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RECOMB 98 SCHEDULE
Saturday, March 21, 1998
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Welcome Reception
Renaissance Room
Sunday, March 22, 1998
8:45 am Opening Remarks
Embassy Ballroom
Pavel Pevzner, RECOMB 1998 Program Committee Chair
Gary Benson, RECOMB 1998 Conference Chair
Sorin Istrail, RECOMB 1999 Program Committee Chair
9:00 am Distinguished New Technologies Lecture
Pavel Pevzner, Chair
David Cox
The Human Genetic Variation: Oligonucleotide Chips and Human Disease
10:00 am Break
Session 1, Chair: Martin Vingron
10:10 am Identifying Satellites in Nucleic Acid Sequences
M. Sagot, G. Meyers
10:35 am Genome Analysis Using Clusters of Orthologous
Groups (COGs)
E. Koonin, R. Tatusov, M. Y. Galperin, M. N. Rozanov
11:00 am Break
Session 2, Chair: Gene Myers
11:15 am Non-Adjoining Correlations Within Signals in DNA
P. Agarwal and V. Bafna
11:40 am An Algorithm for Finding Tandem Repeats of Unspecified
Pattern Size
G. Benson
12:05 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Invited Lecture Session
Sorin Istrail, Chair
Charles Cantor
Enhancements in Sequence Analysis With DNA Arrays
2:30 pm Break
Session 3, Chair: Gary Benson
2:40 pm Motif Discovery in Biological Sequences Without
Alignment or Enumeration
I. Rigoutsos, A. Floratos
3:05 pm An Algorithm for Finding Novel Gapped Motifs in
DNA Sequences
E. Rocke, M. Tompa
3:30 pm A Polyhedral Approach to RNA Sequence Structure
Alignment
H. Lenhof, K. Reinert, M. Vingron
3:55 pm Break
4:10 pm Stanislav Ulam Computational Biology Address
Michael Waterman, Chair
Joshua Lederberg
8:00 pm-10:00 pm Business Meeting
Renaissance Room
Monday, March 23, 1998
Embassy Ballroom
9:00 am Distinguished Conference Lecture
Richard Karp, Chair
Ron Davis
Whole Genome Analysis: Expression, Replication, Recombination,
Allelic Variation, and Drug Discovery Function
10:00 am Break
Session 4, Chair: David Searls
10:10 am Assessment of Ab Initio Protein Structure Prediction
A. M. Lesk
10:35 am A Self-Consistent Field Optimization Approach to Build
Energetically and Geometrically Correct Lattice Models
of Proteins
B. A. Reva, A. V. Finkelstein, J. Skolnick
11:00 am Break
11:15 am Modeling DNA Shuffling
F. Sun
11:40 am Multiple Genome Rearrangements
D. Sankoff, M. Blanchette
12:05 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Invited Lecture Session
Eugene Koonin, Chair
Ruben Abagyan
Challenges of biomolecular structure prediction
2:30 pm Break
Session 5, Chair: Martin Farach
2:40 pm From Four-taxon Trees to Phylogenies: The Case
of Mammalian Evolution
A. Ben-Dor, B. Chor, D. Graur, R. Ophir, D. Pelleg
3:05 pm On Reconstructing Species Trees From Gene Trees In Term
of Duplications
B. Ma, M. Li, L. Zhang
3:30 pm The Ordinal Quartet Method
P. E. Kearney
3:55 pm Break
4:10 pm Invited Lecture Session
Bonnie Berger, Chair
Michael Levitt
Bridging the Gap Between Sequence and Structure
6:00 pm-10:00 pm Poster Session
Renaissance Room
Tuesday, March 24, 1998
Embassy Ballroom
9:00 am Invited Lecture Session
Ron Shamir, Chair
David Schwartz
New Approaches to Genomic Analaysis Using Single Molecules
10:00 am Break
Session 6, Chair: Minoru Kanehisa
10:10 am Algorithms for Optical Mapping
R. M. Karp, R. Shamir
10:35 am Estimation for Restriction Sites Observed by Optical Mapping
Using Reversible-jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo
J. K. Lee, V. Dancik, M. S. Waterman
11:00 am Break
11:15 am Partitioning K Clones: Hardness Results and
a Practical Solution to the K-Popultaion Problem
L. Parida, B. Mishra
11:40 am Constructing Maps Using the Span and Inclusion Relations
D. Fasulo, T. Jiang, R. M. Karp, N. Sharma
12:05 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Invited Lecture Session
Webb Miller, Chair
John Yates
Mass spectrometry and the proteome
2:30 pm Break
Session 7, Chair: Thomas Lengauer
2:40 pm How Fast a Protein Chain Can Fold to Its Most Stable Structure?
