BIOCOMP'09: July 14, 2009 Schedule

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


SESSION 2-BIOCOMP: FUNCTIONAL INFORMATICS & PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
                  Co-Chairs: Dr. Mark Clement* and Dr. Mehdi Pirooznia**
                  *Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah USA
                  **Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA
                  July 14, 2009 (Tuesday); 08:00am - 09:40am
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

08:00 - 08:20am:  Rapid Genotyping for HIV Using Supervised Learning Tools
                  Misha L. Rajaram and Karin S. Dorman
                  Iowa State University, USA

08:20 - 08:40am:  Computational NeuroInformatics From Database to Biomarker
                  Arthur W Toga, John D. Van Horn, John C. Mazziotta
                  University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), California, USA

08:40 - 09:00am:  Software Tool to Build Brain Computational Models through Internet
                  Ana Porto, Guillermo Rodriguez, Julian Dorado, Alejandro Pazos
                  University of A Coruna, Spain

09:00 - 09:20am:  Classification of Dynamic Cerebral Autoregulation in Diabetics
                  with Autonomic Neuropathy Using Support Vector Machine
                  Chuang-Chien Chiu, Yu-Hen Hu, Shoou-Jeng Yeh, De-Yi Chou
                  Feng Chia University, Taiwan & University of Wisconsin, USA &
                  Cheng-Ching General Hospital, Taiwan

09:20 - 09:40am:  Computational Analysis of Shifts in the Fluorescence Spectra of
                  Human Serum Albumin
                  Joshua D. Eklund, Norbert W. Seidler
                  Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, USA 


SESSION 3-BIOCOMP: GENOMICS & SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
                  Chair: Dr. Gordon Guozhen Liu, SABiosciences Corporation, Maryland, USA
                  July 14, 2009 (Tuesday); 09:40am - 12:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

09:40 - 10:00am:  MotifNetwork: High Throughput Determination of Evolutionary
                  Domain Networks
                  Jeffrey L. Tilson, Gopi Kandaswamy, Gloria Rendon, and Eric Jakobsson
                  University of North Carolina, USA & National Center for Supercomputing
                  Applications, USA & University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

10:00 - 10:20am:  A Distance-Based Algorithm for Genomic Analysis in Genetic Diseases
                  Weidong Mao
                  Virginia State University, USA

10:20 - 10:40am:  BREAK

10:40 - 11:00am:  Swarm Intelligence Algorithm for Feature Selection from Large-Scale
                  Functional Genomics Datasets
                  Victor Trevino, Emmanuel Martinez, Mario-Moises Alvarez
                  Instituto Tecnologico  y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico

11:00 - 11:20am:  A Phylogenetic Comparison of Influenza A H1N1 and H5N1
                  Neuraminidase-Encoding Genomic Segments
                  Jack K. Horner
                  Independent researcher, USA

11:20 - 11:40am:  Classification of Genomic Islands Using Decision-tree Based Algorithms
                  Dongsheng Che, Cory Hockenbury, Robert Marmelstein and Khaled Rasheed
                  East Stroudsburg University, USA & University of Georgia, USA

11:40 - 12:00pm:  Improving Naive Bayesian Classifier for Metagenomic Reads Assignment
                  KuanLiang Liu, Nicoloas W. Hengartner, Gary Xie
                  Los Alamos National Lab, USA

12:00 - 12:20pm:  A Method and System for Biomarker Discovery in Medical Genomics Data
                  Arriel Benis and Melanie Courtine
                  LIM&Bio- Laboratoire d'Informatique Medicale et de Bioinformatique, France


12:20 - 01:00pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)


SESSION 4-BIOCOMP: GENE EXPRESSION & REGULATORY NETWORK + MICROARRAY ANALYSIS
                  Chairs: Prof. Rong Chen* and Prof. Bob Gross**
                  *University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA & **Dartmouth College, NH, USA
                  July 14, 2009 (Tuesday); 01:00pm - 03:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

