Technical Program



Fri Oct 3, 2008

 

Fri Oct 3, 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM  Welcome Address
 

Plenary Talk #1: Reverse engineering of gene networks: Overview & applications
Fri  Oct 3, 9:30 AM – 10:25 AM, Speaker: Mario Lauria, Systems Biology Lab, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Via P. Castellino 111, 80131, Naples, Italy


Fri Oct 3, 10:25 AM – 10:50 AM  Coffee Break
 

CIBB Regular Session         

Fri Oct 3, 10:50 AM – 12:50 PM  – Chair: Michele Ceccarelli

10:50 AM Comparative In Silico Evaluation of MYB Transcription Factors in Eucalyptus, Sugarcane and Rice, N. M. Soares-Cavalcanti, A. C. Wanderley-Nogueira, L. C. Belarmino, P. Barros dos Santos and A. M. Benko-Iseppon

11:05 AM Building Maps of Drugs Mode-of-Action from Gene Expression Data, F. Iorio, R. Tagliaferri and D. Di Bernardo

11:20 AM In Silico Evaluation of Osmoprotectants in Eucalyptus Transcriptome, P. Barros dos Santos, N. M. Soares-Cavalcanti, G. S. Vieira-Mello, A. C. Wanderley-Nogueira, T. Calsa-Junior and A. M. Benko-Iseppon

11:35 AM Mining Association Rules Bases from Integrated Genomic Data and Annotations, R. Martinez, N. Pasquier and C. Pasquier

11:50 AM Stability Indexes and Performances of Biclustering Algorithms, M. Filippone, F. Masulli, S. Rovetta and L. Zini

12:05 PM Splice site prediction using artificial neural networks, Ø. Johansen, T. Ryen, T. Eftestøl, T. Kjosmoen and P. Ruoff

12:20 PM Interval length analysis in multi layer model, V. Di Gesù, G. Lo Bosco and L. Pinello

12:35 PM A multivariate algorithm for gene selection based on the nearest neighbor probability, E. Ferrari and M. Muselli


Fri Oct 3, 12:50  PM –  2:30 PM  Lunch


CIBB Regular Session

Fri Oct 3, 2:30  PM –  4:15 PM – Chair: Gennaro Miele

2:30 PM Control of cellular glycolysis by perturbation into the glucose influx, J. A. de la Torre, M. del Carmen Lemos and A. Cordoba

2:45 PM Curating a large-scale regulatory network by evaluating its consistency with expression datasets, Carito Guziolowski, Jeremy Gruel, Ovidiu Radulescu and Anne Siegel

3:00 PM Agent based modeling of humoral immune response to atherogenesis, F. Pappalardo, F. Gullo, R. Catanuto, E. Mastriani, M. Pennisi, S. Musumeci and S. Motta

3:15 PM Assessing the power of feature selection methods in complex diseases, R. Amato, S. Cocozza, D. D’Andrea, G. Miele, M. Nicodemi, M. Pinelli, G. Raiconi and R. Tagliaferri

3:30 PM Spatial Clustering of Molecular Dynamic Trajectories in Protein Unfolding Simulations, P. Ferreira, C. Silva, R. Brito and P. Azevedo

3:45 PM Clustering bacteria species using neural gas: preliminary study, C. Mirabello, R. Rizzo, A. Urso, and S. Gaglio

4:00 PM A New Linear Initialization in SOM for Biomolecular Data, A. Fiannaca(1,2), G. Di Fatta(3), R. Rizzo(2), A. Urso and S. Gaglio

 

Fri Oct 3, 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM  Coffee Break

 

INNS Bioinformatics SIG:  Activities and perspectives

Fri Oct 3, 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM – Chairs: F. Masulli and R. Tagliaferri

 

Special Session: ISMDS - Intelligent Systems for Medical Decisions Support

Fri Oct 3, 5:00 PM – 6:55 PM – Chairs: A. Floares and J. DeLeo

5:00 PM Special Session Welcome, A. Floares and J. DeLeo

5:10 PM Topology Preserving Neural Networks for Peptide Design in Drug Discovery, J. Wichard and R. K¨uhne

5:25 PM A Machine Learning Approach to Mass Spectra Classification with Unsupervised Feature Selection, M. Ceccarelli, A. d’Acierno, A. Facchiano

5:40 PM Liver Intelligent Virtual Biopsy and the Intelligent Metavir and Ishak Fibrosis Scoring System, A.G. Floares

