Wednesday,
12 July 2006 |
|
08:15am
- 08:45am |
Registration of participants |
08:45am
- 09:00am |
Opening ceremony |
Session 1 |
Session Chair:
Hon Wai Leong,
National University of Singapore |
09:00am - 10:00am |
Keynote Talk:
Large-scale phylogenetic
reconstruction, the tree of life, and the CIPRES project
Bernard Moret, University of
New Mexico, USA and
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland |
10:00am -
10:30am |
Session 1, Talk #1:
Reconstructing contiguous regions of an ancestral genome
Jian Ma, Pennsylvania State
University, USA |
10:30am - 11:00am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
Session 2 |
Session Chair: Francis Chin,
Hong Kong University, Hong Kong |
11:00am - 11:45am |
Invited Talk:
The similarity metric
and the distance metric
Kaizhong Zhang, University of Western Ontario |
11:45am - 12:15pm |
Session 2, Talk #1:
Motif discovery from
both ends: combinatorial and probabilistic
Mehmet M. Dalkilic, Indiana
University, USA |
12:15pm - 12:45pm |
Session 2, Talk #2:
Computational prediction of operons in Synechococcus sp.
WH8102
Xin Chen, Nanyang Technological
University |
12:45pm - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch Break --- |
Session 3 |
Session Chair: Yap Von Bing,
National University of Singapore |
02:00pm - 02:45pm |
Invited Talk: Contribution
of bioinformatics to understanding stem cell biology
Bing Lim, Genome Institute of Singapore |
02:45pm - 03:15pm |
Session 3, Talk #1:
Fusion genes as putative microbial drug targets in H.
pylori
Meena Kishore Sakharkar,
Nanyang Technological University |
03:15pm - 03:45pm |
Session 3, Talk #2: A new
approach identifying conserved genes in a path from
commensalism to pathogenicity
Zhiwei Cao, Shanghai Center for
Bioinformation Technology |
03:45pm - 04:15pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
Session 4 |
Session Chair: Kwok Pui Choi,
National University of Singapore |
04:15pm - 05:00pm |
Invited Talk: Will sequencing-by-hybridization keep its
original promise?
Franco Preparata, Brown
University, USA |
05:00pm - 05:30pm |
Session 4, Talk #1:
Compressed text indexing and local alignment
Tak Wah Lam, Hong Kong
University, Hong Kong |
05:30pm - 06:00pm |
Session 4, Talk #2: In Search of replication
origins in herpesviruses: a computational approach
David Chew, National University
of Singapore |
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End of Day 1 |
Thursday, 13 July 2006 |
|
08:30am
- 09:00am |
Registration of participants |
Session 5 |
Session Chair: Louxin Zhang,
National University of Singapore |
09:00am
- 10:00am |
Keynote Talk: A parsimony approach to
genome-wide ortholog assignment
Tao Jiang, University of
California at Riverside, USA |
10:00am - 10:30am |
Session 5, Talk #1:
Analysis of genome
rearrangement using reversals and block-interchanges
Yen Jen Lin, National Tsing Hua
University |
10:30am - 11:00am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
Session 6 |
Session Chair: Xin Chen, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore |
11:00am - 11:45am |
Invited Talk:
Protein subcellular localization prediction based on
compartment-specific biological features
Wen Lian Hsu,Institute of Information Science, Academia
Sinica, Taiwan |
11:45am - 12:15pm |
Session 6, Talk #1: A graph-based approach
to inferring protein function from heterogeneous data
sources
Kenny Hon Nian Chua, National
University of Singapore |
12:15pm - 12:45pm |
Session 6, Talk #2:
On
simultaneous knowledge extraction from protein protein
interaction data
Hugo Willy, Institute for
Infocomm Research |
12:45pm - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch Break --- |
Session 7 |
Session Chair: Ken W. K. Sung,
National University of Singapore |
02:00pm - 02:45pm |
