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WORKSHOP ON MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANALYSIS
Hartley Conference Center
Mitchell School of Earth Sciences
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
August 5 - 6, 1993
THURSDAY: AUGUST 5, 1993
Session I. Protein Structure (12:30 - 3:00)
Chairman: F. Cohen
T. Smith A Protein Core Structure Library and Its Use in
Nonhomologous Extension Modeling
S. Bryant A Residue Contact Potential for Threading Protein
Sequence Through Folding Motif
T. Lybrand Generation of Three-Dimensional Protein Models
Using Computational Methods and Experimental Data
C. Ring Application of Homology-Built Structures
J. Blaney Conformationally Flexible Docking and Evolution of
Molecules to Fit a Binding Site of Known Structure.
Break - 45 minutes
Session II. Sequence Alignment (3:45 - 7:15)
Chairman: M. Waterman
C. Lawrence Gibbs Free Energy and the Gibbs Sampler Converge to
Align Multiple Biopolymer Sequences
D. Sankoff Genomic Distances
G. Stormo Identifying Domains in RNA Composed of Sequence and
Structure
Break - 30 minutes
G. Gonnet (tentative) The IMD Sequence Alignment Algorithm:
Theory and Practice
S. Henikoff Amino Acid Substitution Matrices without
Extrapolation
V. Brendel Score Statistics for Molecular Sequence Analysis
FRIDAY: AUGUST 6, 1993
Session III. Repeating Structures and Sequence Inhomogeneity (9:00 - 12:30)
Chairman: S. Karlin
M. Calos Evolution of Repeats and Transposable Elements from
Bacteria to Humans
J. Jurka Identification and Analysis of Human Interspersed
Repetitive Elements
P. Green Analysis of C. Elegans Genomic Sequence
Break - 30 minutes
P. Pevzner Genome Inhomogeneity and Overlapping Words Paradox
G. Schachtel Assessing Inhomogeneities in Long DNA Sequences
D. States TBA
Session IV. Informal Presentations and Discussion (2:30 - 6:00)
Chairman: S. Altschul
Break - 4:30
There is no registration fee. However, for those who need lodging,
dormitory rooms are available on the Stanford campus at $42.50 single and
$35.00 shared. Those planning to attend and requiring a room are advised
to make a reservation as soon as possible by contacting Samuel Karlin.
Attendees with a reservation may pick up room keys at Elliot Program Center.
Telephone FAX email
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Samuel Karlin (415) 723-2204 (415) 725-2040 fd.zgg at forsythe.stanford.edu
Fred Cohen (415) 426-8519 (415) 476-6515 cohen at cgl.ucsf.edu
Michael Waterman (213) 740-2408 (213) 740-2437 msw at hto.usc.edu
Stephen Altschul (301) 496-2475 (301) 480-9241 altschul at nlm.nih.gov
