BIOCOMP'07: June 26, 2007 Schedule

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


SESSION 2-BIOCOMP: GENE IDENTIFICATION AND CLUSTERING
                  Chairs: Dr. Jack Y. Yang* and Dr. Jun Liu**
                  *Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA;
                  **Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
                  Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA;
                  June 26, 2007 (Tuesday); 08:00am - 08:40pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

08:00 - 08:20am:  Biomarker Discovery Across Annotated and Unannotated
                  Microarray Datasets Using Semi-Supervised Learning
                  Cole Harris and Noushin Ghaffari
                  Exagen Diagnostics, Inc., Houston, Texas, USA

08:20 - 08:40am:  Identification of the Synechococcus sp. IU 625 Metallothionein
                  Gene and its Evolutionary Relationship to the Metallothionein
                  Gene of Other Cyanobacteria
                  Tin-chun Chu, Lee H. Lee, John J. Gaynor, Quinn C. Vega,
                  Bonnie K. Lustigman, and Shankar Srinivasan
                  Montclair State University, USA


SESSION 3-BIOCOMP: PHYLOGENETIC RECONSTRUCTION AND MOLECULAR EVOLUTION
                  Chair: Prashanth Suravajhala, Roskilde University, Denmark
                  June 26, 2007 (Tuesday); 08:40am - 09:20am
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

08:40 - 09:00am:  Interrelationship Between Protein Electrostatics and Evolution
                  in HCV and HIV Replicative Proteins
                  Chistopher M. Frenz
                  Frezyme Research, USA

09:00 - 09:20am:  Towards Phylogenomic Reconstruction
                  Le Sy Vinh, Andres Varon, Daniel Janies, and Ward C. Wheeler
                  American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA;
                  The City University of New York, USA;
                  The Ohio State University, USA


SESSION 4-BIOCOMP: METABLOMICS, PROTEOMIC AND PROTEIN FUNCTION PREDICTION
                  Chair: Dr. Beatrice Kilel* and Dr. Andreas Martin Lisewski**
                  *Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA;
                  **Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA;
                  June 26, 2007 (Tuesday); 09:20am - 10:00am
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

09:20 - 09:40am:  Understanding the Relationship Between Human Protein Sequences
                  and Their Biological Functions
                  Zhong-Hui Duan, Dianne Perez, and Ting Shi
                  University of Akron, Ohio, USA;
                  Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

09:40 - 10:00am:  Identifying the Function of Hypothetical Proteins: A
                  Bioinformatical Approach
                  Prashanth Suravajhala, Tarun Gupta, Arun Gupta,
                  Renuka Suravajhala, and Sirish Kumar
                  Roskilde University, Denmark

10:00 - 10:20am:  BREAK


SESSION 5-BIOCOMP: MICROARRAY DATA ANALYSIS AND GENE EXPRESSION
                  Chair: Prof. (Jason) Jianhua Xuan, Virginia Tech, USA
                  June 26, 2007 (Tuesday); 10:20am - 11:40am
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

10:20 - 10:40am:  Classification of Brain Glioma by Using Selective Ensemble
                  Learning Based on Mutual Information
                  Jack Y. Yang, Guo-Zheng Li, Dan Li, and Mary Q. Yang
                  Shanghai University, P. R. China; Harvard University, USA;
                  National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA

10:40 - 11:00am:  Stability-Based Dimension Estimation of ICA with Application to
                  Microarray Data Analysis
                  Chen Wang, Jianhua Xuan, Ting Gong, Robert Clarke, Eric Hoffman,
                  and Yue Wang
                  Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA;
                  Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA;
                  Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA

11:00 - 11:20am:  Error Correction and Clustering Gene Expression Data Using
                  Majority Logic Decoding
                  Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga, Sandra Pena de Ortiz, and
                  Oscar Moreno de Ayala
                  University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

11:20 - 11:40am:  Finding Alternative Splicing Patterns with Strong Support From
                  Expressed Sequences
                  Thomas K. F. Wong, T. W. Lam, W. L. Yang and S. M. Yiu
                  The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong


