APBC2004 Advanced Program 18-22 Jan, 2004, Dunedin, New Zealand

Date

Session

Time

Title

Authors

Sunday,

18/Jan

 

18:00-19:30

Welcoming - Reception

 

Monday,
19/Jan

 

 

 

09:00-10:30

ACSW Welcome and ACSC Keynote Address

10:30 - 11:00 refreshments served in Foyer of Castle Theatre Complex

APBC Opening

& S1.RNA Secondary Structure

Session Chair:

 

11:00-11:30

RNA secondary structure prediction with simple pseudoknots

Jitender S. Deogun, Ruben Donis, Olga Komina, Fangrui Ma

11:30-12:00

Filtering of Ineffective siRNAs and Improved siRNA Design Tool

Prodence WH Wong, TW Lam, YC Mui, SM Yiu, Marie Lin

12:00-12:30

Exact Pattern Matching for RNA Secondary Structures

Ying Xu, Lusheng Wang, Xiaotie Deng

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

APBC Plenary Keynote Address

14:00-15:30

“The Future of  Bioinformatics” Prof. Philip E. Bourne

Session Chair: Phoebe Chen

15:30 - 16:00 refreshments served in Foyer of Castle Theatre Complex

S2.Recognition Sequences

Session Chair:

 

16:00-16:30

Recognition Sequences in the Restriction Endonucleases.

Jan C. Biro, Josephine M.K. Biro

16:30-17:00

Multiple Sequence Alignment using Tabu Search

Tariq Riaz, Yi Wang, Kuo-Bin Li

17:00-17:30

Structure-Function Relationship in DNA sequence Recognition by Transcription Factors

 Akinori Sarai, Samuel Selvaraj, Michael M. Gromiha, Hidetoshi Kono

 

Tuesday,
20/Jan


 

 

S3.Genome Analysis

Session Chair:

 

09:00-09:30

Constructing Genome Scale Suffix Trees

 A.L. Brown

09:30-10:00

EMAGEN: An Efficient Approach to Multiple Whole Genome Alignment

Jitender S. Deogun, Jingyi Yang, Fangrui Ma

10:00-10:30

Whole-Genome Functional Classification of Genes by Latent Semantic Analysis on Microarray Data

 See-Kiong Ng, Sanjay Padmakar Khadayate, Yew-Soon Ong

10:30 - 11:00 refreshments served in Foyer of Castle Theatre Complex

S4.Protein Structures and Functions

Session Chair:

 

11:00-11:30

Protein Side-chain Packing: A maximum edge- weight Clique Algorithmic Approach

Dukka Bahadur K.C., Tatsuya Akutsu, Etsuji Tomita, Tomokazu Seki

11:30-12:00

THEMATICS is Effective for Homology Model Structures: A Simple Computational Predictor of Functional Information for Proteins

Ihsan A. Shehadi, Alper Uzun, Leonel F. Murga, Valentin Ilyin, Mary Jo Ondrechen

12:00-12:30  Informative 3D Visualization of Multiple Protein Structures Paulo Lai, Warren Kaplan, W. Bret Church, Raymond K. Wong

12:30 - 14:00  Lunch break

 

APBC Plenary

 Keynote Address

14:00-15:30

“ Molecular Imaging and Biomedical Process Modeling ”

Prof. David Dagan Feng

Session Chair: Phoebe Chen

15:30 - 16:00 refreshments served in Foyer of Castle Theatre Complex

S5.Interactive Approaches

Session Chair:

 

 

16:00-16:30

A Dihedral angle database of short sub-sequences for protein structure prediction Saravanan Dayalan, Savitri Bevinakoppa, Heiko Schroder
16:30-17:00 Nonparametric approaches to detecting differentially expressed genes in replicated microarray Markus Neuhäuser, Fred C. Lam
17:00-17:30 Mega Weaver: A Simple Iterative Approach for BAC Consensus Assembly Daolong Wang, Mario Lauria, Bo Yuan, Fred A. Wright

 Conference Dinner

 

Wednesday,
21/Jan

S6.Bio-Pathway and Prediction

Session Chair:

 

09:00-09:30

Transmembrane Region Prediction with Hydropathy Index/Charge Two-Dimensional Trajectories of Stochastic Dynamical Systems

T. Kaburagi, D. Muramatsu, S. Hashimoto, M. Sasaki, T. Matsumoto

09:30-10:00

Integrating biopathway databases for large-scale modeling and simulation

Masao Nagasaki, Satoru Miyano, Atushi Doi, Hiroshi Matsuno

10:00-10:30

PathwayFinder: Paving the Way Towards Automatic Pathway Extraction

Daming Yao, Jingbo Wang, Yanmei Lu, Nathan Noble, Huandong Sun, Xiaoyan Zhu, Nan, Lin, Donald G. Payan, Ming Li, Kunbin Qu

 

Short 1.Protein Classification and Pyrosequencing

Session Chair:

 

 

09:00-09:15

Dispensation Order Generation for Pyrosequencing *

Mats Carlsson, Nicolas Beldiceanu

09:15-09:30

Classification Comparison of Prediction of Solvent Accessibility from Protein Sequences *

