GENSIPS 2009
TECHNICAL PROGRAM
Sunday, May 17, 2009
1:00-2:00 University Ballroom CD
Tutorial 1: Inferring Biological Networks from Diverse Data Instructor: Chad Myers, Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
2:00-3:00 University Ballroom CD
Tutorial 2: Information-Theoretic Methods for Reverse Engineering of Gene Regulatory Networks Instructor: Olgica Milenkovic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
3:00-3:30
Coffee Break
3:30-5:30 University Ballroom CD
Poster Session 1: Identification and Classification of Genomic Structure Chair: Ulisses M. Braga-Neto, Texas A&M University
Parameswaran Ramachandran, Wu-Sheng Lu, and Andreas Antoniou Tuning Technique for the Location of Hot Spots in Proteins Using A Bandpass Notch Digital Filter POSTER
Sitanshu Sekhar Sahu1 and Ganapati Panda A New Approach for Identification of Hot Spots in Proteins Using S-Transform Filtering POSTER
Ranadip Pal, Aniruddha Datta and Edward Dougherty Quantification of data extraction noise in Probabilistic Boolean Network Modeling POSTER
Nilanjana Banerjee, Yasser alSafadi, Vinay Varadan, Sitharthan Kamalakaran, Angel Janevski TOWARDS IDENTIFICATION OF THEMATIC OVERLAPS IN GENE SETS POSTER
Chao Sima, Thang Vu, Ulisses M. Braga-Neto and Edward R. Dougherty BOLSTERED ERROR ESTIMATOR WITH FEATURE SELECTION POSTER
Babak Faryabi, Golnaz Vahedi, Jean-Francois Chamberland, Aniruddha Datta, Edward R. Dougherty Open-Loop Feedback Intervention: Control of Gene Regulatory Networks with Unmeasurable Context POSTER
L. Yu and S. Marshal THE PARTITION OF TEMPORAL GENE EXPRESSION SEQUENCE USING DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM FOR MODELLING POSTER
Xiyi Hang, Wei Dai, Fang-Xiang Wu and Olgcia Milenkovic SUBSPACE PURSUIT FOR GENE PROFILE CLASSIFICAITON POSTER
Sara Nasser, Glen J. Weiss, Aarati R. Ranade and Seungchan Kim IN-SILICO CONDITIONING OF MICRORNA TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL BIOMARKERS FROM SERUM FOR PANCREATIC CANCER POSTER
Aparna Gorthi, Ravi Jain, Nevenka Dimitrova A Machine Learning Approach for Classifying Histone Modifications POSTER
M. Fiasché1, M. Cuzzola, M. Cacciola, G. Megali, R. Fedele, P. Iacopino, F.C. Morabito A NEURAL NETWORK MODEL FOR EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF ACUTE GVHD BASED ON GENE EXPRESSION DATA POSTER
6:00-7:00 University Ballroom A
Welcome Reception
Monday, May 18, 2009
7:00-8:00
Continental Breakfast
8:00-9:00 University Ballroom CD
Plenary Talk 1: Gary P. Schroth, Illlumina Inc., San Diego, USA Title: Enabling Genome Biology with Next-Generation DNA Sequencing
Chair: Peter Beyerlein, University of Wildau, Germany
9:00-10:00 University Ballroom CD
Tutorial 3: Deciphering Cancer Genetics: Promise of Personalized Medicine Instructor: Shahab Asgharzadeh, Medicine, USC, Los Angeles, USA
10:00-10:15 University Ballroom CD
Coffee Break
10:15-12:00 University Ballroom CD
Lecture Session 1: Gene Regulatory Networks Chair: Gaurav Sharma, University of Rochester
Xiaoning Qian1, Edward R. Dougherty Control-compatible State Reduction for Boolean Networks LECTURE
Golnaz Vahedi, Ilya Shmulevich, Wenbin Liu, and Edward Dougherty CRITICAL BOOLEAN NETWORKS REQUIRE MINIMAL INTERVENTION RATE LECTURE
