Preliminary Program:
Conference on Computational Biology and Genome Informatics (CBGI-02)

http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cbgi/

 

 

March 8-10, 2002

sponsored BY

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Program and

Laurence H Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics 

Iowa State University

 

College of Engineering, Duke University

 

George Mason University

 

Colocated with the Joint Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS 2002)

www.ee.duke.edu/jcis/

 

Durham, North Carolina

 

Keynote and Semi-Plenary Speakers (CBGI-02)
(In alphabetical order by speaker’s last name. Additonal speakers have been invited. Please check back for updated list.)

March 8, 9:30 a.m.

Stephen Bryant, NCBI, NLM, USA

Conserved Domain Data Base

TBA

Thom LaBean, Duke U., USA

 

March 9, 8:50 am

Robert Jernigan, Iowa State University, USA

 (TBA)

Joseph Nevins, Duke U., USA

March 8, 8:00 a.m.

Jane Richardson, Duke U., USA

Exploring Features and Quality Controls in the 3D Molecular Database

March 9, 8:00 a.m.

Roberto Sanchez

The Use of Protein Structure Modeling Methods to Study Protein Function

March 11, 8:45 p.m.
(banquet speaker)

John Staddon, Duke U., USA

March 10, 1:30 p.m.

Jeff Vitter, Duke U., USA

Compressed Indexes for Fast Search in Sequences

 

 

 

4th Conference on Computational Biology and
Genome Informatics

March 8, 10:20 a.m.

CBGI-1: Macromolecular Sequence Analysis

Analysis of Amino Acid Sequences by Statistical Technique

Shusaku Tsumato, Shoji Hirano, Akira Yasuda, Shimane Med. U; Kouhei Tsumoto, Tohoku U., Japan.

Recognizing PROSITE Patterns with Cellular  Automata

Kim Laurio, Fredrik Linåker, Ajit Narayanan, U. of Skövde, Sweden

Fast Algorithm for Extracting Multiple Unordered Short Motifs Using Bit Operations

Osamu Maruyama, Satoru Kuhara, Kyushu U.; Hideo Bannai, Satoru Miyano, U. of Tokyo;
Yoshinori Tamada, Tokai U., Japan

Application of Global Computational Tools GeneOrder and OrthologLocator to the
Comparative Analyses of Chordopoxvirus Genomes

Nikhat Zafar, Raja Mazumder and Donald Seto, George Mason U., USA

March 8, 3:50 p.m.

CBGI-2: Protein Structure and Function

Data-Driven Discovery of Protein Function Classifiers:  Decision Trees Based on MEME Motifs
Outperform PROSITE Patterns and Profiles on Peptidase Families

Xiangyun Wang, Diane Schroeder, Drena Dobbs, and Vasant Honavar, Iowa State U., USA

Discovering Protein Function Classification Rules from Reduced Alphabet Representations of Protein Sequences

Carson M. Andorf, Drena L. Dobbs, Vasant G. Honavar, Iowa State U., USA

A Filtering Method for High-Speed Retrieval of Similar Active Sites

Tadasuke Nakagawa, Takanori Tanaka, Takenao Ohkawa, Haruki Nakamura, Osaka U., Japan

A Method of Comparing Protein  Molecular Surface Based on Normal Vectors with Attributes and
Its Application to Function Identification

Yoshikagu Kaneta, Norimasa Shoji, Takenao Ohkawa, Haruki Nakamura, Osaka U., Japan

 

March 8, 6:15 p.m.

CBGI-3: Gene Expression Data Analysis I

Oligonucleotide Microarray Data Distribution And Normalization

I.A. Sidorov, D. Gee, D.S. Dimitrov, Nat. Cancer Inst., NIH;
D.A. Hosack, J. Yang, R.A. Lempicki, SAIC, NCI; M.C. Cam, NIDDK, NIH, USA

Evaluation of Microarray Design for Bacterial Strain Identification

David K.Y. Chiu, Ryan Zhao, Shu Cen, U. of Guelph, Canada

Interpreting Microarray Expression Data Using Text Annotating the Genes

Michael Molla, Peter Andreae, Jeremy Glasner, Frederick Blattner, Jude Shavlik, U. Wisconsin, USA

Evolutionary Analysis for Developmental Profiles of Gene Family Expression in
Central Nervous System

Yufeng Wang, ATCC; Xun Gu, Iowa State U., USA

 

March 9, 10:20 a.m.

CBGI-4: Genetic Network Inference

Could Correlation-based Methods be Used to Derive Genetic Association Networks?

Angelica Lindlöf and Bjorn Olsson, U. of Skövde, Sweden

Inference of a Gene Regulatory Network by Means of Interactive Evolutionary Computing

Atsushi Mimura, Hitoshi Iba, U. of Tokyo, Japan

Evolutionary Modeling and Inference by Genetic Network

Shin Ando, Erina Sakamoto, Hitoshi Iba, U. of Tokyo, Japan

March 9, 7:45 p.m.

CBGI-5: Gene Expression Analysis II

Using Functional Annotation to Improve Clusterings of Gene Expression Patterns

Per Jonsson, Kim Laurio, Zelmina Lubovac, Björn Olsson, U. of Skövde;
Magnus L. Andersson, AstraZeneca R&D,  Sweden

Expression Pattern of Yeast Sporulation: A Case Study for  Regulatory Changes after 
Yeast Genome Duplication

Wei Huang, Dan Nettleton, Xun Gu, Iowa State U., USA

Functional Divergence in TGF-b Signaling Pathway

Jianying Gu, Xun Gu, Iowa State U., USA

Poster Session and Reception: March 8, 7:30 p.m.

POSTERS (based on Extended Abstracts)

Toward the Development of an Open Metadata Framework for Compositional Proteomics

W. John McMullen, David A. Fenstermacher, UNC, USA

Differential  Expression of SAMDC a Polyamine Biosynthesis Gene During Cold Stress in Rice

M. Armugam Pillai, Takashi Akiyama, Hokkaido Nat. Agri. Experiment Station, Japan

Quality-Dependent Data Filtering, Normalization and Data Mining using Microarray Technology

Xujing Wang and Soumitra Ghosh, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and Med. College of Wisconsin, USA

Estimating Entropy

William Bialek and Jonathan Miller, Princeton U., USA

March 9, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Panel Discussion

March 9, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Computational Biology and Genome Informatics:

James Siedow, Duke U., USA

Jane Richardson, Duke U., USA

Stephen Bryant, NCBI, NLM, USA

Robert Jernigan, Iowa State University, USA

 

March 10

Workshop: Protein Structure and Function

(sponsored by George mason university)