BIOCOMP'10: July 13, 2010 Schedule

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SESSION 3-BIOCOMP: NOVEL ALGORITHMS FOR IN-SILICO MODELING BIOLOGICAL
                  NETWORKS AND GENERATING QUANTITATIVE PREDICTIONS
                  Chair: Dr. Rui Chang; University of California, San Diego, USA)
                  July 13, 2010 (Tuesday); 08:00am - 10:00am
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

08:00 - 08:20am:  Comparing Robust Methods for Defining Directed Networks and Their
                  Hub Nodes
                  Peter Langfelder, Tova F. Fuller, Steve Horvath
                  University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

08:20 - 08:40am:  Information-Theoretic Inference of Regulatory Networks Using Backward
                  Elimination
                  Patrick E. Meyer, Daniel Marbach, Sushmita Roy, Manolis Kellis
                  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Broad Institute of MIT and
                  Harvard University, MA, USA;
                  Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

08:40 - 09:00am:  Pathway-based Microarray Data Analysis for Cancer Research
                  Fei-Hung Hung and Hung-Wen Chiu
                  Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

09:00 - 09:20am:  Latent Variables in Bayesian Network Construction and Inference
                  Jun Zhu, Manikandan Narayanan, Bin Zhang, Kai Wang
                  Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, Washington, USA;
                  Merck Research Laboratories, Boston, MA, USA;
                  Pfizer Inc., San Diego, California, USA

09:20 - 09:40am:  A Study of Genomic Modules and Intermodular Networks for Understanding
                  the Operating System of Life
                  Hye Young Kim and Jin Hyuk Kim
                  College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

09:40 - 10:00am:  A Novel Knowledge-driven Systems Biology Approach for Phenotype
                  Prediction Upon Genetic Intervention
                  Rui Chang and Wei Wang
                  University of California, San Diego, California, USA

10:00 - 10:20am:  BREAK


SESSION 4-BIOCOMP: SOFTWARE PACKAGES AND OTHER COMPUTATIONAL TOPICS INCLUDING
                  IN BIOINFORMATICS + GENOMIC SEQUENCES & ANALYSIS - I
                  Co-Chairs: Prof. Art Cho* and David Easterling**
                  *Department Chair, Bioinformatics, Korea University, Korea
                  **Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
                  July 13, 2010 (Tuesday); 10:20am - 12:40pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

10:20 - 10:40am:  Efficient Pairwise Statistical Significance Estimation using FPGAs
                  Daniel Honbo, Ankit Agrawal, Alok Choudhary
                  Northwestern University, Illinois, USA

10:40 - 11:00am:  Electrical Properties of Hydrogels from Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics
                  Joe R. Feldkamp
                  Kimberly-Clark Corporation, WI, USA

11:00 - 11:20am:  On Complexity of Transforming Strings
                  Bhadrachalam Chitturi
                  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA

11:20 - 11:40am:  Prefix Reversals on Strings
                  Bhadrachalam Chitturi, Hal Sudborough
                  University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, USA

11:40 - 12:00pm:  A Danger Theory Model
                  Suhair H. Amer and John A. Hamilton, Jr.
                  Southeast Missouri State University, Missouri, USA;
                  Auburn University, Alabama, USA

12:00 - 12:20pm:  Automatic Cell Identification Using A Multiple Marked Point Process
                  Hiroshi Hatsuda
                  The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan

12:20 - 12:40pm:  Molecular Probes for the Detection of Cyanophage AS-1 and its
                  Cyanobacterial Hosts
                  Tin-Chun Chu, Jonathan Jimenez, Lauren Strawn, Michelle Reed,
                  Lauren Pohren, Lee H. Lee
                  Seton Hall University, New Jersey, USA;
                  Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA

12:40 - 01:20pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)


SESSION 5-BIOCOMP: SOFTWARE PACKAGES AND OTHER COMPUTATIONAL TOPICS INCLUDING
                  IN BIOINFORMATICS - II
                  Chair: Dr. Le (Adam) Zhang, Michigan Tech University, Michigan, USA
                  July 13, 2010 (Tuesday); 01:20pm - 03:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

01:20 - 01:40pm:  BFAT: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Forensic Analysis Tool
                  Jack K. Horner
                  Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