Invited Talk: Topological
and functional discovery in a gene co-expression
meta-network of gastric cancer
Patrick, Boon Ooi
Tan, Genome Institute of Singapore |
02:45pm - 03:15pm |
Session 7, Talk #1:
Visual exploration of
multivariate image data through ultra-fast computation
of similarity maps with the Lasagne tool
Peter Serocka, Shanghai
Institutes for Biological Sciences, Shanghai, PRC |
03:15pm - 03:45pm |
Session 7, Talk #2:
A semantic approach
for mining biological databases
Srinivasa K G, M S Ramaiah
Institute of Technology |
03:45pm - 04:15pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
Session 8 |
Session Chair: See-Kiong Ng,
Institute for InfoComm Research, Singapore |
04:15pm - 05:00pm |
Invited Talk:
Exploiting indirect
neighbours and topological weight to predict protein
function from protein-protein interactions
Lim Soon Wong, National
University of Singapore |
05:00pm - 05:30pm |
Session 8, Talk #1: Reconstructing protein-protein
interaction map of saccharomyces cerevisiae
Kui Lin, Beijing Normal
University, PRC |
05:30pm - 06:00pm |
Session 8, Talk #2:
Extracting protein-protein interactions from the
literature using the hidden vector state model
Yulan He, Nanyang Technological
University |
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End of Day 2 |
Friday, 14 July 2006 |
|
08:30am
- 09:00am |
Registration of participants |
Session 9 |
Session Chair:
Lim Soon Wong,
National University of Singapore |
09:00am
- 10:00am |
Keynote Talk:
Computational methods for refinement and expansion of
signaling pathways
Ron Shamir, Tel Aviv
University, Israel |
10:00am - 10:30am |
Session 9, Talk #1:
Pathway finder
Chee Keong Kwoh, Nanyang
Technological University |
10:30am - 11:00am |
--- Coffee Break --- |
Session 10 |
Session Chair: Louxin Zhang,
National University of Singapore |
11:00am - 11:45am |
Invited Talk: Dan
gusfield's "galled trees" and the block decomposition of
metrics
Andreas Dress, Shanghai
Institutes for Biological Sciences, PRC |
11:45am - 12:15pm |
Session 10, Talk #1:
Reconstructing recombination networks from sequence
data: small parsimony problem
Nguyen Cam Thach, National
University of Singapore |
12:15am - 12:45pm |
Session 10, Talk #2:
Rearrangements in genomes with unequal content
Melvin Zhang, National
University of Singapore |
12:45pm - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch Break --- |
Session 11 |
Session Chair: Chee Keong Kwoh,
Nanyang Technological University |
02:00pm - 02:45pm |
Invited Talk:
New generation homology search
Ming Li, University
of Waterloo, Canada |
02:45pm - 03:15pm |
Session 11, Talk #1:
Computing bi-clusters
for microarray data analysis
Lusheng Wang, City University
of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
03:15pm - 03:45pm |
Session 11, Talk #2: Linear-time haplotype inference
on pedigree without recombinations
Bethany Chan, Hong Kong
University, Hong Kong |
03:45pm - 04:15pm |
--- Coffee Break --- |
Session 12 |
Session Chair: Franco Preparata,
Brown University, USA |
04:15pm - 05:00pm |
Invited Talk:
Algorithms for irredundant motif discovery
Alberto Apostolico, Georgia
Institue of Technology, USA
and University of Padova, Italy |
05:00pm - 05:30pm |
Session 12, Talk #1:
Optimizing barbecues: algorithms and applications
Axel Mosig, Shanghai Institutes
for Biological Sciences, Shanghai, PRC |
05:30pm - 06:00pm |
Session 12, Talk #2:
QNet: a method to construct circular phylogenetic
networks from quartet data
Stefan Grünewald, Shanghai
Institutes for Biological Sciences, Shanghai, PRC |
06:00pm -
06:30pm <new> |
Session 13, Talk #3: High resolution genetic image
analysis with wavelets
Wang Yu-Ping,University of
Missouri-Kansas City, USA |
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End of Day 3 |
