14th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference
DETAILED AGENDA
(All sessions will be held at the Snowmass Convention Center CC)
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| WEDNESDAY – December 7, 2016 | ||
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| 04:00 pm | 06:00 pm | REGISTRATION in the lobby of the Westin |
| THURSDAY – December 8, 2016 | ||
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| 08:00 am | 06:00 pm | Registration |
| 08:00 am | 09:00 am | Breakfast |
| 09:00 am | 09:45 am | Keynote 1 Joshua M. Stuart, PhD Professor UC Santa Cruz The Blue-prints of Tumors Uncovered Through Network Integration > Click here for details < |
| 09:45 am | 09:55 am | OP 01 IndeCut: A Cut-norm Based Method for Evaluating Independent and Uniform Sampling in Network Motif Discovery Algorithms Mitra Ansariola Oregon State University, Corvallis Click here for slides (pdf). |
| 09:55 am | 10:05 am | OP 02 Reproducible Computational Workflows with Continuous Analysis Brett Beaulieu-Jones University of Pennsylvania |
| 10:05 am | 10:15 am | OP 03 Application Ontologies Supporting Phenotyping from Clinical Text Wendy Chapman University of Utah |
| 10:15 am | 10:25 am | OP 04 SPARQLer: Making Knowledge Functional Daniel McShan University of Colorado School of Medicine |
| 10:25 am | 10:45 am | Break |
| 10:45 am | 11:15 am | Keynote 2 Renee Deehan Kenney, PhD Head of Biology and Bioinformatics PatientsLikeMe Measuring Disease Through Real World Evidence and Biological State: Impact For Patients (and Animal Models, too) > Click here for details < |
| 11:15 am | 11:25 am | OP 05 Improved Network Ontology Analysis by Segmentation Ananda Mondal Claflin University |
| 11:25 am | 11:35 am | OP 06 An Image Phenotyping Environment Based on Open-Source Tools Brian Chapman University of Utah |
| 11:35 am | 11:45 am | OP 07 InterViewer, a new Cytoscape-based viewer that displays interactions between selected sets of proteins Marek Tutaj Medical College of Wisconsin |
| 11:45 am | 11:55 am | OP 08 CAMSA: a Tool for Comparative Analysis and Merging of Scaffold Assemblies Max Alekseyev George Washington University |
| 12:00 pm | 04:00 pm | -->Ski Break |
| 04:00 pm | 04:30 pm | Keynote 3 Marco Masseroli, PhD Associate Professor Politecnico di Milano Next Generation Genomic Computing > Click here for details < |
| 04:30 pm | 04:40 pm | OP 09 Analysis of Tobacco Users Admitted to Intensive Care Units Andrey Soares University of Colorado School of Medicine |
| 04:40 pm | 04:50 pm | OP 10 A new molecular signature approach for prediction of driver cancer pathways from transcriptional data Boris Reva Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Click here for slides (pdf). |
| 04:50 pm | 05:00 pm | OP 11 Computational analysis of breakome reveals replication fork movement and elucidates mechanisms of DNA double-stranded break formation Maga Rowicka University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston |
| 05:00 pm | 05:10 pm | OP 12 HRC3 – A new class of motifs involved in chromatin organization and development Andrzej Kudlicki University of Texas Medical Branch |
| 05:10 pm | 05:30 pm | Break |
| 05:30 pm | 05:40 pm | OP 13 Network Inference and the Knowledge Base of Biomedicine Tiffany Callahan University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus Click here for slides (pdf). |
| 05:40 pm | 05:50 pm | OP 14 ShinyLearner: Enabling biologists to perform robust machine-learning classification Stephen Piccolo Brigham Young University |
| 05:50 pm | 06:00 pm | OP 15 Stratification of prostate cancer patients based on molecular interaction profiles Roland Mathis IBM Research Click here for slides (pdf). |
| 06:30 pm | 09:30 pm | Dinner - Il Poggio |
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| FRIDAY – – December 9, 2016 | ||
| START TIME | END TIME | SESSION TYPE |
| 08:00 am | 06:00 pm | Registration |
| 08:30 am | 09:00 am | Breakfast |
| 09:00 am | 09:45 am | Keynote 4 Laura K. Wiley, PhD Assistant Professor University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Precision Medicine and the Learning Healthcare System: Leveraging Informatics to Improve Care > Click here for details < |
| 09:45 am | 09:55 am | OP 16 Medication Data Mining of Electronic Medical Records Reveal Race-Specific Prescription Patterns Benjamin Glicksberg Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| 09:55 am | 10:05 am | OP 17 Comparative analysis of the expression patterns and regulation of histone variant genes reveals a novel epigenetic pathway related to cancer Michael Tolstorukov Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School |
| 10:05 am | 10:15 am | OP 18 The Cognoma Collaborative creates a webapp to predict cancer mutations from gene expression Daniel Himmelstein University of Pennsylvania Slides are available here:- Slides - Video |
| 10:15 am | 10:25 am | OP 19 Functionally prioritizing candidate genes from genome-wide association studies Kelsey Anderson University of Colorado School of Medicine |
