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