Zhouyi Xu and Xiaodong Cai Modified K-Leap Method for Stochastic Simulation of Genetic Networks with Small Number of Molecules LECTURE
David C. Martins-Jr, Evaldo A. de Oliveira, Paulo J. S. Silva, Ronaldo F. Hashimoto Revealing temporal genetic regulatory networks from steady-state distributions LECTURE
Carlos H. A. Higa, Ronaldo F. Hashimoto, Roberto Hirata Jr., Nina S. T. Hirata and Carlos S. Santos INFERENCE OF REGULATORY NETWORK USING TEMPORAL COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION OBTAINED FROM ERGODIC MARKOV CHAINS LECTURE
10:15-12:00 Faculty Room
Special Session 1: RNA Sequence Analysis & Noncoding RNA Prediction Organizer and Chair: Byung-Jun Yoon, Texas A&M University
Gustavo Glusman MINING “JUNK” DNA TO FIND HIDDEN TRANSCRIPTIONAL GEM LECTURE
Juan Caballero and Gustavo Glusman ENHANCING GENE DETECTION WITH COMPUTER GENERATED INTERGENIC REGIONS LECTURE
Arif Harmanci, Gaurav Sharma, and David Mathews Joint Stochastic Sampling for RNA Secondary Structure Prediction LECTURE
Byung-Jun Yoon Simple Alignment Constraints for Efficient Alignment of RNA Sequences Using Family-Specific Models LECTURE
Hui Liu, Dong Yue, Yidong Chen, and Yufei Huang A comprehensive study of a SVM-based miRNA target prediction algorithm LECTURE
12:00-1:00
Lunch
1:00-2:00 University Ballroom CD
Plenary Talk 2: Wen-Hsiung Li, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA, and Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Title: Computational problems in genomics
Chair: Gaurav Sharma, University of Rochester
2:00-3:00 University Ballroom CD
Tutorial 4: Modeling and Analysis of Biochemical Reaction Systems: Current Techniques and Future Challenges Instructor: John Goutisas, Center for Imaging Science, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
3:00-3:30
Coffee Break
3:30-4:30 University Ballroom CD
Lecture Session 2: Linear Classification in Genomic Signal Processing Chair: Ulisses M. Braga-Neto, Texas A&M University
Amin Zollanvari, Ulisses M. Braga-Neto and Edward R. Dougherty SAMPLE SIZE CALCULATION FROM SPECIFIED RMS OF THE RESUBSTITUTION ERROR FOR LINEAR CLASSIFIERS LECTURE
Thang T. Vu1, Ulisses M. Braga-Neto1 and Edward R. Dougherty BAGGING DEGRADES THE PERFORMANCE OF LINEAR DISCRIMINANT CLASSIFIERS LECTURE
Lingyan Sheng, Antonio Ortega, Roger Pique-Regi, Shahab Asgharzadeh TREELETS AS FEATURE TRANSFORMATION TOOL FOR BLOCK DIAGONAL LINEAR DISCRIMINATION LECTURE
3:30-5:30 University Ballroom B
Poster Session 2: Modeling and Analysis of Genomic Structure Chair: Stephen Marshall, University of Strathclyde
Ranadip Pal Analyzing Steady State Probability Distributions of Context-Sensitive Probabilistic Boolean Networks POSTER
Hossein Zare, Mostafa Kaveh, and Arkady B. Khodursky ENTROPY-BASED ANALYSIS OF CHIP-SEQUENCING DATA POSTER
Vibha Mane, M´onica F. Bugallo, Petar M. Djuri´ STOCHASTIC MODELING OF SECOND ORDER REACTIONS USING A MOMENT PROPAGATION METHOD POSTER
Albert Oliveras-Vergés MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD FACTOR ANALYSIS IN MALARIA CYTOKINE ANALYSIS AND MODELLING POSTER
Le Yu, Steven Watterson, Stephen Marshall and Peter Ghazal A GENERAL MODEL FOR INFERRING A BOOLEAN NETWORK WITH PERTURBATION FROM SPARSE GENE EXPRESSION DATA POSTER