Huiling Chen, Huan-Xiang Zhou, Xiaohua Hu, Illhoi Yoo

09:30-09:45

A Pathway Editor for Literature-based Knowledge Curation *

Ken Ichiro Fukuda, Toshihsa Takagi

09:45-10:00 Empirical knowledge and genetic algorithms for selection of Amide I frequencies in protein secondary structure prediction * Joachim A. Hering, Peter R. Innocent, Parvez I. Haris
10:00-10:15 Towards a Theory of Protein Adsorption: Predicting the Adsorption of Proteins on Surfaces via a Piecewise Linear Model * Dan V. Nicolau Jr.
10:15-10:30 Local prediction approach of protein classification using Probabilistic suffix trees * Zhaohui Sun, Jitender S. Deogun

10:30 - 11:00 refreshments served in Foyer of Castle Theatre Complex

S7.Virus Analysis

Session Chairs:

11:00-11:30

Detecting local symmetry axis in 3-dimensional virus structures

Jing He, Desh Ranjan, Michael F. Schmid, Wah Chiu

11:30-12:00

Initial SARS genome data analysis using a bioinformatics platform

Hong Luo, Jianmin Wu, Ge Gao, Yin Sun, Yujia Chen, Jingchu Luo

12:00-12:30

Evolution of Relative Synonymous Codon Usage in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1

Peter Meintjes, Allen Rodrigo

 

Short 2. Genome Data and Visualisation

Session Chair:

 

11:00-11:15

A rapid method of whole genome visualisation illustrating features in bothcoding and non-coding regions *

R. Hall, L. Stern

11:15-11:30

Evolving Genetic Regulatory Networks Using an Artificial Genome *

Jennifer Hallinan, Janet Wiles

11:30 - 11:45

Cluster Ensemble and Its Applications in Gene Expression Analysis *

Xiaohua Hu, Illhoi Yoo

11:45-12:00 Advanced Texturing technigs for the Effective Visualization of Neoroanatomy from Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data *  Burkhard Wuensche
12:00-12:15 Measuring Correlation between Microarray Time-series Data using Dominant Spectrum Component * Lap Kun Yeung, Hong Yan, Lap Keung Szeto, Alan Wee-Chung Liew, Michael Yang, Richard Kong

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

S8.Bioinformatics Networks

Session Chair:

 

14:00-14:30

Representing Experimental Biological Data in Metabolic Networks

Tim Dwyer, Hardy Rolletschek, Falk Schreiber

14:30-15:00

A novel method for protein subcellular localization Based on Boosting and Probabilistic Neural Network

Jian Guo, Zhirong Sun, Yuanlie Lin

15:00-15:30 BRINet: A BioResource Integration Network Jason E. Sew Hoy, John R. McDonald, Alan F. McCulloch

S9.Cancer Data and  Detection

Session Chair:

 

14:00-14:30

 

Support Vector Machine Approach for Cancer Detection using Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) Screening Method

Waiming Kong, Lawrence Tham, Yew Wong, Patrick Tan

14:30-15:00 Use of Built-in Features in the Interpretation of High-dimensional Cancer Diagnosis Data Jinyan Li, Huiqing Liu, Limsoon Wong
15:00-15:30 Using Emerging Pattern Based Projected Clustering and Gene Expression Data for Cancer Detection Larry T.H. Yu, Fu-lai Chung, Stephen C.F. Chan

15:30 - 16:00 refreshments served in Foyer of Castle Theatre Complex

S10.Microarray and Gene Expression

Session Chair:

16:00-16:30 An empirical Bayes adjustment to multiple p-values for the detection of differentially expressed genes in microarray experiments

Somnath Datta and

Susmita Datta

16:30-17:00 A Novel Feature Selection Method to Improve Classification of Gene Expression Data Liang Goh, Qun Song, Nikola Kasabov
17:00-17:30 On the Simutaneous Use of Clinical and Microarray Expression Data in the Cluster Analysis of Tissue Samples G. J. McLaclan, S. Chang, J. Mar, C. Ambroise

 

Thursday,
22/Jan

S11.Discovery and Search Algorithm

Session Chair:

 

09:00-09:30 Variable-length Intervals in Homology Search Abhijit Chattaraj, Hugh E. Williams
09:30-10:00 Ladderlike Stepping and Interval Jumping Searching Algorithms for DNA Sequences Tun-Wen Pai, Jia-Han Chu, Wei-Yuan Chang, Margaret Dah-Tsyr Chang, Hsiu Ling Tai
10:00-10:30 A Combined Model and a Varied Gibbs Sampling Algorithm Used for Motif Discovery Xiaoming Wu, Bo Wang, Changxin Song, Jingzhi Cheng

10:30 - 11:00 refreshments served in Foyer of Castle Theatre Complex

S12-1.Phylogenetic Analysis

Session Chair:

11:00-11:30 An Overview of the Phylogenetics Analysis Library Matthew Goode, Korbinian Strimmer, Alexei Drummond, Ed Buckler
11:30-12:00 Identifying Character Non-Independence in Phylogenetic Data Using Data Mining Techniques Anne M. Maglia, Jennifer L. Leopold, Venkat Ram Ghatti

S12-2 Short. Phylogenetic Analysis

Session Chair:

 

12:00-12:15 Phylogenetic Trees: An Information Visualisation Perspective * Savrina Flora Carrizo
12:15-12:30  Phylogenetic tree of prokaryotes based on the complete genomes using fractal and correlation analyses *  Zu-Guo Yu, Vo Anh

  APBC2004 Close

 Any query please check with APBC2004  PC Chair Dr. Phoebe Chen at p.chen@qut.edu.au