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Award Winners

Ian Lawson Van Toch Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper
RCSB PDB Poster Prize
Special Session: Representation learning in biology
Special Session: Emerging gain-of-function mutations and multi-omics network biology
Bio-Ontologies COSI – Best Talk Award
Bio-Ontologies COSI – Best Poster Award
BioVis COSI – Best Abstract
BioVis COSI – Test-of-Time Award
CAMDA COSI – Best Talk Awards
CAMDA COSI – Best Poster Award
CompMS COSI – Best Talk Award
CompMS COSI – Best Poster Award
EvolCompGen COSI - Best Talk Award
EvolCompGen COSI - Best Poster Award
iRNA COSI – Best Poster Award
NetBio COSI – Best Talk Award
NetBio COSI – Best Poster Award
SysMod COSI - Best Poster Awards
TransMed COSI Best Oral Presentation Awards
TransMed COSI Best Poster Awards

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Jamshed Khan, University of Meryland
Cuttlefish: Fast, parallel, and low-memory compaction of de Bruijn graphs from large-scale genome collections
 
With Support From:
Tsukasa Nakamura, JSPS(PD)/Tohoku University
Towards protein interface prediction using SE(3)-Transformer

Special Session: Representation learning in biology

First Prize:
Hideki Yamaguchi, The University of Tokyo
Evotuning protocols for Transformer-based variant effect prediction on multi-domain proteins
 
Second Prize:
Paulina Szymczak, Uniwersytet Warszawski
HydrAMP: a deep generative model for antimicrobial peptide discovery

Special Session: Emerging gain-of-function mutations and multi-omics network biology

Most Innovative Talk:
Trey Ideket, University of California, San Diego
Building the Mind of Cancer
 
Most Provocatice Talk:
Christopher Burge, MIT
Hunting for functional genetic variants in human 3' UTR

Bio-Ontologies COSI – Best Talk Award

Tiago Lubiana, University of Sao Paulo
Wikidata for 5-star Linked Open Databases: a case study of PanglaoDB

Bio-Ontologies COSI – Best Poster Award

Sanya Taneja, University of Pittsburgh
Designing potential extensions from G-SRS to ChEBI to identify natural product-drug interactions

BioVis COSI – Best Abstract

First Prize:
Grammer-Based Interactive Visualization of Genomics Data
Sehi L'Yi, Qianwen Wang, Fritz Lekschas, and Nils Gehlenborg
 
Honourable Mention:
Loon: Using Exemplars to Visualize Large Scale Microscopy Data
Devin Lange, Eddie Polacno, Robert Judson-Torres, Thomas Zangle, and Alexander Lex

BioVis COSI – Test-of-Time Award

RuleBender: Integrated visualization for biochemical rule-based modeling
Adam M Smith, Wen Xu, Yao Sun, James R Faeder, G. Elisabeta Marai

CAMDA COSI – Best Talk Award

First Prize:
Gonghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences & Massachusetts Gneral Hospital
Targeting the hsot response in COVID-19 by integeration of metabolic modeling and cheminformatics
 
Second Place:
Xianghao Zhan, Stanford University
Filter Drug-induced Liver Injury (DILI) Literature with Natural Langauage Processing and Ensemble Learning
 
Third Place:
Dimatar Vassilev, Sofia University
Discovering relationship between bacteriophages and antimicrobial resistance

CompMS COSI – Best Talk Award

Proteomics
Ayse Dincer
Inferring peptide coefficients from quantitative mass spectrometery data

CompMS COSI – Best Poster Award

Proteomics
Sven Giese
millipede - A Deep Learning Library to Predict the Entire Mass Spectrometery Life Cycle of Proteins and Peptide

EvolCompGen COSI - Best Talk Award

First Prize:
Elise Parey
Combining synteny and sequence-based approaches to investigate genome evolution after polyploidization
 
Honourable Mentions:
Day 1: Salvatore Cosentino
SonicParanoid2: Machine Learning-Driven Integration of Bidirectional Best Hit and Protein Domain Analysis for Faster and More Accurate Othology
 
Day 2: Conor Walker
Accurate detection of interspecific positive selection using convolutional neural networks
 
Day 3: Matteo Delabre
Super-Reconciliation with Horizontal Gene Transfers

EvolCompGen COSI - Best Poster Award

First Prize:
Vignesh Sridhar, Karn Jongnarangsin, Arjun Krishnan, and Janani Ravi
Developing a machine learning approach to determine gene/protein features to classify bacterial groups
 
Honourable Mention:
Elliot Majlessi, Neal Hammer, and Janani Ravi
Evolution of Staphylococcal Antibiotic Resistance Systems Across Gram-Positive Bacteria

iRNA COSI – Best Poster Award

David Wang, University of Pennsylvania
Alternative Splicing Based Classification of Heterogeneous Cancers Reveals Novel Disease Subtypes

NetBio COSI – Best Talk Award

Olga Lazareva, Technical University of Munich
On the limits of active module identification

NetBio COSI – Best poster Award

Lisa Rottjers, KU Leuven
Fast and flexible analysis of linked microbiome data with mako

SysMod COSI - Best Poster Awards

First Prize:
Automated whole-cell modeling from genomic sequence and multi-omics data
Kazunari Kaizu, Kozo Nishida, and Koichi Takashi
 
An agent-based model of tumour-associated macrophage differentiation in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
Nina Verstraete, Malvina Marku, Helene Arduin, Marcin Domagal, Jean Jacques Fournie, Loic Ysebaert, Mary Poupot, and Vera Pancaldi
 
Second Prize:
Boolean Network Inference at Different Levels of Logical Complexity
Eline S. van Mantgem, Gunnar W. Klau, and Heinrich Heine
 
Third Prize:
Simulating drug effects on whole-cell level simulation
Bence Keomley-Horvath, Attila Czikasz-Nagy, Istvan Reguly, and Pazmany Peter

TransMed COSI Best Oral Presentation Awards

Marius Herr, University Hospital Tubingen & University of Tubingen
Bringing the algorithms to the Data - Secure Distributed Medical Analytics using the Personal Health Train
 
Riya Gupta, Khatri Labs, Stanford University
Formulating a Gene Signature for Diagnosis of Autoimmune and Infectious Diseases
 
Yun Hao, University of Pannsylvania
A novel feature selection pipeline for identifying predictive targets associated with drug toxicity

TransMed COSI Best Poster Awards

Juan Jenao, Institute of Computational Biology, Biology Helmholtz-Zentrum Munchen
Identifying Dysfunctional Mechanisms of Pancreas-residing T-cells in Islet Autoimmunity Through Single-cell Immune Profiling
 
Mark Wappett, Queens University
SynLeGG; analysis and visualization of multiomics data for discovery of cancer 'Achilles Heels' and gene function relationships
 
Hammad Iqbal, Precision Medicine Lab
The wearables for wellness pilot: data-enabled primary care in an LMIC context