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BIOCOMP'06: June 27, 2006 Schedule

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6:30am - 5:00pm:   Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)


6:30am - 5:00pm:   Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)


SESSION 2-BIOCOMP: BIOMOLECULAR PATHWAYS AND SYSTEM BIOLOGY + PHYLOGENETIC
                   RECONSTRUCTION AND MOLECULAR EVOLUTION
                   Chairs:  Dr. Hikmet Budak* and Dr. Jack Y. Yang**
                   *Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
                   **Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, USA
                   June 27, 2006 (Tuesday); 8:00am - 10:20am
                   (LOCATION: Meeting Room 3)

08:00 - 08:20am:   Using Neural Nets to Estimate Evolutionary Parameters
                   Chi-Chiang Lee and Paul Marjoram
                   University of Southern California, USA

08:20 - 08:40am:   Inferring Ancestral Chloroplast Genomes with Inverted Repeat
                   Liying Cui**, Feng Yue*, and Jijun Tang*
                   *University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
                   **Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

08:40 - 09:00am:   Evidence for Functional Protein Fragment Homology in Viral
                   Genome Types
                   John R. Rose, Rishi Mukhopadhyay
                   University of South Carolina, USA

09:00 - 09:20am:   Dynamic Bayesian Network (DBN) with Structure Expectation
                   Maximization (SEM) for Modeling of Gene Network from Time
                   Series Gene Expression Data
                   Yu Zhang, Zhidong Deng, Hongshan Jiang, and Peifa Jia
                   Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China

09:20 - 09:40am:   Comparative Sequence Analysis of the p53 Response Elements
                   Associated with Apoptosis and Cell Cycle Arrest
                   Feng Cui, Michael Sirotin and Victor B. Zhurkin
                   National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD USA

09:40 - 10:00am:   A Relational Genomics Search Engine     
                   Jay Urbain and Nazli Goharian
                   Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute, USA

10:00 - 10:20am:   On a New Quartet-based Phylogeny Reconstruction Algorithm   
                   B. B. Zhou, M. Tarawneh, D. Chu, P. Wang, C. Wang, A. Y. Zomaya,
                   and R. P. Brent
                   University of Sydney, Australia
                   Australian National University, Australia

10:20 - 10:40am:   BREAK


10:40a - 12:20p:   Note: There are a number of other sessions (not listed
                   here) that are of significant interest to BIOCOMP conference
                   participants (sessions belonging to other joint conferences in
                   this event.)  Therefore, you are encouraged to also check the
                   schedules for other joint conferences.  (In particular,
                   schedules for PDPTA'06, ICAI'06, MLMTA'06, IPCV'06, DMIN'06,
                   and IKE'06).

12:20 - 01:20pm:   LUNCH (On Your Own)


SESSION 3-BIOCOMP: MICROARRAY DATA ANALYSIS AND GENE EXPRESSION
                   Chairs:  Dr. Mary Qu Yang* and Dr. Hikmet Budak**
                   *National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA and Purdue University, USA
                   **Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
                   June 27, 2006 (Tuesday); 1:20pm - 2:40pm
                   (LOCATION: Meeting Room 3)

01:20 - 01:40pm:   Needs Assessment for Scientific Visualization of Multivariate, 
                   High-dimensional Microarray Data 
                   Vetria L. Byrd* and Tarynn M. Witten**
                   *University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA
                   **Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA

01:40 - 02:00pm:   Reduced-Rank Multivariate Model for Time-Course Microarray Data
                   Rafal Kustra
                   University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

02:00 - 02:20pm:   Data Mining of Ests for Genetic Improvement of Salt
                   Tolerance in Wheat
                   Ahu Altinkut, Aysen Yumurtaci, Yildiz Aydin, Ismail Cakmak,
                   Meral Unal, Emel Yesil, Sema Karanlik, and Hikmet Budak
                   Tubitak, Turkey; Marmara University, Turkey;
                   Sabanci University, Turkey; Mustafa Kemal University, Turkey

02:20 - 02:40pm:   Abstracted Stochastic Analysis of Type 1 Pili Expression in E. coli
                   Hiroyuki Kuwahara, Chris Myers, and Michael Samoilov
                   University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
                   University of California, Berkeley, California, USA


02:40 - 03:20pm:   DISCUSSION SESSION B-BIOCOMP (Refreshments will be available)
                   June 27 (Tuesday)
                   (LOCATION: Hallways - Meeting Rooms 1-5)
                   List of papers appears at the end of BIOCOMP's schedule.


