From owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Mon Feb 14 20:07:21 2000 Return-Path: Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id 8B99D17B39; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 20:07:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 1) id 8349017B38; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 20:07:19 +0000 (GMT) To: bionews@net.bio.net Newsgroups: bionet.announce Date: 14 Feb 2000 02:07:21 -0000 From: takutsu@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp ("Tatsuya Akutsu") Organization: Human Genome Center, Inst. of Medical Science, Univ. of Subject: RECOMB 2000: preliminary program and updates Message-Id: <20000214200719.8349017B38@mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk> Sender: owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Dear colleague: Enclosed is the preliminary program of RECOMB 2000. We are looking forward to an exciting program, including nine keynote presentations by distinguished scientists, 36 contributed talks selected by the Program Committee, and 120 accepted posters. Please note: the early registration deadline is February 20, 2000. The deadline for hotel reservation is March 1, 2000. The list of accepted posters, as well as resigration and hotel information, is available at http://recomb2000.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Further updates will be posted on the website. See you in Tokyo, Ron Shamir RECOMB 2000 Program Chair ---------------------------------------------------------------- FOURTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (RECOMB 2000) April 8-11, 2000 Tokyo, Japan Organized by Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo Sponsored by ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) - SIGACT with support from Agilent Laboratories Compugen IBM Corporation International Society for Computational Biology SmithKline Beecham US National Science Foundation US Department of Energy http://recomb2000.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp Preliminary Program ------------------- Friday April 7 *************** 16-19 Welcome and Registration 18:00 Reception Saturday April 8 **************** 9:00 opening remarks Ron Shamir, RECOMB 2000 Program Chair Satoru Miyano, RECOMB 2000 Organizing Committee Chair Thomas Lengauer, RECOMB 2001 Program Chair 9:15-10:15 The Stanislaw Ulam Computational Biology Address. Minoru Kanehisa : Sequence Comparison to Graph Comparison-A New Generation of Algorithms for Network Analysis of Interacting Molecules 10:20-10:45 S. Batzoglou, L. Pachter, J. P. Mesirov, B. Berger, E. S. Lander: Comparative Analysis of Mouse and Human DNA and Applications to Exon Prediction 10:45-11:10 P. Pevzner, V. Dancik, C. L. Tang: Mutation-Tolerant Protein Identification by Mass-Spectrometry 11:10-11:40 break 11:40-12:05 N. Friedman, M. Linial, I. Nachman, D. Pe'er: Using Bayesian Networks to Analyze Expression Data 12:05-12:30 A. Ben-Dor, L. Bruhn, N. Friedman, I. Nachman, M. Schummer, Z. Yakhini: Tissue classification with gene expression profiles 12:30-12:55 D. K. Slonim, P. Tamayo, J. P. Mesirov, T. R. Golub, E. S. Lander: Class prediction and discovery using gene expression data 12:55-14:15 lunch (poster setup period) 14:15-15:15 Keynote Lecture: Hans Lehrach A Data-Analysis Pipeline for Large-Scale Gene Expression Analysis 15:20-15:45 C. Bailey-Kellogg, A. Widge, J. J. Kelley, M. J. Berardi, J. H. Bushweller, B. R. Donald: The NOESY Jigsaw: automated protein secondary structure and main-chain assignment from sparse, unassigned NMR data 15:45-16:10 J. M. Sorenson, T. Head-Gordon: Matching simulation and experiment: a new simplified model for simulating protein folding 16:10-16:40 break 16:40-17:40 Keynote Lecture: Svante Paabo DNA Sequence Variation among Humans and Apes 17:45-18:10 A. Zien, R. Zimmer, T. Lengauer: A simple iterative approach to parameter optimization 18:20-20:00 business meeting Sunday April 9 ************** 9:00-10:00 Keynote Lecture: Eric Davidson Computational Analyses of Developmental cis-Regulatory Control Systems 10:05-10:30 T. Akutsu, S. Miyano, S. Kuhara : Algorithms for Identifying Boolean Networks and Related Biological Networks Based on Matrix Multiplication and Fingerprint Function 10:30-10:55 M. Tomita, K. Hashimoto, K. Takahashi, Y. Matsuzaki, R. Matsushima, K. Yugi, F. Miyoshi, H. Nakano, Y. Saito, S. Shimizu, Y. Nakayama : The E-CELL project: towards