Dear colleague:
Enclosed is the preliminary program of RECOMB 2000.
We are looking forward to an exciting program, including
nine keynote presentations by distinguished scientists,
36 contributed talks selected by the Program Committee,
and 120 accepted posters.
Please note: the early registration deadline is February 20, 2000.
The deadline for hotel reservation is March 1, 2000.
The list of accepted posters, as well as resigration and hotel
information, is available at http://recomb2000.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
Further updates will be posted on the website.
See you in Tokyo,
Ron Shamir
RECOMB 2000 Program Chair
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FOURTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
(RECOMB 2000)
April 8-11, 2000
Tokyo, Japan
Organized by
Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science,
University of Tokyo
Sponsored by
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) - SIGACT
with support from
Agilent Laboratories
Compugen
IBM Corporation
International Society for Computational Biology
SmithKline Beecham
US National Science Foundation
US Department of Energy
http://recomb2000.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Preliminary Program
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Friday April 7
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16-19 Welcome and Registration
18:00 Reception
Saturday April 8
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9:00 opening remarks
Ron Shamir, RECOMB 2000 Program Chair
Satoru Miyano, RECOMB 2000 Organizing Committee Chair
Thomas Lengauer, RECOMB 2001 Program Chair
9:15-10:15 The Stanislaw Ulam Computational Biology Address.
Minoru Kanehisa :
Sequence Comparison to Graph Comparison-A New Generation
of Algorithms for Network Analysis of Interacting Molecules
10:20-10:45 S. Batzoglou, L. Pachter, J. P. Mesirov, B. Berger,
E. S. Lander:
Comparative Analysis of Mouse and Human DNA and Applications to
Exon Prediction
10:45-11:10 P. Pevzner, V. Dancik, C. L. Tang:
Mutation-Tolerant Protein Identification by Mass-Spectrometry
11:10-11:40 break
11:40-12:05 N. Friedman, M. Linial, I. Nachman, D. Pe'er:
Using Bayesian Networks to Analyze Expression Data
12:05-12:30 A. Ben-Dor, L. Bruhn, N. Friedman, I. Nachman,
M. Schummer, Z. Yakhini:
Tissue classification with gene expression profiles
12:30-12:55 D. K. Slonim, P. Tamayo, J. P. Mesirov, T. R. Golub,
E. S. Lander:
Class prediction and discovery using gene expression data
12:55-14:15 lunch (poster setup period)
14:15-15:15 Keynote Lecture: Hans Lehrach
A Data-Analysis Pipeline for Large-Scale Gene Expression Analysis
15:20-15:45 C. Bailey-Kellogg, A. Widge, J. J. Kelley, M. J.
Berardi, J. H. Bushweller, B. R. Donald:
The NOESY Jigsaw: automated protein secondary structure and
main-chain assignment from sparse, unassigned NMR data
15:45-16:10 J. M. Sorenson, T. Head-Gordon:
Matching simulation and experiment: a new simplified model for
simulating protein folding
16:10-16:40 break
16:40-17:40 Keynote Lecture: Svante Paabo
DNA Sequence Variation among Humans and Apes
17:45-18:10 A. Zien, R. Zimmer, T. Lengauer:
A simple iterative approach to parameter optimization
18:20-20:00 business meeting
Sunday April 9
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9:00-10:00 Keynote Lecture: Eric Davidson
Computational Analyses of Developmental cis-Regulatory Control Systems
10:05-10:30 T. Akutsu, S. Miyano, S. Kuhara :
Algorithms for Identifying Boolean Networks and Related Biological
Networks Based on Matrix Multiplication and Fingerprint Function
10:30-10:55 M. Tomita, K. Hashimoto, K. Takahashi, Y. Matsuzaki,
R. Matsushima, K. Yugi, F. Miyoshi, H. Nakano, Y. Saito, S. Shimizu,
Y. Nakayama :
The E-CELL project: towards integrative simulation of cellular processes
10:55-11:25 break
11:25-11:50 A. Liwo, J. Pillardy, C. Czaplewski, J. Lee, D. R.
Ripoll, M. Groth, S. Rodziewicz-Motowidlo, R. Kazmierkiewicz, R. J.
