ISMB 99: Detailed Schedule

Saturday 07.08.1999
Sunday 08.08.1999
Monday 09.08.1999
Tuesday 10.08.1999

Friday 06.08.1999

Tutorial Day:

Morning

8:30 - 12:30

(Coffee break around 10:30)

Lunch

Afternoon

13:30 - 17:30

(Coffee break around 15:30)

Saturday 07.08.1999

9:00	Opening Chair: Thomas Lengauer
9:50	Keynote Manfred Eigen The Origin of Biological Information
10:40	Coffee Break
	Protein Structures Chair: Rick Lathrop
11:00	Keynote Michael J.E. Sternberg Exploiting Protein Structure in the Post-genome Era
11:50	TEXTAL: A Pattern Recognition System for Interpreting Electron Density Maps Thomas R. Ioerger, Thomas Holton, Jon A. Christopher, James C. Sacchettini
12:15	Crystallographic Threading A. Ableson, J.I. Glasgow
12:40	Lunch Press Conference Chair: Peer Bork
14:00	Keynote Eugene V. Koonin Comparative genomics: Is it changing the paradigm of evolutionary biology?
	Protein Structures Chair: Janice Glasgow
14:50	Multiple Structural Alignment and Core Detection by Geometric Hashing Nathaniel Leibowitz, Zipora Y. Fligelman, Ruth Nussinov, Haim J. Wolfson
15:15	Using Sequence Motifs for Enhanced Neural Network Prediction of Protein Distance Constraints Jan Gorodkin, Ole Lund, Claus A. Andersen, Soren Brunak
15:40	Nearest Neighbor Classification in 3D Protein Databases Mihael Ankerst, Gabi Kastenmueller, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Thomas Seidl
16:05	A Data Base of Minimally Frustrated Alpha-Helical Segments Extracted from Proteins According to an Entropy Criterion Rita Casadio, Mario Compiani, Piero Fariselli, Pier Luigi Martelli
16:30	Coffee Break
16:50	Posters and Demos
18:30	End of Scientific Day

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Sunday 08.08.1999

	Arrays and Expression Patterns Chair: Reinhard Schneider
9:00	Keynote Robert J. Lipshutz Genes, Chips and Genomes
9:50	Pharmaceutical target discovery using Guilt-by-Association: Schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease genes Michael G. Walker, Wayne Volkmuth, Tod M. Klingler
10:15	Fidelity Probes for DNA Arrays Earl Hubbell, Pavel A. Pevzner
10:40	Coffee Break
	Remote Homologies Chair: Ralf Zimmer
11:00	Database search based on Bayesian alignment Jun Zhu, Roland Luethy, Charles E. Lawrence
11:25	Using the Fisher kernel method to detect remote protein homologies Tommi Jaakkola, Mark Diekhans, David Haussler
11:50	Protein Fold Class Prediction: New Methods of Statistical Classification J. Grassmann, M. Reczko, S. Suhai, L. Edler
12:40	Lunch Job Fair Chair: Thomas Lengauer
14:00	Keynote Richard M. Karp Combinatorial Problems in Gene Expression Analysis Using DNA Microarrays
	Sequence Analysis Algorithms Chair: Chris Rawlings
14:50	A Linear Time Algorithm for Finding All Maximal Scoring Subsequences Walter L. Ruzzo, Martin Tompa
15:15	Rapid Assessment of Extremal Statistics for Gapped Local Alignment Rolf Olsen, Ralf Bundschuh, Terence Hwa
15:40	Metrics and similarity measures for hidden Markov models Rune B. Lyngso, Christian N. S. Pedersen, Henrik Nielsen
16:05	An Exact Method for Finding Short Motifs in Sequences with Application to the Ribosome Binding Site Problem Martin Tompa
16:30	Coffee Break
16:50	Posters and Demos
18:30	End of Scientific Day
20:00	ISCB Plenary Meeting

