The Fourth International Conference on Computational Biology:
Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology '96
ISMB'96 Schedule
http://www.ibc.wustl.edu/ismb96/schedule.html
The order of the keynote talks is not final yet.
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Wednesday, June 12, 1996
9:00am - 10:00am: Continental breakfast
Registration
10:00am - 1:00pm: Morning Tutorials
Concurrent
T-1 Intro to Molecular Biology (Roth)
T-2 Intro to Machine Learning for Molecular Biology (Shavlik & Salzberg)
T-3 Intro to Molecular Evolution and Phylogenic Reconstruction (McClure)
T-4 Hidden Markov Models, Part 1: Using and understanding HMMs (UCSC group)
11:20am - 11:40am: Coffee break
1:00pm - 2:00pm: Lunch
2:00pm - 5:00pm: Afternoon Tutorials
Concurrent
T-5 Automated Microbial Genome Analysis (Gaasterland & Sensen)
T-6 Computation with Metabolic Pathways (Ouzounis & Karp)
T-7 Recurrent Processes in Genome Evolution (Sankoff)
T-8 Hidden Markov Models, Part 2: Building HMMs (UCSC group)
3:20pm - 3:40pm: Coffee break
6:00pm - 8:00pm: Mixer
7:45pm - 8:00pm: Opening remarks
David States
8:00pm - 9:00pm: Keynote
Chris Sander, EMBL-EBI (not final)
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Thursday, June 13, 1996
8:00am - 9:00am : Continental breakfast
Registration
9:00am - 10:40am: Talks 1
1. "Improving the Quality of Automatic DNA Sequence Assembly Using
Fluorescent Trace-Data Classifications". Carolyn F. Allex, Schuyler F.
Baldwin, Jude W. Shavlik, and Frederick R. Blattner.
2. "The Megaprior Heuristic for Discovering Protein Sequence Patterns".
Timothy L. Bailey and Michael Gribskov.
3. "From Electron Density and Sequence to Structure: Integrating Protein
Image Analysis and Threading for Structure Determination". Kim Baxter,
Evan Steeg, Richard Lathrop, Janice Glasgow, and Suzanne Fortier.
4. "Discovering Patterns and Subfamilies in Biosequences". Alvis Brazma,
Inge Jonassen, Esko Ukkonen, and Jaak Vilo.
10:40am - 11:10am: Coffee break
11:10am - 12:30pm: Talks 2
5. "A Sequence Similarity Search Algorithm Based on a Probabilistic
Interpretation of an Alignment Scoring System". Philipp Bucher and Kay
Hofmann.
6. "The Mathematical Model of Subtractive Hybridization and its Practical
Application". Olga D. Ermolaeva, Sergy A. Lukyanov and Eugene D.
Sverdlov.
7. "Using Iterative Dynamic Programming to Obtain Accurate Pairwise and
Multiple Alignments of Protein Structures". Mark Gerstein and Michael
Levitt.
12:30pm - 1:30pm: Lunch
1:30pm - 2:30pm: Contributed Posters
2:30pm - 3:20pm: Demos 1
D 1. "Java Genome Browser"
Gregg Helt
D 2. "A Top-Down Approach to Whole Genome Visualization".
Klaus Heumann, C. Harris, and H.W. Mewes.
(proceedings paper)
3:20pm - 3:45pm: Coffee break
3:45pm - 5:00pm: Talks 3
8. "A Generalized Hidden Markov Model for the Recognition of Human Genes
in DNA". David Kulp, David Haussler, Martin G. Reese, and Frank H.
Eeckman.
9. "Good Maps are Straight". Eric Harley, Anthony J. Bonner, and Nathan
Goodman.
10. "A Probabilistic Classification System for Predicting the Cellular
Localization Sites of Proteins". Paul Horton and Kenta Nakai.
5:00pm - 8:00pm: Free time
8:00pm - 9:00pm: Keynote
David Haussler, U. of California, Santa Cruz (not final)
Using Hidden Markov Models for Biosequence Analysis
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Friday, June 14, 1996
8:00am - 9:00am: Continental breakfast
9:00am - 10:15am: Talks 4
11. "HinCyc: A Knowledge Base of the Complete Genome and Metabolic Pathways
of H. influenzae". Peter D. Karp, Christos Ouzounis, and Suzanne Paley.