A. V. Finkelstein, A. Ya. Badretdinov
3:00 pm Algorithmic Determination of Core Positions in
the VL and VH Domains of Immunoglobulin Molecules
I. Gelfand, A. Kister, C. Kulikowski, O. Stoyanov
3:30 pm Alignments Without Low-Scoring Regions
Z. Zhang, P. Berman, W. Miller
3:55 pm Dynamic Programmimg Alignment Accuracy
I. Holmes and R. Durbin
4:20 pm Break
4:30 pm Invited Lecture Session
David Haussler, Chair
Klaus Gubernator
Evolutionary drug discovery
Wednesday, March 25, 1998
Embassy Ballroom
Session 8, Chair: Dan Gusfield
8:30 am Protein Folding in the Hydrophobic-Hydrophilic (HP) Model
is NP-Complete
B. Berger, T. Leighton
8:55 am On the Complexity of Protein Folding
P. Crescenzi, D. Goldman, C. Papadimitriou, A. Piccolboni, M. Yannakakis
9:20 am A New Method for Modeling and Solving the Protein Fold
Recognition Problem
Y. Xu, D. Xu, E. C. Uberbacher
9:45 am Optimal Detection of Sequence Similarity by Local Alignment
T. Hwa, M. Lassig
10:10 am Break
Session 9, Chair: Terry Speed
10:20 am A Formally Exact Method to Numerically Analyze Local
Denaturation in Superhelical DNA
R. M. Fye, C. J. Benham
10:45 am The Theoretical Limits of DNA Sequence Discrimination
of Polyamides
W. L. Walker, D. S. Goodsell, E. M. Landaw
11:10 am Maxwell Demon and Topology Simplification by
Type II Topoisomerases
A. Vologodskii
11:35 am A Unified Approach to Word Statistics
M. Regnier
12:00 pm Lunch
Session 10, Chair: Phil Green
1:00 pm Regression Analysis of Multiple Protein Structures
T. D. Wu, S. C. Schmidler, T. Hastie, D. L. Brutlag
1:25 pm Better Methods for Solving Parsimony and Compatiblity
M. Bonet, M. Steel, T. Warnow, S. Yooseph
1:50 pm Beyond Mutation Matrices: Physical-Chemistry Based
Evolutionary Models
J. M. Koshi, D. P. Mindell, R. A. Goldstein
2:15 pm A Structure Based Similarity Measure for Nucleic Acid
Sequence Comparison
R. Liu, T. W. Blackwell and D. J. States
2:40 pm Break
Session 11, Chair: David Benson
2:55 pm The Hierarchical Organization of Molecular Structure
Computations
C. C. Chen, J. P. Singh, R. B. Altman
3:20 pm Estimaiton of Allele Frequencies From Color-Multiplexed
Electropherograms
D. G. Politte, D. R. Maffitt, D. J. States
3:45 pm Analysis of the Position Dependent Amino Acid Probabilities
and its Applicationts to the Search for Remote Homologues
S. R. Sunyaev, I. V. Rodchenkov, F. Eisenhaber, E. N. Kuznetsov
4:10 pm Family-based Homology Detection via Pairwise Sequence
Comparison
W. N. Grundy
End of RECOMB 98