| 10:25 am | 10:45 am | Break |
| 10:45 am | 11:15 am | Keynote 5 Alan Williams, PhD Chief Informatics Officer SomaLogic Data Analytics and the SOMAscan™ Proteomic Platform > Click here for details < |
| 11:15 am | 11:25 am | OP 20 Deriving Population-Scale Therapeutic Trajectories to Enable Precision Pharmacology Kipp Johnson Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| 11:25 am | 11:35 am | OP 21 Comparison of Relief-F Nucleotide Differences For GWAS Data With Application to Bipolar Disorder Marziyeh Arabnejad Khanouki University of Tulsa |
| 11:35 am | 11:45 am | OP 22 ModEvo: A Web-Based Tool for Modeling Evolutionary Dynamics Filip Jagodzinski Western Washington University |
| 11:45 am | 11:55 am | OP 23 Predicting Neural Fluctuations in the Primary Visual Cortex William Kindel University of Colorado School of Medicine |
| 12:00 pm | 04:00 pm | -->Ski Break |
| 04:00 pm | 04:30 pm | Keynote 6 Temple F. Smith, PhD Professor Emeritus Boston University Current Insights into the Evolution of the Genetic Translation System and the Genetic Code Itself > Click here for details < |
| 04:30 pm | 04:40 pm | OP 24 De novo protein structure prediction by big data and deep learning Sheng Wang Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago |
| 04:40 pm | 04:50 pm | OP 25 Identifying the mechanism for the metastatic spread of breast cancer through integration of gene expression, whole genome sequencing and functional screens Eran Andrechek Michigan State University |
| 04:50 pm | 05:00 pm | OP 26 Allelic Maps of Cancer Anelia Horvath George Washington University |
| 05:00 pm | 05:10 pm | OP 27 Identifying non-specific effects of small molecule treatment through GSEA meta-analysis Rani Powers University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus |
| 05:10 pm | 05:30 pm | Break |
| 05:30 pm | 05:40 pm | OP 28 Insights into Bathyarcheota Ecology and Co-occurrence Patterns as Revealed by Public Metagenome Sequencing Data David Banks-Richardson University of Colorado -Denver |
| 05:40 pm | 05:50 pm | OP 29 The SNPPhenA Corpus: An annotated research abstract corpus for extracting ranked association of single-nucleotide polymorphisms and phenotypes Hamidreza Chitsaz Colorado State University |
| 05:50 pm | 06:00 pm | OP 30 Toward a Metric Learning Model for Protein Fold Recognition Using a Novel Feature Extraction Technique Based on the Mixture of Evolutionary and Secondary Structural Information Pooya Zakeri 1)KU Leuven. 2)iMinds |
| 06:30 pm | 08:30 pm | Poster Session - Poster abstracts - Poster list |
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| SATURDAY – – December 10, 2016 | ||
| START TIME | END TIME | SESSION TYPE |
| 08:00 am | 11:00 am | Registration |
| 08:00 am | 09:00 am | Breakfast |
| 09:00 am | 09:30 am | Keynote 7 Krista Meyer, PhD Director of Proteomic Analysis Biodesix: Making Medicine Personal® Leveraging Biology to Guide Feature Enrichment for Designing Multivariate Classifiers for Clinical Tests > Click here for details < |
| 09:30 am | 09:40 am | OP 31 Development of a diagnostic to profile eukaryotic microbes of the human microbiome Ana Popovic Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto |
| 09:40 am | 09:50 am | OP 32 G4 quadruplexes in and near regulatory elements of maize genes predict tissue type and altered transcriptional and translational response to submergence and heat stress Mingze He Iowa State University |
| 09:50 am | 10:00 am | OP 33 Modeling heterogeneous cell populations using Boolean networks Brian Ross University of Colorado |
| 10:00 am | 10:10 am | OP 34 Enhancer Reprogramming in Mammalian Genomes Mario Flores NIH |
| 10:10 am | 10:20 am | OP 35 The Finite State Projection based Fisher Information Matrix for the Design of Single-Cell Experiments Zachary Fox Colorado State University |
| 10:20 am | 10:40 am | Break |
| 10:40 am | 10:50 am | OP 36 2-Scale KNN Classifications Destiny Anyaiwe Oakland University Click here for slides (pdf). |
| 10:50 am | 11:00 am | OP 37 Best practices for reproducible and robust data analysis in a bioinformatics core facility James Denvir Marshall University |
| 11:00 am | 11:10 am | OP 38 The Affinity Data Bank for biophysical analysis of regulatory sequences Todd Riley University of Massachusetts, Boston |
| 11:10 am | 11:20 am | OP 39 Pattern-based estimation of the extent of explicit contradiction in the scientific literature Elizabeth White University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Click here for slides (pdf). |
| 11:20 am | 11:30 am | OP 40 Towards Highly Accurate Mapping of Protein Glycosylation Sites in the Human Proteome Chen Li Monash University Click here for slides (pdf). |
| 11:30 am | 11:50 am | Keynote 8 Kirk E. Jordan, PhD Chief Science Officer IBM Research UK Data Centric Cognitive Computing: IBM’s Direction, Workflow Challenges and Opportunities > Click here for details < |
| 11:50 am | 12:00 pm | Closing Raffle and Awards |