Wawak, S. Oldziej, H. A. Scheraga :
UNRES -- a united-residue force field for energy-based prediction
of protein structure - origin and significance of multibody terms
11:50-12:15 Y. Z. Ohkubo, G. M. Crippen :
Determining Contact Energy Function for Continuous State Models of
Globular Protein Conformations
12:15-15:00 poster session and lunch
15:00-16:00 Keynote Lecture: Takashi Gojobori
Evolutionary Features of Genomes as Disclosed by Comparative
Analysis of Complete Genome Sequences
16:05-16:30 B. Chor, M. D. Hendy, B. R. Holland, D. Penny :
Multiple Maxima of Likelihood in Phylogenetic Trees: An Analytic
Approach
16:30-16:55 R. Desper, M. Vingron :
Tree Fitting: an Algebraic Approach Using Profile Distances
16:55-17:25 break
17:25-17:50 D. Sankoff, D. Bryant, M. Deneault, B. F. Lang, G. Burger :
Early Eukaryote Evolution Based on Mitochondrial Gene Order Breakpoints
17:50-18:15 K. Chen, D. Durand, M. Farach-Colton :
Notung: Dating gene duplications using gene family trees
18:30-21:30 banquet and Distinguished Biology Lecture: Walter Gilbert
Introns and Modules in Ancient Conserved Genes
Monday April 10
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9:00-10:00 Distinguished New Technologies Lecture: Leroy Hood
Computing Life and Global Technologies
10:05-10:30 A. Ben-Dor, R. M. Karp, B. Schwikowski, Z. Yakhini :
Universal DNA tag systems: a combinatorial design scheme
10:30-10:55 F. P. Preparata, E. Upfal :
Sequencing-by-hybridization at the information-theory bound: an
optimal algorithm
10:55-11:25 break
11:25-11:50 R. B. Lyngso, C. N. S. Pederson :
Pseudonknots in RNA Secondary Structures
11:50-12:15 Y. Xu, D. Xu, O. H. Crawford, J. R. Einstein, E. Serpersu :
Protein Structure Determination using Protein Threading and Sparse
NMR Data
12:15-12:40 E. Althaus, O. Kohlbacher, H. P. Lenhof, P. Mueller :
A combinatorial approach to protein docking with flexible side-chains
12:40-14:00 lunch
14:00-15:00 Keynote Lecture: Yusuke Nakamura
Human Genome Analysis and Medicine in the 21st Century
15:05-15:30 R. Bundschuh :
An Analytic Approach to Significance Assessment in Local Sequence
Alignment with Gaps
15:30-15:55 T. Akutsu, H. Arimura, S. Shimozono
On Approximation Algorithms for Local Multiple Alignment
15:55-16:25 break
16:25-16:50 M. Kann, R. A. Goldstein :
Optimizing for Success: A New Score Function For Distantly Related
Protein Sequence Comparison
16:50-17:15 S. A. Teichmann, C. Chothia, G. M. Church, J. Park :
PDB-ISL: an intermediate sequence library for fast assignment of
protein structures to sequences
17:15-17:40 J. R. Bienkowska, L. Yu, S. Zarakhovich, R. G. Rogers,
T. F. Smith :
Comprehensive statistical method for protein fold recognition
17:40-19:40 poster session
Tuesday April 11
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9:00-10:00 Keynote Lecture: Yvonne Martin
Molecular Diversity: Strategies and Concerns
10:05-10:30 S. Heber, J. Stoye, J. Hoheisel, M. Vingron :
Contig Selection in Physical Mapping
10:30-10:55 J. Kececioglu, S. Shete, J. Arnold :
Reconstructing distances in physical maps of chromosomes with
nonoverlapping probes
10:55-11:25 break
11:25-11:50 L. Marsan, M.-F. Sagot :
Extracting structured motifs using a suffix tree - Algorithms and
application to promoter consensus identification
11:50-12:15 X. Chen, S. Kwong, M. Li :
A Compression Algorithm for DNA Sequences and Its Applications
in Genome Comparison
12:15-12:40 R. Hart, A. K. Royyuru, G. Stolovitzky, A. Califano :
Systematic and Automated Discovery of Patterns in PROSITE Families
12:40-14:00 lunch
14:00-14:25 M. Linial, E. Portugaly :
Probabilities for having a new fold on the basis of a map of all
protein sequences
14:25-14:50 G. Yona, M. Levitt :
A unified sequence-structure classification of protein sequences:
combining sequence and structure in a map of the protein space
14:50-15:15 A. Apostolico, G. Bejerano :
Optimal Amnesic Probabilistic Automata or How to Learn and Classify
Proteins in Linear Time and Space
15:15-15:45 break
15:45-16:35 S. Batzoglou, B. Berger, J. P. Mesirov, E. S. Lander :
Sequencing a Genome by Walking with Clone-end Sequences: A Mathematical
Analysis
16:10-16:35 M. T. Hallett, J. Lagergren :
New Algorithms for the Duplication-Loss Model
16:35 End of Conference
17:00 sightseeing tour: boat ride and dinner (optional)