01:00 - 01:20pm:  Generation and Analysis of Expressed Sequence Tags from the
                  Sheepshead Minnow (Cyprinodon Variegatus)
                  Alexander Pozhitkov, Mehdi Pirooznia, Rachel Ryan, Chaoyang Zhang,
                  Ping Gong, Edward J Perkins, Youping Deng, Marius Brouwer
                  University of Southern Mississippi, USA & The Johns Hopkins University,
                  MD, USA & U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, USA

01:20 - 01:40pm:  Gene Expression Data Classification Using Discrete Wavelet Transform
                  Ho Sun Shon, Kwang Su Jung, Keun Ho Ryu
                  Chungbuk National University, Korea

01:40 - 02:00pm:  Combining Predicted Regulatory Motifs and Gene Expression Information
                  to Identify Functional Relationships Within Sets of Co-Expressed Genes
                  Viktor Martyanov and Robert H. Gross
                  Dartmouth College, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm:  Bayesian Classifier Combination for Microarray Classification
                  Rong Chen and Edward H Herskovits
                  University of Pennsylvania, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm:  Analysis of Correlations Between Genes and Tetrads of Transcription
                  Factors Using Microarray Expression Profiles
                  Edward A. Salinas, Amitava Karmaker
                  The CME Group, Inc., USA & University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

02:40 - 03:00pm:  An Evolutionary Gene Selection Method for Microarray Data Based
                  On SVM Error Bound Theories
                  Rameswar Debnath and Takio Kurita
                  AIST, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

03:00 - 03:20pm:  Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks from Asynchronous Microarray Data 
                  David Oviatt, Mark Clement, Quinn Snell, Randall Roper
                  Brigham Young University, USA & Indiana University-Purdue University
                  Indianapolis, USA

03:20 - 03:40pm:  BREAK


SESSION 5-BIOCOMP: FUNCTIONAL INFORMATICS & PERSONALIZED MEDICINE + MONITORING TOOLS
                  Chair: Dr. Xiaoli Yang, Purdue University Calumet, Indiana, USA
                  July 14, 2009 (Tuesday); 03:40pm - 06:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

03:40 - 04:00pm:  GEFERENCE: Reference Database for Construing Personal Genome
                  Expression
                  Changwon Keum, Ju Han Kim, Young Soo Song and Jung Hoon Woo
                  iLKAH Inc., Seoul, Korea & Seoul National University Biomedical
                  Informatics (SNUBI) & Seoul National University College of Medicine,
                  Seoul, Korea & Macrogen Inc., Seoul, Korea

04:00 - 04:20pm:  Artificial Intelligence Algorithms in Computer Aided Diabetes Therapy
                  A. Izworski, J. Koleszynska, R. Tadeusiewicz, J. Bulka, I. Wochlik
                  AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland 

04:20 - 04:40pm:  A Discrete-Time Epidemic Model to Analyze Impact of Age and
                  Gender Targeted Interventions
                  Courtney D. Corley and Armin R. Mikler
                  University of North Texas, USA

04:40 - 05:00pm:  Computer Based Simulation of Chromosome Abnormality
                  Wei Wu, Xiaoli Yang, Bin Chen, Zhenpeng Zhao, Jason Lacny, Charles Tseng 
                  Purdue University Calumet, USA

05:00 - 05:20pm:  Identification of Synechococcus sp. IU 625 Phycocyanin Gene and
                  Bioinformatic Analyses of Cyanobacterial Phycocyanin
                  Tin-Chun Chu, Aline Oliveira, Arti Rana, and Lee H. Lee
                  Seton Hall University, USA & Montclair State University, USA

05:20 - 05:40pm:  Incorporating Structural Properties of Steroid Hormone Receptors
                  and DNA into Statistic Model for HRE Recognition
                  Hong Tian, Lin Feng
                  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

05:40 - 06:00pm:  Monitoring Influenza Trends through Mining Social Media
                  Courtney D. Corley, Armin R. Mikler, Karan P. Singh and Diane J. Cook
                  University of North Texas, USA & Washington State University, USA


06:00 - 09:00pm:  KEYNOTE & INVITED PRESENTATIONS + TUTORIALS
                  (Please see the lists at the begining of this booklet)

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