Workshop on Computational Molecular Biology

[scistra at cs.sandia.gov]

DEAR COLLEAGUE:  We are organizing a workshop on computational molecular
biology in conjunction with the SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics
to be held in Albuquerque, June 22-25, 1994.  If you are interested in
participating in the workshop please respond to scistra at cs.sandia.gov
so we can estimate the number of attendees.
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               Albuquerque, NM                 

         (Preliminary Announcement)


The first two days of the workshop (June 20-21) are organized in 
collaboration with the Departments of Biology, Biomedical Sciences, 
and Computer Science at the University of New Mexico.  The 
minisymposium of the third day (June 24) is part of the SIAM Conference 
on Discrete Mathematics, Albuquerque, NM, June 22-25 1994.  The first 
two days of the workshop are open to the public and there will be no
registration fee.  The minisymposium will require registration at the 
SIAM Conference.


 Monday June 20, University of New Mexico
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 Session 1: Tutorials/Research Directions
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  Nat Goodman (Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research)
    Distinguished Lecture: Genomic Problems to Entice the Computer Scientist: 
                           Databases, Maps, Logic, and Graphs

  Bonnie Berger (Department of Mathematics, MIT)
    A local rule based theory of virus shell assembly

  Pavel Pevzner (Department of Computer Science, Penn State University)
    Sequencing by hybridization

 Session 2: Communications
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  David Greenberg (Sandia National Labs)
    Algorithmic strategies for mapping chimeric clones

  Manny Knill (Center for Human Genome Studies, Los Alamos National Lab)
    Pooling strategies for unique sequence screening


 Tuesday June 21, University of New Mexico
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 Session 3: Tutorials/Research Directions
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  Dan Gusfield (Department of Computer Science, U. C. Davis)
    Tutorial on biomolecular sequence analysis: algorithms

  Stephen Altschul (National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH)
    Tutorial on biomolecular sequence analysis: statistics

 Session 4: Presentations
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  Nat Goodman (Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research)
    Research directions at the MIT Center for Genome Research

  Dan Gusfield (Department of Computer Science, U. C. Davis)
    Chair, Round table discussion on fostering interaction between  
    biologists and computer scientists 


 Friday June 24, Hilton Hotel
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 Session 5: Minisymposium focusing on research directions 
 *********  at the SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics

  David Botstein (Department of Genetics, Stanford University)
    Distinguished Lecture (Title: TBA)

  Stephen Altschul (National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH)
    Approaches to local multiple sequence alignment

  Craig Benham (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)
    New search strategies for DNA regulatory regions

  Dan Gusfield (Department of Computer Science, U. C. Davis)
    What's new in sequence alignment and search algorithms


Organizing Committee:  Sorin Istrail, Chair, (Sandia National Labs),
James Orlin (MIT and Whitehead Institute), Michael Sipser (MIT and 
Sandia National Labs). 

For information send email to scistra at cs.sandia.gov
or call (505) 845-7612
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