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Monday 09.08.1999

	Databases Chair: Peter Karp
9:00	Keynote Amos Bairoch SWISS-PROT in the 21st century!
9:50	Automatic extraction of biological information from Scientific text: protein-protein interactions Christian Blaschke, Miguel A. Andrade, Christos Ouzounis, Alfonso Valencia
10:15	Constructing Biological Knowledge Bases by Extracting Information from Text Sources Mark Craven, Johan Kumlien
10:40	Coffee Break
	Systems and Networks Chair: Peer Bork
11:00	Identify by Descent Genome Segmentation Based on Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Distributions Thomas W. Blackwell, Eric Rouchka, David J. States
11:25	Spatio-temporal Registration of the Expression Patterns of Drosophila Segmentation Genes Ekaterina M. Myasnikova, David Kosman, John Reinitz, Maria G. Samsonova
11:50	Seamless Integration of Biological Applications into a Database Framework Thodoros Topaloglou, Anthony Kosky, Victor Markowitz
12:40	Lunch
14:00	Solar Eclipse Lecture (further info on eclipse)
15:30	Excursion

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Tuesday 10.08.1999

	Whole Genome Analysis Chair: Hans-Werner Mewes
9:00	Keynote Anthony R. Kerlavage Computational Genomics: Biological Discovery in Complete Genomes
	Motifs and Function Prediction
9:50	Building Dictionaries Of 1D and 3D Motifs By Mining The Unaligned 1D Sequences Of 17 Archeal and Bacterial Genomes Isidore Rigoutsos, Yuan Gao, Aris Floratos, Laxmi Parida
10:15	Position-specific annotation of protein function based on multiple homologs Miguel A. Andrade
10:40	Coffee Break
	Molecular Interactions Chair: Douglas Brutlag
11:00	A Motion Planning Approach to Flexible Ligang Binding Amit P. Singh, Jean-Claude Latombe, Douglas L. Brutlag
11:25	Database Screening for HIV Protease Ligands: The Influence of Binding-Site Conformation and Representation Volker Schnecke, Leslie A. Kuhn
11:50	INTERACT: an object oriented protein-protein interaction database Karen Eilbeck, Andy Brass, Norman Paton, Charlie Hodgman
12.15	Quantitative, scalable discrete-event simulation of metabolic pathways Peter Meric, Michael Wise
12:40	Lunch Chair: Peer Bork
14:00	Keynote Matthias Mann Gene Function via the Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Multi-Protein Complexes
	DNA Sequencing, Mapping, ESTs Chair: Martin Vingron
14:50	An Algorithm Combining Discrete and Continuous Methods for Optical Mapping R.M. Karp, I. Pe`er, R. Shamir
15:15	Genomics via Optical Mapping III: Contiging Genomic DNA and Variations Thomas Anantharaman, Bud Mishra, David Schwartz
15:40	A Dataset Generator for Whole Genome Shotgun Sequencing Gene Myers
16:05	ESTScan: a program for detecting , evaluating, and reconstructing potential coding regions in EST sequences Christian Iseli, C. Victor Jongeneel, Philipp Bucher
16:30	Coffee Break
	Phylogenetic Analysis and Clustering Chair: Gary Stormo
16:50	Solving Large Scale Phylogenetic Problems using DCM Daniel H. Huson, Lisa Vawter, Tandy J. Warnow
17:15	A Phylogentic Approach to Molecular Structure Prediction Viatcheslav R. Akmaev, Scott T. Kelley, Gary D. Stormo
17:40	Reconstructing the Duplication History of a Tandem Repeat Gary Benson, Lan Dong
18:05	Analysis of ribosomal RNA sequences by combinatorial clustering Poe Xing, Casimir Kulikowski, Ilya Muchnik, Inna Dubchak, Denise Wolf, Sylvia Spengler, Manfred Zorn
18:30	Closing Remarks
18:45	End of Conference

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