Session Recaps
NetBio
We had an exciting full-day program at the NetBio session.
Morning Session: A Dynamic Start
The NetBio session today began with an inspiring keynote by Anne-Claude Gingras, who presented her work on "Using proximity-dependent biotinylation to understand dynamic cell organization." Gingras showcased approaches for studying the spatial and temporal aspects of protein interactions within cells, providing invaluable insights into subcellular organization and dynamics.
Merel Kuijs continued the program with her presentation of their proceedings paper on the GraphCompass (10.1093/bioinformatics/btae242). After two selected talks on network approaches for MS proteomics data, we had our first NetBio poster session over lunch with lots of discussions and networking.
Afternoon Session: Bridging Disciplines
The afternoon session opened with Chao Deng presenting their proceeding paper (10.1093/bioinformatics/btae257) on candidate gene identification using hypergraph neural networks. The following selected talks covered topics around link prediction, multi-layer networks, machine learning, and protein sequenced-based LLMs.
Dongmin Bang highlighted their approaches for drug response prediction described in their proceeding paper (10.1093/bioinformatics/btae249) before we concluded our session with a fantastic keynote by Patrick Aloy on “Blending Biology, Chemistry and AI through network embeddings”.
What’s coming up
Don’t forget to stop by the second half of the NetBio posters tomorrow during the lunch break! We are also excited that our best talk and poster prizes will be announced during the ISMB2024 award presentation session on Tuesday afternoon.
Thank you
A big thank you to all presenters, both for their talks and posters, for their invaluable contributions to the success of today's session. Special thanks to the COSI organizing team for putting together an exciting program highlighting the diverse applications of network biology ranging from novel methods and innovative research applications to important tools and resources that advance the field. Also, a thank you to the technical support staff at the conference and the ISCB staff that is always ready to help.
TransMed
We kicked off our TransMed meeting at ISMB 2024 this afternoon! Reinhard Schneider (University of Luxembourg) presented brief updates of our community since the previous edition and introduced the current meeting that will run until tomorrow afternoon. This year, we will have a new session dedicated to Poster Flash Talks, 12 - 12.20pm tomorrow. Today, we had two proceedings (TA-RNN: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btae264 and PhiHER2: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btae236) and three selected talks covering methods and tools for cancer research, including the eHDPrep package for electronic health data preparation, identification of candidate drugs for repurposing for breast cancer and investigation of the impact of clinically relevant gene fusions in head and neck cancer. We thank all our speakers and participants and we are looking forward to continuing tomorrow with our keynotes, selected and flash talks as well as with the poster presentations.