SESSION 6-BIOCOMP: APPLICATION OF ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES AND MATHEMATICS IN MEDICINE
                  Chairs: Dr. Rattikorn Hewett* and Dr. Qingzhong Liu**
                  *Texas Tech University, Texas, USA;
                  **Dr. Qingzhong Liu, New Mexico Tech, New Mexico, USA;
                  June 26, 2007 (Tuesday); 11:40am - 12:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

11:40 - 12:00pm:  Use of Average Mutual Information Based Species Signature for
                  Fungal and Mycobacterial Differentiation
                  K. Sayood, D. Bastola, P. Iwen, and S. Hinrichs
                  University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Omaha, Nebraska, USA;
                  University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

12:00 - 12:20pm:  The Construction of Observational Heterarchy on One-Dimensional
                  Map System
                  Kohei Nakajima and Soya Shinkaia
                  University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

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


SESSION 7-BIOCOMP: GENE NETWORKS: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS I
                  Chair: Dr. Jun Dong and Dr. Steve Horvath
                  University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
                  June 26, 2007 (Tuesday); 01:20pm - 03:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

01:20 - 01:40pm:  Understanding Gene Co-Expression Networks
                  Jun Dong, Steve Horvath, Andy Yip
                  University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA;
                  National University of Singapore, Singapore

01:40 - 02:00pm:  Weighted Gene Coexpression Network Analysis Improves the
                  Validation Success of Microarrays
                  Wei Zhao, Paul Mischel, Marc Carlson, Bin Zhang,
                  Stanley F. Nelson, and Steve Horvath
                  University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm:  WGCNA, A Gene Co-Expression Network Analysis Tool
                  Lin Wang, Wei Zhao, Steve Horvath
                  University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm:  Network Based Meta Analysis Methods for Microarray Data
                  Wen Lin and Steve Horvath
                  University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

02:40 - 03:00pm:  The Multi-Point Topological Overlap Measure for Gene Clustering
                  Ai Li and Steve Horvath
                  University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

03:00 - 03:20pm:  BREAK

03:20 - 04:20pm:  Keynote:
                  Protein Intrinsic Disorder, Cell Signaling, Drug Discovery, and
                  Alternative Splicing
                  Prof. A. K. Dunker
                  Indiana University and Purdue University, USA
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)


SESSION 7-BIOCOMP: GENE NETWORKS: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS II (Continued ...)
                  Chair: Dr. Jun Dong and Dr. Steve Horvath
                  University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
                  June 26, 2007 (Tuesday); 04:20pm - 05:40pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 5)

04:20 - 04:40pm:  Detection of Consensus Modules in Gene Networks
                  Peter Langfelder and Steve Horvath
                  University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

04:40 - 05:00pm:  Z-Score-Based Directed-Edge Orienting in Eigengene Graphs from
                  Genetic, Clinical, and Microarray Data
                  Jason E. Aten and Steve Horvath

05:00 - 05:20pm:  Systems Genetic Analysis Methods for Finding Complex Disease Genes
                  Angela P. Presson, Eric Sobel, Jeanette C. Papp, and Steve Horvath
                  University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

05:20 - 05:40pm:  Differential Network Analysis in Mouse Expression Data
                  Tova Fuller, Steve Horvath
                  University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

05:40 - 06:00pm:  FREE SLOT


06:00 - 09:00pm:  FIVE TUTORIALS  (planned)

                  Real-Time Image and Video Processing: From Research to Reality
                  Prof. Nasser Kehtarnavaz
                  University of Texas at Dallas, Texas, USA
                  Location: Ballroom 1

                  Moving On, Moving Online That Is: An Introduction to Teaching Online
                  Dr. Michael L. Nelson
                  School of Technology Graduate Program Director, International College,
                  Ft. Myers, Florida, USA
                  Location: Ballroom 2

                  Computational Challenges in RNAi Gene Silencing
                  Amanda Birmingham
                  Dharmacon, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bioinformatics Manager, USA
                  Location: Ballroom 3

                  Introduction to Game Programming
                  Lakshmi Prayaga
                  University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida, USA
                  Location: Ballroom 4

                  The Integrated Microbial Genomes system (IMG)
                  Dr. Konstantinos Mavrommatis
                  Genome Biology Program, DOE Joint Genome Institute, California, USA
                  Location: Ballroom 5

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