5:55 PM A statistical pattern recognition analysis of TP53 mutation types and sites and dietary patterns, F. Bishehsari, M. Mahdavinia, R. Malekzadeh, R. Mariani-Costantini, G. Miele, F. Napolitano, G. Raiconi, R. Tagliaferri, F. Verginelli

6:10 PM, Corticobasal Syndrome Patient Subtyping with HubuHTM – a New Clustering Algorithm, M. Clinton, J. DeLeo, J. Grafman

6:25 PM The Intelligent Coin: A Statistical Test for Automated Pattern Classification Systmes in Medicine and Bioinformatics, J. E. Dayhoff

6:40 PM Protocol Adherence versus Pattern Recognition in Healthcare Informatics, A. Turano

 

 

Fri Oct 3, 08:00 PM  Social CIBB 2008 Conference DINNER


 

Sat Oct 4, 2008

           

Plenary Talk #2: Unsupervised stability-based ensembles to discover reliable structures in complex bio-molecular data (invited review talk)

Sat Oct 4, 9:30 AM – 10:25 AM, Speaker: Giorgio Valentini, DSI, Università degli Studi, Milano, Italy

 

CIBB Regular Session

Sat Oct 4, 10:25  AM –  11:25 AM – Chair: TBD

10:25 AM 3D Volume Reconstruction and Biometric Analysis of Fetal Brain from MRImages, P. Campadelli, E. Casiraghi and G. Serrao

10:40 AM Searching for glycomics role in stem cell development, A. Sorathiya, T. Jucikas, S. Piecewicz, S. Sengupta and P. Liò

10:55 AM A new protein representation based on fragment contacts: towards an improvement of contact maps predictions, P. Di Lena, L. Margara, M. Vassura, P. Fariselli and R. Casadio

11:10 AM Analysis of kernel based protein classification strategies using pairwise sequence alignment measures, D. Franklin and S. Pongor

 

Sat Oct 4, 11:25 AM – 11:45 AM  Coffee Break

 

Special Session:  Maliob - Machine learning and intelligent optimization in bioinformatics

Sat Oct 4, 11:45 AM – 1:25 PM – Chairs: A. Passerini, R. Battiti, and M. Brunato

11:45 AM Special Session Welcome, A. Passerini, R. Battiti, and M. Brunato

11:55 AM Efficient parameter estimation for RNA secondary structure prediction, M. Andronescu, A. Condon, H. Hoos, D.H. Mathews and K.P. Murphy.

12:10 AM Distill, protein structure prediction by machine learning, Gl. Pollastri

12:25 AM Reactive Search for Protein 3D Structure Prediction, R. Battiti, C. Di Risio, S. Teso

12:40 AM Filtering proteomes for sequence annotation in eukaryots, R. Casadio, P. Fariselli, P.L. Martelli, A. Pierleoni

12:55 AM Making the best use of high throughput data, V.-A.Nguyen, Z. Koukolikova-Nicola, F. Bagnoli, P. Lio'

13:10 AM Predicting Catalytic Residues from Sequence and Structural Information, E. Cilia, A. Passerini, M. Brunato

 
 

Sat  Oct 4, 1:25 PM – 3:00 PM  Lunch

 

Special Session: Computational Intelligence for Biological Data Visualization

Sat  Oct 4, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM - Chairs: L. Milanesi, R. Rizzo and A. Urso        

03:00 PM Special Session Welcome,  L. Milanesi, R. Rizzo and A. Urso

03:10 PM  The Systems Biology Graphical Notation (invited talk), Speaker: Nicolas Le Novere, Computational Neurobiology, EMBL-EBI, Wellcome-Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton,UK

04.05 PM An Extension of the TIGR M4 Suite to Manage and Visualize Affymetrix Binary Files, M. Cannataro, M.T. Di Martino, P. Hiram Guzzi, P. Tagliaferri, P. Tassone, G. Tradigo, and Pa. Veltri

4:20 PM A Supervised Learning Technique and its Applications to Computational Biology, M.R. Guarracino, A. Chinchuluun and P.M. Pardalos

04:35 PM A Visualization ToolKit based Application for Representing Macromolecular Surfaces, P. Cozzi, I. Merelli and L. Milanesi

04:50 PM A System for the Automatic Classification of Medical Documents and Images, V. Cannella, G. Russo and R. Pirrone



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