BREW 2008

Bioinformatics Research and Education Workshop, Bielefeld, Germany April 28-30 2008

Program

Monday April 28

09:00 - 09:15Welcome
09:15 - 09:40Sandra NiemeierSynthetic primary microRNAs as an effective means to create stabile and highly specific knockdown mutatns of plant genes in Arabidopsis thaliana
09:40 - 10:05Stefanie SchirmerTree alignment of RNA secondary structures with affine gap costs
10:05 - 10:30Jukka KohonenMethods for incomplete hierarchical classification in the gene ontology
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:25Stefan BoernerGene duplication and multiple reactive site loop exon cassettes - evolutionary adaptation mechanisms of serpins
11:25 - 11:50Sebastian BurgemeisterCell detection and viability classification of animal cell cultures using dark field micrographs
11:50 - 12:30Prof. Dr. Robert Giegerich (invited speaker)Dynamic programming - the cool way
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:25Abhishek TripathiLinear data fusion based on caninical correlation analysis
14:25 - 14:50Jussi KollinCoalescent simulation of inversion polymorphisms
14:50 - 15:15Georg SauthoffTable design in dynamic programming
15:15 - 15:40Bjoern SommerCELLmicrocosmos 2.1: A software approach for the visualization of three-dimensional PDB membranes
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:25Settu SridharPhylogenomics: A mini-review of tools to improve protein function annotation
16:25 - 16:50Rosa KarlicPost-translational histone modifications as a predictor of transcription patterns
16:50 - 17:25Swati PrasadEvaluating the Sanger and TIGR annotations for Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv and comparative genomics of completely sequenced Mycobacterial genomes
17:25 - 18:00Prof. Dr. Bernd Weisshaar (invited speaker)
19:00 - open endDinnerConference Dinner at Brauhaus

Tuesday April 29

9:00 - 9:25Crispin MutshindaA bayesian methodology for identifying and quantifying relevant mechanisms in community dynamics
9:25 - 9:50Pekka ParviainenA bayesian decision tree method for locating disease genes
9:50 - 10:15Nils HoffmannOn dynamic time warping for time series alignment in gas-chromatography mass-spectrometry
10:15 - 10:40Wolfgang GerlachTaxonomical and Functional Characterization of Ultra-Short Reads from Microbial Metagenomes using the q-Gram Index
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:25Markus HeinonenFiD: new software for de novo identification of metabolite fragments from tandem mass spectrometry data
11:25 - 11:50Ilkka HuopaniemiExploring disease-related dependencies between metabolic profiles of several tissues
11:50 - 12:30Prof. Dr. Jens Stoye (invited speaker)Computational aspects in gene order studies
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:25Paz PolakSubstitution patterns associated with transcription vary across taxa
14:25 - 14:50Akdes SerinProbabilistic approach for inferring regulatory networks
14:50 - 15:15Animesh SharmaComparing the performance of various assemblers on a genome partially sequenced with 454 pyrosequencing
Coffee break
15:30 - 15:55Matti PirinenIncorporating biological prior information into the haplotyping problem: the PHASE algorithm
15:55 - 16:20Xuan Hung TaSynchronization phenomena in scale-free networks with the Kuramoto model
16:20 - 17:00Discussion
17:00 - 19:30Social activitySparrenexpress