Ronaldo Fumio Hashimoto, Henrique Stagni and Carlos Henrique Aguena Higa BUDDING YEAST CELL CYCLE MODELED BY CONTEXT-SENSITIVE PROBABILISTIC BOOLEAN NETWORK POSTER
Noushin Ghaffari, Ivan Ivanov, and Edward Dougherty A COD BASED REDUCTION ALGORITHM FOR BOOLEAN AND PROBABILISTIC BOOLEAN NETWORKS POSTER
Fabr´icio M. Lopes1;2, David C. Martins-Jr1 and Roberto M. Cesar-Jr Comparative study of GRN's inference methods based on feature selection by mutual information POSTER
Liming Wang and Dan Schonfeld Consistency in Representation and Transformation of Genomic Sequences POSTER
6:00-7:30 University Ballroom A
Dinner
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
7:00-8:00
Continental Breakfast
8:00-9:00 University Ballroom CD
Plenary Talk 3: Yves Lussier, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA Title: Using Phenomic Networks for Therapeutic Target and Biomarker Discovery
Chair: Nevenka Dimitrova, Philips Research Labs
9:00-10:00 University Ballroom CD
Lecture Session 3: Temporal Analysis of Genomic Data Chair: Nidhal Bouaynaya, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Mahsuni Gokdemir and Haris Vikalo A PARTICLE FILTERING ALGORITHM FOR PARAMETER ESTIMATION IN REAL-TIME BIOSENSOR ARRAYS LECTURE
Raman Arora, Colin Dewey and William A. Sethares Reconstructing latent periods in genome sequences with insertions and deletions LECTURE
Nidhal Bouaynaya, Dan Schonfeld and Radhakrishnan Nagarajan ANALYSIS OF TEMPORAL GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES USING TIME-DEPENDENT MUSIC ALGORITHM LECTURE
9:00-10:00 Faculty Room
Special Session 2: Plant genomic: Current trends and opportunities for signal processing Organizer and Chair: Alain B. Tchagang, Institute for Information Technology, Montreal
Lin Wang1, 2, Fumiaki Katagiri1 and Jane Glazebrook1 ARABIDOPSIS DEFENSE RESPONSE AGAINST PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE - EFFECTS OF MAJOR REGULATORY GENES AND THE IMPACT OF CORONATINE LECTURE
Viviane Tchonang Leuche and Ahmed Tewfik COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONALLY RELATED GENES IN MOUSE RESPONSE TO PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI LECTURE
Alain Tchagang, Hugo Bérubé, Ziying Liu, Sieu Phan, Fazel Famili, and Youlian Pan TOWARDS THE RECONSTRUCTION OF BRASSICA NAPUS SEED DEVELOPMENT FA METABOLISM DYNAMIC REGULATORY MAP LECTURE
10:00-10:15
Coffee Break
10:15-12:00 University Ballroom CD
Lecture Session 3: Stochastic Modeling and Simulation of Genomic Data Chair: Haris Vikalo, University of Texas at Austin
Abdullah K. Alqallaf, Ahmed H. Tewfik, Paula Krakowiak, Flora Tassone, Ryan Davis, Robin Hansen, Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Isaac Pessah, Jeff Gregg and Scott B. Selleck IDENTIFYING PATTERNS OF COPY NUMBER VARIANTS IN CASE-CONTROL STUDIES OF HUMAN GENETIC DISORDERS LECTURE
Abdullah K. Alqallaf1, Ahmed H. Tewfik1, and Scott B. Sell GENETIC VARIATION DETECTION USING MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR LECTURE
Sang Hyun Lee, Haris Vikalo and Sriram Vishwanath Message-passing for motif finding LECTURE