SESSION 4-BIOCOMP: PREDICTION OF STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF MACRO MOLECULES
                   Chairs: Dr. Jack Y. Yang* and Dr. Hikmet Budak**
                   *Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, USA
                   **Dr. Hikmet Budak, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
                   June 27, 2006 (Tuesday);  3:20pm - 6:00pm
                   (LOCATION: Meeting Room 3)

03:20 - 03:40pm:   A Multi-Strategy Approach to Protein Structural Alphabet Design
                   Shih-Yen Ku and Yuh-Jyh Hu
                   National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

03:40 - 04:00pm:   Study on Properties of Protein Folding Conformation Network
                   Wang Nengchao** and Wang Zhongjun*/**
                   *Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China
                   **Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China

04:00 - 04:20pm:   Statistical Analysis of Long-range Interactions in Proteins
                   Jinmiao Chen and Narendra S. Chaudhari
                   Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

04:20 - 04:40pm:   Identification of Intrinsically Unstructured Regions in
                   Proteins Using Primary Structure
                   Mary Qu Yang*/** and Jack Y. Yang
                   *National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA
                   **Purdue University, USA
                   ***Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, USA

04:40 - 05:00pm:   Membrane Remodeling and Diffusion of Cytochrome C from a
                   Geometrically Idealized Mitochondrial Crista
                   John C. Manor IV*, T. Frey, A. Baljon, J. Mahaffy J. Nulton, and
                   P. Salamon
                   San Diego State University, California, USA

05:00 - 05:20pm:   Prediction of Structure of Potato Large Subunit ADP-Glucose
                   Pyrophosphatase
                   Aytug Tuncel, I Halil Kavakli, and Ozlem Keskin
                   Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey

05:20 - 05:40pm:   Discrete Molecular Dynamics Study of Alzheimer Amyloid
                   B-protein (AB) Folding
                   Alfonso R. Lam, Brigita Urbanc, Jose M. Borreguero,
                   Noel D. Lazoy, David B. Teplowy, and H. Eugene Stanley
                   Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
                   Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
                   University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

05:40 - 06:00pm:   Melting Free Energies of DNA Duplexes with Oxidized Base
                   Residues and Abasic Sites: A Molecular Dynamics Characterization
                   Latifa Douali, Matt Ernst, John Miller, and Michel Dupuis
                   Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
                   Washington State University, USA


06:00 - 9:00pm:    TWO TUTORIALS (planned)

                   CONFERENCE TUTORIAL C
                   Heterogeneous Parallel and Distributed Computing: Model,
                   Resource Management, and Robustness
                   Prof. H. J. Siegel
                   Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
                   June 27, 2006 (Tuesday)
                   (LOCATION: Meeting Room 1)
 
                   CONFERENCE TUTORIAL D
                   Security, Privacy, Computing, and Data Management
                   Kenneth W. Kousky* and Bon K. Sy**
                   *CEO, IP3, Inc., USA
                   **Queens College of the City of New York, New York, USA
                   June 27, 2006 (Tuesday)
                   (LOCATION: Meeting Room 3)

DISCUSSION SESSION

                   DISCUSSION SESSION B-BIOCOMP
                     June 27 (Tuesday), 2006
                       RRR/SRP/PST Papers
                        02:40 - 03:20pm
         (LOCATION: Hallways/Lobby - Meeting Rooms 1-5)

LIST OF PAPERS IN DISCUSSION SESSION B-BIOCOMP:

O.  WebDock: A Structure-Based Drug Discovery Web Service
    Joseph Gill, Legand Burge, Zengjian Hu, and William Southerland
    Howard University Washington, DC, USA
O.  Performance of Sequence Alignment Bioinformatics Applications on
    General Purpose Processors: A Case Study
    Pradeep S. Nair and Eugene B. John
    University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas, USA
O.  An Approach to Selecting Putative RNA Motifs Using MDL Principle
    Mohammad Anwar and Marcel Turcotte
    University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
O.  Methodology for Data Modeling of miRNA
    Sarah Lopez and Z. Chen
    University of Nebraska at Omaha, Nebraska, USA
O.  Introducing Hippy: A Visualization Tool for Understanding the
    alph-Helix Pair Interface
    Robert Fraser and Janice Glasgow
    Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
O.  Homology Modeling of Myoglobin using Adaptive Neurofuzzy Systems
    Achuthsankar S. Nair** and Koshy P. Vaidyan*
    **University of Kerala, India
    *Tata Consultancy Services, India
O.  Parameterized Computation of LCS for Two Sequences
    Yuan Lin, Jeff Jenness, and Xiuzhen Huang
    Arkansas State University, USA

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