BIOCOMP'08: July 15, 2008 Schedule

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6:45am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)


SESSION 3-BIOCOMP: METABLOMICS, PROTEOMIC AND PROTEIN FUNCTION
                  Chairs: Dr. Harold J. Drabkin* and Jens Lichtenberg**
                  *The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor Maine, USA
                  **Ohio University, USA
                  July 15, 2008 (Tuesday); 08:00am - 09:00am
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

08:00 - 08:20am:  K-Nearest Neighbor Classifier Ensemble for Prediction of
                  Phosphorylation Sites
                  Zhiwen Yu*, Zhongkai Deng, and Hau-San Wong
                  City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

08:20 - 08:40am:  The Role of Protein Electrostatics in Facilitating the
                  Catalysis of DEAD-Box Proteins
                  Christopher M. Frenz; New York City College of Tech., Brooklyn, USA

08:40 - 09:00am:  Functional Annotation of Protein Isoforms and Modified Forms
                  Harold J. Drabkin*, Cecilia N. Arighi**, Cathy H. Wu**,
                  and Judith A Blake*
                  *Mouse Genome Informatics, The Jackson Lab., Bar Harbor, ME, USA
                  **Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC, USA


SESSION 4-BIOCOMP: STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF MACRO MOLECULES + STRUCTURE ALIGNMENT
                  Chairs: Dr. Jianhua Ruan* and Rishi Mukhopadhyay**
                  *University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
                  **University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
                  July 15, 2008 (Tuesday); 09:00am - 09:40am
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

09:00 - 09:20am:  A Dynamic Programming Approach to the Study of Protein Sequence
                  Variations
                  Arthur W. Chou* and Shan Lu**
                  *Clark University, USA; **University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA

09:20 - 09:40am:  A Deterministic Algorithm for DNA Sequence Comparison
                  A. Kheniche, Abdel Salhi*, A. Harrison, and J. M. Dowden
                  The University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom


SESSION 5-BIOCOMP: APPLICATION OF ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES AND MATHEMATICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
                  Chair: Dr. Qiang Cheng, Southern Illinois University, USA
                  July 15, 2008 (Tuesday); 09:40am - 10:20am
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

09:40 - 10:00am:  Significance-Testing of Periodogram for Short Time Series
                  Andrzej Kudlicki*, Maga Rowicka, and Zbyszek Otwinowski
                  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA

10:00 - 10:20am:  Gait Analysis on the Use of Four-castered Walker and
                  Elderly-Simulation Suit
                  Tetsuya Hirotomi* and Yasutomo Hosomi
                  Shimane University, Shimane, Japan

10:20 - 10:40am:  BREAK


SESSION 6-BIOCOMP: ALGORITHMS AND MODELS + TOOLS + INTELLIGENT DRUG DESIGN
                  Chairs: Prof. Mukesh Doble* and Dr. Lavanya Devi Golagani**
                  *Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
                  **Andhra University, India
                  July 15, 2008 (Tuesday); 10:40am - 11:20am
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

10:40 - 11:00am:  Ronald: A Domain-Specific Language to Study the Interactions
                  Between Malaria Infections and Drug Treatments
                  T. Antao*, P. McBurney, and I. Hastings
                  *Liverpool School of Tropical, UK

11:00 - 11:20am:  A Quantitative Semantics of Formal Ontology of Drug Interactions
                  Koji Tashima*, Naoko Izumi**, and Naoki Yonezaki***
                  */***Tokyo Institute of Tech., Japan; **Jumonji University, Japan


SESSION 7-BIOCOMP: MOTOR CONTROL AND BRAIN
                  Chair: TBA
                  July 15, 2008 (Tuesday); 11:20am - 12:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

11:20 - 11:40am:  The Slower Side Marches to a Distant Drummer: A Fresh Look
                  at the Results of a Paper and Pencil Test for Laterality of
                  Motor Control
                  Iraj Derakhshan (M.D., Neurologist); Charleston, West Virginia, USA