Sahar M.Monfared, Vikram Krishnamurthy Fellow, IEEE1 and Bruce Cornell STOCHASTIC MODELING AND SIGNAL PROCESSING OF NANO-SCALE PROTEIN-BASED BIOSENSORS LECTURE
Shreepriya Das, Haris Vikalo and Arjang Hassibi Stochastic Modeling of Reaction Kinetics in Biosensors using the Fokker Planck Equation LECTURE
10:15-12:00 Faculty Room
Special Session 3: Data mining and machine learning applications in bioinformatics and systems biology Organizers and Chairs: Chad Myers, Rui Kuang, University of Minnesota
Matthew Hibbs The effects of pre-processing and parameter choices on similarity searches through large gene expression data collections LECTURE
Jeremy Bellay, Benjamin VanderSluis, Yungil Kim, Sunayan Bandyopadhyay1, and Chad L. Myers Characterization of systems-level organization through mining large-scale genetic interaction networks LECTURE
Gaurav Pandey, Gowtham Atluri, Gang Fang, Rohit Gupta, Michael Steinbach and Vipin Kumar Association Analysis Techniques for Analyzing Complex Biological Data Sets LECTURE
Thanh Ngo and Rui Kuang Partial profile alignment kernels for protein classification LECTURE
Ze Tian, TaeHyun Hwang and Rui Kuang A HYPERGRAPH-BASED LEARNING ALGORITHM FOR CLASSIFYING ARRAYCGH DATA WITH SPATIAL PRIOR LECTURE
12:00-1:00
Lunch
1:00-2:00 University BallRoom CD
Plenary Talk 4: Andreas S. Beutler, Mayo Clinic, Minnepolis, USA Title: Transcriptome Reprogramming in Chronic Pain Mapped by RNA-seq
Chair: Peter Beyerlein, University of Wildau, Germany
2:00-3:00 Faculty Foom
Special Session 4: Static & Dynamic Disease Modeling Organizer and Chair: Peter Beyerlein, University of Wildau, Germany
Stephanie Tscherneck, Sarah Strunk, Christian Schmidt, Paul Hammer1, Ronny Amberg, Chong Wang, Rainer Gillert, Antje Krause, Gabriele Petznick and Peter Beyerlein1 On the Mutual Information Between Interaction Perplexity and Function of Proteins LECTURE
Herman Sontrop , Ren´e van den Ham , Perry Moerland, Marcel Reinders and Wim Verhaegh A sensitivity analysis of microarray feature selection and classification under measurement noise LECTURE
Christian Schmidt, Carsten Krumbiegel, Katja Waterstradt, Gabriele Petznick, Holger Schafer, Kerstin Schnurr Expectation-Maximization-Estimation of Mixture Densities for Electron-Spin-Resonance-Analysis of Albumin LECTURE
3:00-3:30
Coffee Break
3:30-4:30 University BallRoom CD
Special Session 5: Dynamic Pathway Modeling in Biological Systems: A Crossroad for Drug Discovery and Disease Mechanisms Organizer and Chair: Shipra Agrawal, Institute for Bioinformatics and Applied biotechnology and Nevenka Dimitrova, Philips Research Labs
Sivaraman Balakrishnan, Oznur Tastan, Jaime Carbonell and Judith Klein-Seetharaman COMMUNICATION INTERCEPTION OF HUMAN SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS BY HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS-1 LECTURE
Smita Mohanty and N.Srinivasan HOW EFFECTIVE IS THE DATA ON CO-OCCURRENCE OF DOMAINS IN MULTI-DOMAIN PROTEINS IN PREDICTION OF PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS? LECTURE
Urmi Sengupta1, Sanchaita Ukil, Nevenka Dimitrova2 and Shipra Agrawal Identification of Altered Regulatory Pathways in Diabetes Type II and Complications through Expression Networks LECTURE