Tutorial and Workshop on
Algorithms for Molecular Sequence Alignment
Nov. 5 - 6, 1992
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Sandia National Laboratories and the Computer Science Department at
the University of New Mexico are pleased to announce a tutorial and
workshop on {\em Algorithms for Molecular Sequence Alignment}, to be
held on Nov. 5 and 6, 1992, at the University of New Mexico, in
Albuquerque, NM. The tutorial is designed to introduce the problem
of molecular sequence alignment, while the workshop will focus on new
algorithmic techniques for this fundamental problem in computational
biology. The tutorial and workshop will be free and open to the public.
Graduate students and postdocs are especially encouraged to attend.
For further information about this meeting, contact Tandy Warnow
at (505) 845-7604, or by email at twarnow at cs.sandia.gov.
This workshop and tutorial will immediately precede the meeting of
the Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology on Nucleic Acid
Structure and Function, which will be held from Nov. 7-11 in Santa
Fe, New Mexico. For further information on the PMMB meeting,
please contact Sylvia SPenger at (510) 643-7799.
Thursday, Nov. 5: Tutorial
Topics to be covered include:
biological background, optimal pairwise alignments,
global and local alignment, suboptimal pairwise alignments,
distance vs. similarity, scoring matrices, database searching,
and multiple alignment: trees and profiles.
Instructor: Martin Vingron
Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California
Friday, Nov. 6: Workshop
Lectures:
"On Suboptimal Alignments of Biological Sequences"
Dalit Naor
Department of Biochemistry
Stanford University
"Multiple Alignment with Guaranteed Error Bounds"
Pavel Pevzner
Department of Computer Science
Pennsylvania State University
"Scoring Systems for Macromolecular Sequence Comparison"
Stephen Altschul
National Institute of Health
Title to be announced
John Kececioglu
Department of Computer Science
University of California at Davis
"Analysis and Biological Evaluation of Parametric Sequence Alignments"
Martin Vingron
Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California
"Dinucleotide Simple Sequence Repeats in Human DNA"
David Torney
Los Alamos National Laboratories
"3-D Profile Method and its Application in Protein Secondary Structure Prediction"
Kam Zhang
Molecular Biology Institute
University of California at Los Angeles
For further information, please contact Tandy Warnow at (505) 845-7604
or by email at twarnow at cs.sandia.gov.