11:40 - 12:00pm:  Right Handers Breath with Left Hemisphere: Handedness and
                  the Risk of Sudden Death in Hemispheric Stroke in NASCET
                  Iraj Derakhshan (M.D., Neurologist); Charleston, West Virginia, USA

12:00 - 12:20pm:  Laterality of Motor Control and its Robotic Applications:
                  A Paper and Pencil Method for Lateralizing the Major
                  (Action, Thought) Hemisphere
                  Iraj Derakhshan (M.D., Neurologist); Charleston, West Virginia, USA

12:20 - 12:50pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)


12:50 - 01:20pm:  Keynote/Invited Talk:
                  Unfoldomics of Human Diseases
                  Vladimir N. Uversky, Senior Research Professor
                  Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
                  and Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia


SESSION 8-BIOCOMP: BIOINFORMATICS AND MEDICAL INFORMATICS
                  Chairs: Dr. Ping Gong* and Reetal Pai**
                  *SpecPro Inc., USA; **Texas A&M, USA
                  July 15, 2008 (Tuesday); 01:20pm - 02:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

01:20 - 01:40pm:  Integrated ICT Approach to Improve Clinical Processes in
                  Healthcare Organizations: A Case Study 
                  Elena Sini*, Paolo Locatelli, and Nicola Restifo
                  Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Italy

01:40 - 02:00pm:  An Organizational Framework of Personal Health Records for
                  Social Networks
                  Syed Omair Hasan* and Shmuel Rotenstreich
                  George Washington University, USA


SESSION 9-BIOCOMP: GENE CO-EXPRESSION NETWORKS IN SYSTEMS BIOLOGY AND SYSTEMS GENETICS I
                  Chairs: Dr. Jun Dong and Dr. Steve Horvath
                  University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
                  July 15, 2008 (Tuesday); 02:00pm - 03:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

02:00 - 02:30pm:  An Integrative Network Approach to Map the Transcriptome
                  to the Phenome
                  Michael R. Mehan
                  University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

02:30 - 03:00pm:  Inferring Causal Phenotype Networks from Segregating Populations
                  Elias Chaibub Neto
                  University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA


03:00 - 03:40pm:  DISCUSSION SESSION A-BIOCOMP (Refreshments will be available)
                  July 15, 2008 (Tuesday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways - Ballrooms 1-5)