12. "Inferring Relatedness of a Macromolecule to a Sequence Database
Without Sequencing". Jin Kim, James R. Cole, Eric Torng, and Sakti
Pramanik.
13. "Compact Encoding Strategies for DNA Sequence Similarity Search".
David J. States and Pankaj Agarwal.
10:15am - 10:45am: Coffee break
10:45am - 12:15pm: Talks 5
14. "A Grammar-Based Unification of Several Alignment and Folding
Algorithms". Fabrice Lefebvre.
15. "Applications of GeneMark in Multispecies Environments". James D.
McIninch, William S. Hayes and Mark Borodovsky.
16. "Genome-Scale DNA Sequence Recognition by Hybridization to Short
Oligomers". Aleksandar Milosavljevic, Suzana Savkovic, Radomir
Crkvenjakov, David Salbego, Hope Serrato, Heidi Kreuzer, Anne Gemmell,
Shawna Batus, Danica Grujic, Susan Carnahan, and Jovanka Tepavcevic.
12:15pm - 1:30pm: Lunch
1:30pm - 2:30pm: Posters
P 1. "Parameterization Studies for the SAM and HMMER Methods of Hidden Markov
Model Generation". Marcella A. McClure, Chris Smith, and Pete Elton.
(proceedings paper, poster presentation by special request)
plus other contributed posters
2:30pm - 3:20pm: Demos 2
D 3. "Heterogeneous Information Sources for Cytokine Research",
Gary K. Allen
D 4. "ParaMEME: Discovering Protein Sequence Patterns"
William Grundy
3:20pm - 3:45pm: Coffee break
3:45pm - 5:00pm: Talks 6
17. "Characterization of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Promoters Using Hidden
Markov Models". Anders Gorm Pedersen, Pierre Baldi, Soren Brunak, and
Yves Chauvin.
18. "Refining Neural Network Predictions for Helical Transmembrane Proteins
by Dynamic Programming". Burkhard Rost, Rita Casadio, and Piero
Fariselli.
19. "Finding Genes in DNA Using Decision Trees and Dynamic Programming".
Steven Salzberg, Xin Chen, John Henderson, and Kenneth Fasman.
5:00pm - 8:00pm: Free time
8:00pm - 9:00pm: Keynote
Russell Doolitle, U. of California, San Diego (not final)
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Saturday, June 15, 1996
8:00am - 9:00am: Continental breakfast
9:00am - 10:00am: Keynote
Robert Waterston, Washington University (not final)
10:00am - 10:50pm: Talks 7
20. "Ontological Foundations for Biology Knowledge Models". Carole D.
Hafner and Natalya Fridman.
21. "A Knowledge-Based Method for Protein Structure Refinement and
Prediction". Shankar Subramaniam, David K. Tcheng and James M. Fenton.
10:50am - 11:10am: Coffee break
11:10am - 12:00pm: Demos 3
D 5. "Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database"
Lynda Ellis, Lawrence Wackett
D 6. "Genemark: Identification of Unnoticed Genes in Prokaryotes"
William Hayes, James McIninch, Mark Borodovsky
12:00pm - 1:30pm: Lunch
1:30pm - 2:45pm: Demos 4
D 7. "GeneFisher - Software Support for the Detection of Postulated Genes".
Robert Giegerich, Folker Meyer, and Chris Schleiermacher.
(proceedings paper)
D 8. "MOOSE and WPDB: search engine and browser for the PDB"
Ilya Shindyalov
D 9. "WWW-based Virtual Computing and Analysis Environment for Sequence"
Shankar Subramaniam and Kurt Jamison
2:45pm - 3:15pm: Coffee break
3:15pm - 4:30pm: Talks 9
22. "Discovering Empirically Conserved Amino Acid Substitution Groups in
Databases of Protein Families". Thomas D. Wu and Douglas L. Brutlag.
23. "Gene Recognition in Cyanobacterium Genomic Sequence Data Using the
Hidden Markov Model". Tetsushi Yada and Makoto Hirosawa.
24. "Gene Prediction by Pattern Recognition and Homology Search". Ying Xu
and Edward C. Uberbacher.
6:00pm - 7:00pm: Cocktails
7:00pm - 9:00pm: Banquet
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Pankaj Agarwal
ISMB'96 Organizing Committee