integrative simulation of cellular processes 10:55-11:25 break 11:25-11:50 A. Liwo, J. Pillardy, C. Czaplewski, J. Lee, D. R. Ripoll, M. Groth, S. Rodziewicz-Motowidlo, R. Kazmierkiewicz, R. J. Wawak, S. Oldziej, H. A. Scheraga : UNRES -- a united-residue force field for energy-based prediction of protein structure - origin and significance of multibody terms 11:50-12:15 Y. Z. Ohkubo, G. M. Crippen : Determining Contact Energy Function for Continuous State Models of Globular Protein Conformations 12:15-15:00 poster session and lunch 15:00-16:00 Keynote Lecture: Takashi Gojobori Evolutionary Features of Genomes as Disclosed by Comparative Analysis of Complete Genome Sequences 16:05-16:30 B. Chor, M. D. Hendy, B. R. Holland, D. Penny : Multiple Maxima of Likelihood in Phylogenetic Trees: An Analytic Approach 16:30-16:55 R. Desper, M. Vingron : Tree Fitting: an Algebraic Approach Using Profile Distances 16:55-17:25 break 17:25-17:50 D. Sankoff, D. Bryant, M. Deneault, B. F. Lang, G. Burger : Early Eukaryote Evolution Based on Mitochondrial Gene Order Breakpoints 17:50-18:15 K. Chen, D. Durand, M. Farach-Colton : Notung: Dating gene duplications using gene family trees 18:30-21:30 banquet and Distinguished Biology Lecture: Walter Gilbert Introns and Modules in Ancient Conserved Genes Monday April 10 *************** 9:00-10:00 Distinguished New Technologies Lecture: Leroy Hood Computing Life and Global Technologies 10:05-10:30 A. Ben-Dor, R. M. Karp, B. Schwikowski, Z. Yakhini : Universal DNA tag systems: a combinatorial design scheme 10:30-10:55 F. P. Preparata, E. Upfal : Sequencing-by-hybridization at the information-theory bound: an optimal algorithm 10:55-11:25 break 11:25-11:50 R. B. Lyngso, C. N. S. Pederson : Pseudonknots in RNA Secondary Structures 11:50-12:15 Y. Xu, D. Xu, O. H. Crawford, J. R. Einstein, E. Serpersu : Protein Structure Determination using Protein Threading and Sparse NMR Data 12:15-12:40 E. Althaus, O. Kohlbacher, H. P. Lenhof, P. Mueller : A combinatorial approach to protein docking with flexible side-chains 12:40-14:00 lunch 14:00-15:00 Keynote Lecture: Yusuke Nakamura Human Genome Analysis and Medicine in the 21st Century 15:05-15:30 R. Bundschuh : An Analytic Approach to Significance Assessment in Local Sequence Alignment with Gaps 15:30-15:55 T. Akutsu, H. Arimura, S. Shimozono On Approximation Algorithms for Local Multiple Alignment 15:55-16:25 break 16:25-16:50 M. Kann, R. A. Goldstein : Optimizing for Success: A New Score Function For Distantly Related Protein Sequence Comparison 16:50-17:15 S. A. Teichmann, C. Chothia, G. M. Church, J. Park : PDB-ISL: an intermediate sequence library for fast assignment of protein structures to sequences 17:15-17:40 J. R. Bienkowska, L. Yu, S. Zarakhovich, R. G. Rogers, T. F. Smith : Comprehensive statistical method for protein fold recognition 17:40-19:40 poster session Tuesday April 11 **************** 9:00-10:00 Keynote Lecture: Yvonne Martin Molecular Diversity: Strategies and Concerns 10:05-10:30 S. Heber, J. Stoye, J. Hoheisel, M. Vingron : Contig Selection in Physical Mapping 10:30-10:55 J. Kececioglu, S. Shete, J. Arnold : Reconstructing distances in physical maps of chromosomes with nonoverlapping probes 10:55-11:25 break 11:25-11:50 L. Marsan, M.-F. Sagot : Extracting structured motifs using a suffix tree - Algorithms and application to promoter consensus identification 11:50-12:15 X. Chen, S. Kwong, M. Li : A Compression Algorithm for DNA Sequences and Its Applications in Genome Comparison 12:15-12:40 R. Hart, A. K. Royyuru, G. Stolovitzky, A. Califano : Systematic and Automated Discovery of Patterns in PROSITE Families 12:40-14:00 lunch 14:00-14:25 M. Linial, E. Portugaly : Probabilities for having a new fold on the basis of a map of all protein sequences 14:25-14:50 G. Yona, M. Levitt : A unified sequence-structure classification of protein sequences: combining sequence and structure in a map of the protein space 14:50-15:15 A. Apostolico, G. Bejerano : Optimal Amnesic Probabilistic Automata or How to Learn and Classify Proteins in Linear Time and Space 15:15-15:45 break 15:45-16:35 S. Batzoglou, B. Berger, J. P. Mesirov, E. S. Lander : Sequencing a Genome by Walking with Clone-end Sequences: A Mathematical Analysis 16:10-16:35 M. T. Hallett, J. Lagergren : New Algorithms for the Duplication-Loss Model 16:35 End of Conference 17:00 sightseeing tour: boat ride and dinner (optional) .