Tentative Programme
The conference will be held in Wang Gungwu Theatre, Graduate House , No. 3 University Drive, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong. The tutorials will be held in the seminar room P503 in Level P5 of the same building (Graduate House, The University of Hong Kong).
More details of the program and other useful information (e.g. maps) can be found in this booklet.
Sunday Jan 14, 2007
| 09:30 - 11:30 | Tutorial 1 |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Tutorial 2 |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | Tutorial 3 |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Reception |
Monday Jan 15, 2007
| 08:30 - 17:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Opening Speech |
| 09:15 - 10:15 | Keynote 1 (Chair: Prof. David Sankoff)
Exploring Genomes of Distantly Related Mammals |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Tea Break |
| 10:45 - 12:05 | Session 1 - Communities; motifs (Chair: Prof. Hong Yan)
Metagenome Analysis using Megan Algorithmic Approaches to Selecting Control Clonesin DNA Array Hybridization Experiments Subtle Motif Discovery for Detection of DNA Regulatory Sites An Effiective Promoter Detection Method using the Adaboost Algorithm |
| 12:05 - 13:30 | Lunch Break (Union Restaurant, The University of Hong Kong |
| 13:30 - 14:50 | Session 2 - Biclustering and Mircroarray (Chair: Prof. Michael Zhang)
A New Strategy of Geometrical Biclustering for Microarray Data Analysis Using Formal Concept Analysis for Microarray Data Comparison An Efficient Biclustering Algorithm for Finding Genes with Similar Patterns in Time-series Expression Data Selecting Genes with Dissimilar Discrimination Strength for Sample Class Prediction |
| 14:50 - 15:40 | Tea Break/Poster Session 1 (P501,P503) Industrial talk (15:00-15:35): High-Performance Computing Trends in Life and Materials Sciences Lionel Binns, Manager, World Wide Life Sciences Program Office, Hewlett Packard |
| 15:40 - 17:00 | Session 3 - Evolutionary Tree (Chair: Prof. Gavin Huttley)
Computing the All-Pairs Quartet Distance on a Set of Evolutionary Trees Computing the Quartet Distance Between Evolutionary Trees of Bounded Degree A Global Maximum Likelihood Super-Quartet Phylogeny Method A Randomized Algorithm for Comparing Sets of Phylogenetic Trees |
Tuesday Jan 16, 2007
| 08:30 - 17:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Keynote 2 (Chair: Prof. Lusheng Wang)
Protein Identification via Spectral Networks Analysis |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Tea Break |
| 10:30 - 11:50 | Session 4 - Structure Prediction and Comparison (Chair: Prof. Louxin Zhang)
Protein Structure-Structure Alignment with Discrete Frechet Distance Deriving Protein Structure Topology from the Helix Skeletion in Low Resolution Density Map using Rosetta Fitting Protein Chains to Cubic Lattice is NP-Complete Inferring a Chemical Structure from a Feature Vector Based on Frequency of Labeled Paths and Small Fragments |
| 11:50 - 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Session 5 - Mapping and disease (Chair: Prof. Concettina Guerra)
Exact and Heuristic Approaches for Identifying Disease-Associated SNP Motifs Genotype-Based Case-Control Analysis, Violation of Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium, and Phase Diagrams A Probabilistic Method to Identify Compensatory Substitutions for Pathogenic Mutations |
| 15:00 - 15:40 | Tea Break/Poster Session 2 (P501, P503) |
| 15:40 - 17:00 | Session 6 - Genome Comparison (Chair: Prof. Laxmi Parida)
Exploring Genome Rearrangements using Virtual Hybridization Two Plus Two Does not Equal Three: Statistical Tests for Multiple Genome Comparison The Distance Between Randomly Constructed Genomes Computing the Breakpoint Distance between Partially Ordered Genomes |
| 18:30 - 21:30 | Banquet Dinner talk: 19:15 - 19:45 Prof. K.Y. Yuen |
Wednesday Jan 17, 2007
| 08:30 - 12:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Keynote 3 (Chair: Prof. David Sankoff)
Bugs, Guts and Fat - A Systems Approach to the Metabolic 'Axis of Evil' |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Tea Break |
| 10:30 - 11:50 | Session 7 - Biological Network (Chair: Prof. Alfonso Valencia)
Infering Gene Regulatory Networks by Machine Learning Methods A Novel Clustering Method for Analysis of Biological Networks Using Maximal Components of Graphs Gene Regulatory Network Inference via Regression Based Topological Refinement Algorithm Engineering for Color-Coding to Facilitate Signaling Pathway Detection |
| 11:50 - 13:30 | Lunch Break (Joseph's Restaurant, Graduate House) |
| 13:30 - 14:50 | Session 8 - MS; protein-protein interaction (Chair: Prof. Jenn-Kang Hwang)
De Novo Peptide Sequencing for Mass Spectra Based on Multi-Charge Strong Tags Complexities and Algorithms for Glycan Structure Sequencing using Tandem Mass Spectrometry Semi-supervised Pattern Learning for Extracting Relations from Bioscience Texts Flow Model of the Protein-protein Interaction Network for Finding Credible Interactions |
| 14:50 - 15:30 | Tea Break/Poster Session 3 (P501, P503) |
| 15:30 - 16:50 | Session 9 - Alignment and search (Chair: Prof. Jinyan Li)
All Hits All The Time: Parameter Free Calculation of Seed Sensitivity Fast Structural Similarity Search Based on Topology String Matching Simple and Fast Alignment of Metabolic Pathways by Exploiting Local Dissimilarity Combining N-grams and Alignment in G-protein Coupling Specificity Prediction |
| 16:50 - 17:00 | Closing remark/promotion |
