Conference Program

Day 1, 4th October 1999
900-1300 Workshop, Tutorials
900 Tutorial: The Biology and Bioinformatics of Regulatory Regions in Genomes
Thomas Werner, Institute of Mammalian Genetics, GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Munich
1400-1430 Opening
1430-1615 Molecular and Genome Evolution
1430 Keynote: What can bioinformatics contribute to explain the origin of life?
David Penny, Massey University
1515 A new Method for Modeling Protein Evolution
Tobias Müller, Rainer Spang, Martin Vingron, DKFZ Heidelberg
1545 Topology in Phenotype Space
Jan Cupal, Peter Schuster, Peter F. Stadler, Institut für theoretische Chemie, Universität Wien
1615-1645 Coffee break
1645-1900 Sequence/Structure/ Function Relations -1
1645 Keynote: An Information Theoretic Analysis of Correlation Among Amino Acid Sites in bHLH Protein Domains
Bill Atchley, North Carolina State University
1730 Combining Divide-and-Conquer, the A*-Algorithm, and Successive Realignment Approaches to Speed up Multiple Sequence Alignment
Knut Reinert, Celera Genomics;Jens Stoye, DKFZ Heidelberg; Torsten Will, FSPM Universität Bielefeld
1800 Predicting Transcription Factor Binding Sites by Constructing Context Specific Matrices
Niels Grabe, Ralf Hofestädt, ITI Universität Magdeburg
1830 Engineering Support Vector Machine Kernels that Recognize Translation Initiation Sites in DNA
Alexander Zien, G. Rätsch, S. Mika, B. Schölkopf, C. Lemmen, A. Smola, T. Lengauer, K.-R. Müller, GMD
1900 Dinner
2000 Greetings / Welcoming messages
2030 Genome Analysis
Keynote: A Whole Genome Assembler for Drosophila
Gene Myers, Celera Genomics
  The Whole Genome Song - The Succulents
 

Day 2, 5th October 1999
900 Announcements
915 Genome Sequence Assembly Using Trace Signals and Additional Sequence Information
Bastien Chevreux, S. Suhai, DKFZ Heidelberg; T. Wetter, Universität Heidelberg
945-1230 Sequence/Structure/ Function Relations -2
945 Keynote: Methods for Predicting Target Sites of Transcriptions Factors
Akinori Sarai, RIKEN Institute
1030 SESAM: Seed Extraction Sequence Analysis Method
Normann Strack, H. Werner Mewes, Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences
1100-1130 Coffee break
1130 Phylogeny Meets Sequence Search
Marc Rehmsmeier, Martin Vingron, DKFZ Heidelberg
1200 Conserved Secondary Structures in HBV Pregenomic RNA
Roman Stocsits, Ivo L. Hofacker, Peter F. Stadler, Institut für theoretische Chemie, Universität Wien
1230-1330 Lunch
1330-1600 Poster Session
DECHEMA-Ausschuß "Bioinformatik" (1300-1430)
FG der GI (1430-1600)
1600-1815 Protein and Drug Design
1600 Keynote: Functional Genomics - An Integrated Approach to the Biosciences
Dietmar Schomburg, University of Cologne
1645 Rapid Software Prototyping in Computational Molecular Biology
Oliver Kohlbacher, Hans-Peter Lenhof, Max-Planck Institut für Informatik
1715 Algorithmic Approach to Quantifying the Hydrophobic Force Contribution in Protein Folding
Rolf Backofen, S. Will, P. Clote, Institut für Informatik, Universität München
1745 An Efficient Potential for Protein Sequence Design
G. Weberndorfer, I.L. Hofacker, P.F. Stadler, Institut für theoretische Chemie, Universität Wien
1900 Departure for Conference Dinner
1930 Conference Dinner at Wuelfeler Brauereigaststätten
(with local specialties of Lower Saxony)
 

Day 3, 6th October 1999
900 Announcements
915-1115 Metabolic and Regulatory Networks
915 Quantitative Approach to the Analysis of Complex Hormonal Signaling
Klaus Prank, Georg Brabant, Department of Clinical Endocrinology, Medical School Hannover
945 Nonlinear Numerical Optimzation Technique Based on Genetic Algorithm for Inverse Problem: Towards the Inference of Genetic Networks
Daisuke Tominaga, Masahiro Okamoto, Kyushu Institute of Technology; Yukihiro Maki, Shoji Watanabe, Yukihiro Eguchi, Research Institute, Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co., Ltd
1015 Pathway Analysis in Metabolic Databases via Differential Metabolic Display (DMD)
Robert Küffner, Ralf Zimmer, Thomas Lengauer, GMD
1045 E2F Composite Units in Promoters of Cell Cycle Genes
Alexander Kel, Olga Kel-Margoulis, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk; Edgar Wingender, GBF Braunschweig
1115-1145 Coffee break
1145-1400 Intelligent Biological Databases
1145 Keynote: Integration of Biomedical Information
Jaime Prilusky, Weizmann Institute of Science
1230 Ontological Design Patterns for the Integration of Molecular Biological Information
Jacqueline Renée Reich, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
1300 HOBACGEN: A Database of Homologous Genes in Bacteria
Guy Perrière, Laurent Duret, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Université Claude Bernard
1330 A Database Framework for Mapping Expression Patterns
X. Chen, Peking University; A. Dress, Universität Bielefeld; H. Karas, BIOBASE GmbH; I. Reuter, E. Wingender, GBF Braunschweig

The Conference ends at 14.00