Friday, April 1
 
1:00 - 1:15 Welcome & Introductory Remarks
 
 
Sequence Based Genome Analysis
  Plenary Speaker
1:15 - 2:00 Boltzman Weighted Ensembles of RNA Secondary Charles (Chip) E. Lawrence
  Structures and the Curse of Dimensionality Center for Computational Molecular Biology
Division of Applied Mathematics
Brown University
   
2:00 - 2:45 Computational Prediction of Regulatory Elements in DNA  Martin Tompa
by Comparative Sequence Analysis  Computer Science and Engineering
Univ. of Washington
   
2:45 - 3:00 Break  
   
3:00 - 3:45 Coding SNPs, evolution and disease phenotype: Paul D. Thomas
genome-wide bioinformatics predictions and Applied Biosystems
experimental functional studies  
   
3:45 - 4:00 Quantitative Analysis of Experimental Binding Affinities of 126 DNA- Derek Cashman
Binding Compounds versus 13 Nucleic Acid Sequences to Investigate Specificity  
   
4:00 - 4:15 MPrime: Efficient Large Scale Multiple Primer and Oligonucleotide Design for Eric Rouchka
Customized Gene Microarrays  
   
4:15 - 4:30 Exon signal enhancers finding through phylogenetic footprinting Stefan Kirov
   
4:30 - 4:45 RepeatAssembler: A Package for Annotation of Full-length Repetitive DNA Mark Farman
Sequences in Fungal Genomes  
  Weixi Li
4:45 - 5:00 TERMINUS: Telomeric End Reads Mining In Unassembled Sequences  
   
5:00 - 6:00 Reception  
   
6:00 - 7:00 Dinner  
   
7:00 - 8:00 Challenges in Genome Annotation and Data Integration Richard J. Mural
Director, Scientific Analysis
Celera Genomics
   
   
Saturday, April 2  
   
8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast at Conference Center  
   
Combinatorial Algorithms  
  Plenary Speaker
9:00 - 9:45 Phylogenetic Networks with Constrained and Unconstrained Recombination Dan Gusfield
UC Davis
   
9:45 - 10:00 Fusion of Multiple Decision Models in Proteomic Biomarker Discovery A.S. Thomas
   
10:00 - 10:15 Using Domination Numbers in Trees to Analyze Secondary RNA Structure Debra Knisley
   
10:15 - 10:30 Transcriptome-QTL analysis of correlated CNS transcripts in WebQTL Elissa Chesler
reveals major genetic variation in synaptic vesicle related gene expression  
   
10:30 - 10:45 Break  
   
10:45 - 11:00 Literature Based Functional Analysis of Microarray Data Ramin Homayouni
   
11:00 - 11:15 Identifying candidate genes for nicotine addiction by combining data Hao Chen
and text-mining approaches  
   
11:15 - 11:30 Detection of Network Motifs in Large Biological Databases Xinxia Peng
   
11:30 - 11:45 Gene Expression Data from Correlation to Cluster Processing using John Scharff
Low-Dose IR Data for Illustration  
   
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch  
   
1:00 - 4:00 Free time  
   
4:00 - 6:00 Poster session/Reception  
   
6:00 - 7:00 Dinner in resort dining room  
   
Workshops, special interest group meetings  
   
7:00 - 8:00 Education Training in Bioinformatics Jay Snoddy, Mike Langston
Rudy Parrish
   
8:30 - 10:00 Web QTL Update Rob Williams, Ken Manly
Elissa Chesler
   
   
Sunday, April 3  
   
8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast in Conference Center  
   
Gene Expression, Visualization, and the Big-Picture Synthesis  
Plenary Speaker
9:00 - 9:45 The organisation of synaptic function - a proteomic and informatic analysis Andrew Pocklington
Institute for Adaptive and
Neural Computation
University of Edinburgh, UK
   
9:45 - 10:30 Genomic Complexity from Large Scale EST Projects:   Jean Thierry-Mieg
AceView and beyond NIH
National Center for
Biotechnology Information
   
10:30 - 10:45 Microarray Analysis of Gene Expression in the Kidney Glomeruli of Diabetic Suzana Brozovic
OVE 26 mice  
   
10:45 - 11:00 Gene-Expression Analysis for CodeLink Whole Human Genome Microarray Abdelnaby Khalyfa
Using Olfactory Neuroepithelium-Derived Progenitors  
   
11:00 - 11:15 Exploring gene sets and networks within biological contexts Bing Zhang
   
11:15 - 11:30 The Cerebellar Gene Expression Database (CGED): Building a community Doug Swanson
resource for exploring genetic networks regulating cerebellar development.