Bacteria: Which Method is Best Depends on Task
Anis Karimpour-Fard, University of Colorado, Denver
Oral Presentation 36 A Metagenomic Study of a Microbial Mat in a Hawaiian Lava Cave
Gayle K. Philip, NASA Astrobiology Institute
Oral Presentation 37 Mobile Metagenomics: Annotating DNA Sequences On A Cell Phone
Josh Hoffman, San Diego State University
Oral Presentation 38 The Colorado Richly Annotated Full-Text (CRAFT) Corpus: A Resource for BioNLP Research
Michael Bada, University of Colorado, Denver
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Saturday – December 12, 2009
Keynote 5 ChEMBL - Large-scale Open Access Data for Drug Discovery

John P. Overington, PhD CChem.
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
Oral Presentation 39 Subgraphs of Protein-protein Interaction Networks with High Connectivity
Suzanne Gallagher, University of Colorado, Boulder
Oral Presentation 40 TreeHugger: A New Test for Enrichment of Gene Ontology Terms
Daniel Jupiter, Texas A&M Health Science Center
Oral Presentation 41 Pattern-Based Extraction of Argumentation from the Scientific Literature
Elizabeth White, University of Colorado, Boulder
Oral Presentation 42 Early Host Response During Influenza Infections
Christian V. Forst, University of Texas
Oral Presentation 43 Boolean Network Models of Human Aging
Michael Verdicchio, Arizona State University
Oral Presentation 44 Positive Selection and Functional Shift: Human Heme Peroxidase Case Study
Mary J. O'Connell, Dublin City University
Oral Presentation 45 Delving into the Bacteriome:Protein-protein Interactions in E. coli
John Parkinson, Hospital for Sick Children
Oral Presentation 46 Simplified Clustering with Dirichlet Process and Other Process Mixtures
Matthew Shotwell, Medical University of South Carolina
Oral Presentation 47 Real Time Metagenomics
Robert Edwards, San Diego State University
Oral Presentation 48 Structure Discovery in PPI Networks Using Pattern-Based Network Decomposition
Ying Liu, University of Texas, Dallas
Oral Presentation 49 Data Mining Over Directed Transcription Factor Networks
Rauf Malick, Bahria University
Keynote 6 Informatics Challenges for Pharmacogenetic

Russ B. Altman, MD, PhD
Professor of Bioengineering Genetics, Medicine
(& Computer Science, by courtesy)
Chair, Bioengineering Director
Biomedical Informatics Training Program
Stanford University

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