                  O. TableMaker: An ad hoc Query Tool for Relational Databases
                     C. M. Lushbough*, J. Duvick**, Q. Dong***, and D. Jennewein*,
                     J. Reynoldson*, and V. Brendel**
                     *University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, USA
                     **Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
                     ***Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
                  O. ESPSim: A JAVA Application for Calculating Electrostatic
                     Potential Map Similarity Scores
                     Greg Martyn** and Christopher M. Frenz*
                     **Manhattan College, USA; *New York City College of Tech. (CUNY), USA
                  O. Minimum Data Requirements and Supplemental Angle Constraints
                     for Protein Structure Prediction with REDCRAFT
                     E. Timko, P. Shealy, M. Bryson, and H. Valafar
                     University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
                  O. Specificity Normalization for Identifying Selective Inhibitors in
                     Virtual Screening
                     Reetal Pai*, James C. Sacchettini, and Thomas R. Ioerger
                     Texas A&M University, USA
                  O. The SiteSeeker Motif Discovery Tool
                     Klaus Ecker* and Lonnie Welch
                     Ohio University, USA
                  O. Bioinformatics Aspects in Diabetic Neuropathy Using Functional
                     Protein Sequences
                     Hanuman Thota*, Sivaprasad Akula, Kunjum Nageshwararo,
                     SureshBabu Changalsetty, Apparao Allam and Lalitha Saroja Thota
                     Andhra University, India
                  O. Design and Implementation of a Framework for Complex Metadata
                     Translations Using Dijkstra's Algorithm
                     Wolf-Dieter Otte*, Corinna Gries**, and Mike Kasper*
                     *Northern Arizona University, USA
                     **Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, USA
                  O. Data Mining of Capacitance Relaxation Phenomena in Classifying
                     Breast Cancer Cell
                     T.K.Basak, S.Murugappan, V. Cyrilraj, Shweta Pandey, and S. Abirami
                     Krishna Engineering College, India
                  O. Bioinformatics for Leukemia, MDS, Associated with Bone Marrow Depression
                     T. K. Basak, T. Ravi, V. Cyrilraj, G. Gunasekaran (+Ramanujam)
                     Krishna Engineering College, India
                  O. Bioinformatics Tools: Searching for Markers in DNA/RNA Sequences
                     Kuha Mahalingam and Omar Bagasra 
                     Claflin University, USA
                  O. Data in and Data out: The Use of Controlled Vocabularies in the
                     Mouse Genome Informatics System
                     Harold Drabkin, Alex Diehl, Li Ni, Mary Dolan, David Hill, and Judith Blake
                     Mouse Genome Informatics, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA
                  O. Protein Classification with Decision Trees (C4.5)
                     Bojan Pepik, Petre Lameski, Slobodan Kalajdziski, and Danco Davcev
                     University Ss. Cyril & Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia
                  O. Computational Detection of Transcriptional Regulatory Elements
                     Controlling Protein Complexes in Apoptosis
                     Fred Y. Peng and Frederic Pio*
                     Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada
                  O. The Protein Secondary Structure Flexibility
                     Kresimir Sikic, Branko Jeren, and Sanja Tomic; Zagreb, Croatia
                  O. Identifying Protein Flexibility by NMA
                     Kresimir Sikic, Branko Jeren, and Sanja Tomic; Zagreb, Croatia


SESSION 10-BIOCOMP: GENE CO-EXPRESSION NETWORKS IN SYSTEMS BIOLOGY AND SYSTEMS GENETICS II
                  Chairs: Dr. Jun Dong and Dr. Steve Horvath
                  University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
                  July 15, 2008 (Tuesday); 03:40pm - 06:30pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

03:40 - 04:10pm:  A Genome-Wide Signaling Map for Animals
                  Josh Stuart
                  University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA

04:10 - 04:40pm:  TALK: Statistical Methods to Map the Genetic Basis of Gene
                  Expression Networks
                  Christina Kendziorski
                  University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA

04:40 - 05:10pm:  TALK: Regression Models in Dissecting Transcriptional
                  Regulatory Network
                  Ning Sun
                  Yale School of Medicine, USA

05:10 - 05:30pm:  Functional Organization of the Transcriptome in Human Brain
                  Michael C. Oldham
                  University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

05:30 - 05:50pm:  A Gene Co-Expression Similarity Based Meta Analysis Method
                  for Microarray Data
                  Wen Lin
                  University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

05:50 - 06:10pm:  The NEO Software: A Genetic Marker Based Software for
                  Orienting the Edges in Quantitative Trait Networks
                  Tova Fuller
                  University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

06:10 - 06:30pm:  Classifying Microarray Samples Using Gene Co-Expression
                  Network Methods
                  Peter Langfelder
                  University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA


SESSION 11-BIOCOMP: ALGORITHMS
                  Chair: Lavanya Devi Golagani, Andhra University, India
                  July 15, 2008 (Tuesday); 06:30pm - 06:50pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

06:30 - 06:50pm:  An Algorithm for Discrimination of Multiple-Fragment Peaks in
                  Capillary Fingerprinting Chromatograms
                  Frank M. You*, Ming-Cheng Luo, Yong Qiang Gu, Gerard R. Lazo,
                  Jan Dvorak, and Olin D. Anderson
                  University of California, Davis, USA

06:50 - 07:10pm:  Tracking the Dimensional Evolution of Gene Expression Biclusters
                  Liviu Badea; National Institute for Research in Informatics, Romania


06:00 - 09:30pm:  Tutorials (please see the list of tutorials)

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