01:40 - 02:00pm:  A Novel Bayesian Classifcation System Integrated with Mobile Agent
                  Based Modeling Technology
                  Le Zhang, Bo Chen, Beini Jiang
                  Michigan Tech University, Michigan, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm:  The Statistically Meaningful Display of Analog Data
                  Robert A. Warner
                  Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada

02:20 - 02:40pm:  Computer Aided Designing of Juvenile Hormone Analogues as a Potent
                  Pesticide Based on Ligand - Receptor Interaction - A Docking Study
                  Pamita Awasthi and Priyanka Sharma
                  National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, India

02:40 - 03:00pm:  From Celestial to Terrestrial: A New Light on Kinnebrook's Systematic
                  Error of Judgment at Greenwich in 1796
                  Jamal Khan and I. Derakhshan
                  MD, Virginia, USA


03:00 - 03:40pm:  DISCUSSION/POSTER SESSION B-BIOCOMP (Refreshments will be available)
                  July 13, 2010 (Tuesday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways of Ballrooms 1-5)

                  O. Protein Sequence Motif Information Generated by Fuzzy - Hybrid
                     Hierarchical K-Means Clustering Algorithm
                     Bernard Chen, Christopher Rhodes, Christopher Kline, Luke Irvin
                     University of Central Arkansas, Arkansas, USA
                  O. Sensitivity of a Phylogeny of the Triassic Avian-Line Radiation
                     to Character-Transition Ordering
                     Jack K. Horner
                     Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
                  O. Web 2.0 and Healthcare Collaborative Framework for Health Awaerness
                     and Education
                     Dinesh Kumar Saini, Wail M. Omar
                     Sohar University, Sultanate of Oman
                  O. A Scale-Free-Network Analog of the Canonical Potential-Energy
                     Distribution
                     Jack K. Horner
                     Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
                  O. There will also be a number of other papers.


SESSION 6-BIOCOMP: COMPARATIVE SEQUENCE, GENOME ANALYSIS, GENOME ASSEMBLY, &
                  GENOME SCALE COMPUTATIONAL METHODS
                  Co-Chairs:
                  Dr. Ahmad Khalil*, Dr. Chalam Chitturi**, & Dr. Nelavelli Lakshmi Bhavani**
                  *Harvard Medical School and The Broad Institute, Boston, USA;
                  **University of Texas, Dallas, Southwest Medical Center, USA;
                  ***Osmania University, Hyderabad, India
                  July 13, 2010 (Tuesday); 03:40pm - 06:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Application of Machine Learning Algorithms for Binning Metagenomic Data
                  Vasim Mahamuda, Manchon U, Khaled Rasheed
                  University of Georgia, Georgia, USA

04:00 - 04:20pm:  Extended Secure Architecture of HIS: HL7
                  D. K. Saini, H. Saini, Wail M. Omar
                  Sohar University, Sultanate of Oman;
                  Orissa Engineering College, Bhubaneswar, India

04:20 - 04:40pm:  qtpaintgui() - An integration of Command Line and Graphical User Interface
                  M. Vendettuoli, D. Cook, H. Hofmann
                  Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA

04:40 - 05:00pm:  Global Stability for the n-Species Lotka-Volterra Tree Systems
                  Xinhua Ji
                  Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China

05:00 - 05:20pm:  Biopsy Back Wave Preprocessing Research of BRATUMASS System based
                  on Applications of Fractional Fourier Transform
                  Zhi-fu Tao, Xia-chen Dong, Meng Yao
                  East China Normai University, P. R. China

05:20 - 05:40pm:  To Live and Die in Cellular Automata
                  K. E. Schubert, E. Gomez, J. Curnutt, P. Boston
                  New Mexico Tech, Socorro, New Mexico, USA;
                  California State University, San Bernardino, California, USA

05:40 - 06:00pm:  Bhageerath: A Web Enabled High Performance Computing (HPC) Software
                  Suite for Predicting The Tertiary Structures of Small Globular
                  Proteins Using all Atom Energy Based Methods
                  Shashank Shekhar, Priyanka Dhingra, Avinash Mishra, Bharat Lakhani,
                  B. Jayaram
                  Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology,
                  Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India


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

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