GEORGIA TECH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN BIOINFORMATICS
GENE DISCOVERY IN SILICO
NOVEMBER 6 - 9, 1997
ATLANTA
The focus of the conference is on gene identification
and prediction of protein function using computer methods.
SPONSORS:
Georgia Tech College of Science
Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at Georgia Tech
SmithKline Beecham
Gene Pro, Inc.
Glaxo-Wellcome
DATES:
Early registration ends:
October 9, 1997
Conference schedule:
Registration opens at 6:00pm on Thursday, November 6,
(with the reception at 8:00pm).
The program starts 8:00am Friday, November 7
and ends at noon Sunday, November 9.
LOCATION:
The conference will be held at
Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown
located near the center of 1996 Olympic development,
close to Fox Theatre & Georgia Tech
AGENDA:
The conference agenda includes plenary talks (50 minutes for each
talk and discussion) as well as poster session and round table discussion.
WWW page now contain all titles as well as abstracts of the
majority of the plenary talks.
http://intron.biology.gatech.edu/~william/conference.html
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Evening - Nov 6
Reception
Morning - Nov 7
Peer Bork EMBL, Heidelberg & MDC, Berlin, Germany
Predicting function from sequence
Geoff Barton University of Oxford, Oxford, UK & EBI, Cambridge, UK
Treading the benchmark tightrope: Making progress
by measuring the accuracy of sequence analysis algorithms
Jim Fickett SmithKline Beecham, King of Prussia, PA
Analysis of Transcriptional Regulatory Regions
Michael Zhang Cold Spring Harbor Lab, Long Island, NY
On A New Strategy of Promoter Recognition
Afternoon - Nov 7
Pavel Pevzner University of Southern California, Los-Angeles, CA
The Twenty Questions Game with Genes
Steven Salzberg Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Decision Trees and Markov Chains for Eukaryotic Gene Finding
Steven Henikoff Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
Blocks-based methods for detecting homology and inferring function
Stephen Altschul NCBI/NIH, Bethesda, MD
More BLAST for Your Buck
Late afternoon - Nov 7 (17:30 - 19:30)
Poster Session
Morning - Nov 8
Soren Brunak Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
DNA Structure and Sequence Periodicity in Human Promoters
Sam Karlin Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Codon biases and gene clusters
Jean-Michel Claverie Struct & Genetic Information, CNRS, Marseille, France
Self-identification of protein coding region in bacterial
genomes
Mark Borodovsky Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Three steps to complete gene identification in a new
bacterial genome with GeneMark^3
Afternoon - Nov 8
Philipp Bucher ISREC, Lausanne, Switzerland
Using generalized profiles for functional annotation
of genome sequences
Michael Gribskov San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego, CA
Pattern Recognition Tools for Protein Sequences
Gary Stormo University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Combining various types of evidence to predict
gene structures
Eugene Koonin NCBI/NIH, Bethesda, MD
A genomic perspective on protein families
Late afternoon - Nov 8 (17:30- 19:30)
Round table discussion
- "Annotating genomes
Rapid first pass annotation of large scale sequences"
Morning - Nov 9
Terry Gaasterland Argonne National Lab & Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Automated Analysis of Whole Genomes: Experiences and Lessons
Anthony Kerlavage The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, MD
Gene Finding and Functional Identification in Prokaryotic
and Eukaryotic Genomes
Roderic Guigo Inst Municipal d'Investigcio Medica, Barcelona, Spain
Integrating multiple evidence to predict and annotate
genes in genomic sequences
Victor Solovyev Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA & Sanger Centre, UK
A new version of GeneFinder for analysis of genomic
DNA with multiple genes
STEERING & PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Mark Borodovsky, Co-Chair, Georgia Tech
Soren Brunak Technical University of Denmark
Jim Fickett SmithKline Beecham
Eugene Koonin, Co-Chair, NCBI/NIH
GEORGIA TECH ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Chair
Prof. Mark Borodovsky, School of Biology & Mathematics
Advisory board
Prof. Leonid Bunimovich, School of Mathematics
Prof. Shamkant Navathe, College of Computing
Poster session
Dr. Alex Lukashin, School of Biology,
Publicity
William Hayes, School of Biology,
william at intron.biology.gatech.edu
Registration and general events
Laura Olson, Department of Continuing Education,
laura.olson at conted.gatech.edu
Bonnie Griffin, School of Mathematics
griffin at math.gatech.edu
We thank Dr. Sorin Istrail and Dr. Ying Xu for help
in compiling the e-mail distribution list.
POSTER SUBMISSION
To apply for participation in a poster session,
please send the title and one page abstract of your poster,
by October 3, to Dr. Alex Lukashin,
by e-mail: lukashin at amber.biology.gatech.edu (preferred method)
or by FAX: (404) 894-0519.
You may send the abstract earlier. The acceptance of the high
quality poster will be confirmed within five days upon submission.
REGISTRATION
Registration Fee:
Early (until October 9) $295, Academic/government - $245
Late: $345, Academic/government - $295
The registration fee includes handout materials and meals provided by
Renaissance hotel chefs for the whole conference time.
Hotel Reservations:
This conference will be held at the Renaissance Atlanta Hotel
Downtown.
Call Renaissance Atlanta Hotel 404-881-6000 for reservation with Georgia
Tech room rate of $99/night by October 3, 1997. Please mention the
Bioinformatics/Georgia Tech conference.
Travel Discounts:
Delta Air Lines offers special fares to attendees of Georgia Tech
programs. Certain restrictions may apply. For information and
reservations, call 1-800-241-6760 and refer to file U0175 (for
domestic flights only).
To obtain more information & the registration form, visit the WWW page:
http://intron.biology.gatech.edu/~william/conference.html
or contact us by
e-mail: register at conted.swann.gatech.edu
Phone: (404) 894-2400
Fax: (404) 894-8925
