Program

List of accepted papers.

Tuesday, 19. September 2006

Tutorials will be held at the CS department, Sand 6/7.

12:00 Registration open
   
13:00 Daniel Huson (Lecture Hall 1)


Yu Wang (Lecture Hall 2)

   
15:30 Coffee Break
   
16:00 Gunnar Rätsch and Cheng Soon Ong (Lecture Hall 1)


Hagit Shatkay (Lecture Hall 2)

   
18:30 Reception (Sand 1, A104)

Wednesday, 20. September 2006

Main conference venue: Kupferbau, Hölderlinstraße

08:00 Registration Open
   
08:30 Welcome Address (Oliver Kohlbacher)
   
 

Session 1: Expression Analysis (chair: Andreas Zell)

08:45 Detlef Weigel (invited speaker)

Genome-wide analysis of sequence variation in Arabidopsis thaliana
09:30 Lottaz, Toedling, Spang

Annotation-based Distance Measures for Patient Subgroup Discovery in Clinical Microarray Studies (LP, 118)
10:00 Rätsch, Hepp, Schulze, Ong

PALMA: Perfect Alignments using Large Margin Algorithms (LP, 178)
10:30 Grau, Ben-Gal, Gohr et al.

Prediction of eukaryotic transcription factor binding sites using Variable Order Markov models (SP, 139)
   
10:50 Coffee Break
   
 

Session 2: Protein Interactions (chair: Ralf Zimmer)

11:20 Canzar, Remy

Shape Distributions and Protein Similarity (LP, 151)
11:50 Hakenberg, Plake, Schiemann, Leser

Ali Baba - Accessing PubMed using graphs (SP, 128)
12:10 Griewel, Rarey

Computational Macromolecular Assembly: A Geometric Hashing Approach (SP, 179)
   
12:35 Lunch Break (Kupferbau, ground floor)
   
 

Session 3: Sequence Analysis (chair: Kay Nieselt)

14:00 Cedric Notredame (invited speaker)

Combining Sequence Information with T-Coffee
14:45 de Carvalho, Rahmann

Microarray Layout as Quadratic Assignment Problem (LP, 184)
15:15 Halpern, Chiapello, Robin et al.

Determination of the mosaic structure of bacterial chromosomes and application to prediction of short motifs involved in DNA repair (SP)
15:35 Mosig, Hofacker, Stadler

Comparative Analysis of Cyclic Sequences: Viroids and other Small Circular RNAs (LP, 144)
   
16:05 Coffee Break
   
  Society Meetings (Location: Alte Physik)
15:00 GBM
16:00 GI
   
16:30 Poster session (Kupferbau, foyer)

 
 

Software demos (Kupferbau, lecture hall 23 and 25, dual track)

16:30 Stamatakis
  Inferring Phylogenies with RAxML-VI-HPC (H25)
  Grau, Ben-Gal, Posch
  VOMBAT: A web-server for predicting transcription factor binding sites… (H23)
17:30 Schmidt, Frishman
  PROMPT: A Protein Mapping and Comparison Tool (H25)
  Bazzan
  ATUCG – An Agent-Based Environment for Automating Annotation (H23)
   
19:30 PC Dinner (by invitation only)

Thursday, 21. September 2006

Main conference venue: Kupferbau, Hölderlinstraße

 

Session 4: Protein Interactions (chair: Dietmar Schomburg)

08:30 Rob Russell (invited speaker)

Pushing details into interaction networks
09:15 Schlicker, Huthmacher, Ramirez et al.

Functional evaluation of predicted domain-domain interactions and human protein interaction networks (LP,190)
09:45 Futschik, Chaurasia, Wanker, Herzel

Comparison of Human Protein-Protein Interaction Maps (LP,194)
10:15 Kim, Lu, Xia, Gerstein

Redefining Nodes and Edges: Relating 3D Structures to Protein Interaction Networks Provides Insights into their Evolution (SP,126)
   
10:35 Coffee Break
   
 

Session 5: Protein Interactions (chair: Andrei Lupas)

11:15 David Jones (invited speaker)

Docking protein domains using a contact map representation
12:00 Antes, Siu, Lengauer

DynaPred: A combined structure and sequence based method for the prediction of MHC class I binding peptide sequences and conformations (SP,141)
   
12:20 Lunch Break (Kupferbau, ground floor)
   
 

Session 6 (chair: Johannes Söding)

14:00 Gene Myers (invited speaker)

Imaging-Based Systems Biology
14:45 Hamborg, Kleffe

MPI-ClustDB: A fast String Matching Strategy utilizing Parallel Computing (LP,196)
15:15 Presentation of GCB 2007
   
 

Society meetings ( Location: Alte Physik )

15:30 DECHEMA
   
16:00 Punting tour on the Neckar river

Guided tour of Tübingen (English/German)
   
19:30 Banquet ("Die Kelter")

Friday, 22. September 2006

Main conference venue: Kupferbau, Hölderlinstraße

 

Session 7: Protein Interactions (chair: Thomas Lengauer)

08:30 Mukund Thattai (invited speaker)

Encoding evolvability: The hierarchical language of polyketide synthase protein interactions
09:15 Winter, Baust, Hoflack et al.

A novel, comprehensive method to detect and predict protein-protein interactions applied to the study of vesicular trafficking (LP,142)
09:45 Küffner, Duchrow, Fundel, Zimmer

Characterization of Protein Interactions (LP,175)
10:15 Kottha, Schröder

Classifying permanent and transient protein interactions (LP,117)
   
10:45 Coffee Break
   
 

Session 8: Mass Spectrometry (chair: Knut Reinert)

11:15 Pöschl, Böttcher, Clemens et al.

Analysis of Metabolite relations in LCMS data using Bayesian Networks (SP,149)
11:35 Heinonen, Rantanen, Mielikäinen et al.

Ab Initio Prediction of Molecular Fragments from Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LP,177)
   
12:05 Lunch Break (Kupferbau, ground floor)
   
   
 

Special Session of the DFG Centers of Excellence in Bioinformatics

13:15 Introductory Remarks (Dr. Nikolai Raffler, DFG)
13:30 Introductory Remarks (Dr. Fischer, MWK BW)

Presentations of the five DFG Centers of Excellence
13:45 Institute for Bioinformatics at CeBiTec (Bielefeld)
14:05 Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Bioinformatik (Leipzig)
14:25 Bioinformatik-Initiative München (München)
   
14:45 Coffee Break
   
15:15 Zentrum für Bioinformatik Saar (Saarbrücken)
15:35 Zentrum für Bioinformatik Tübingen (Tübingen)
   
15:55 Panel discussion w/ representatives of the centers

"Bioinformatics -- Quo vadis?" (chair: Knut Reinert)
   
16:30 Closing remarks (Andrei Lupas)
   
  End of Conference