DIMACS Workshop and Working Group Meeting on Bioconsensus
October 25 - 26, 2000
DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
- Organizers:
- Mel Janowitz, Rutgers University, melj@dimacs.rutgers.edu
- Francois-Joseph LaPointe, University of Montreal, lapoinf@ere.umontreal.ca
- Fred McMorris, Illinois Institute of Technology, mcmorris@iit.edu
- Boris Mirkin, University of London, mirkin@dcs.bbk.ac.uk
- Fred Roberts, Rutgers University, froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu
Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus
on Computational Molecular Biology.
Workshop Program:
Wednesday, October 25, 2000
8:00am - 8:50am Breakfast and Registration
8:50am - 9:00am Welcome and Greeting:
Melvin Janowitz, DIMAC Associate Director
Session Chair: Melvin Janowitz, Rutgers University
9:00am - 9:50am Francois-Joseph Lapointe, University of Montreal
The Evolution of Consensus in Phylogenetics:
Where Do We Go From Here?
9:50am - 10:40am Bernard Baum, Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Center
Combining trees and combining data
10:40am - 11:10am Coffee Break
Session Chair: Melvin Janowitz, Rutgers University
11:10am - 12:00am Casimir Kulikowski, Rutgers University
Structural Domain Parsing: The Role of Consensus Reasoning
12:00 - 12:15 Discussion of Morning Talks
12:15pm - 1:15pm Lunch
Session Chair: Francois-Joseph Lapointe, University of Montreal
1:15pm - 2:05pm Douglas J. Cork, Illinois Institute of Technology
A New Tool to Help Generate Genomic Consensus--The W-Curve
2:05pm - 2:55pm F.R. McMorris, Illinois Institute of Technology
Compatibility Analysis as a Consensus Method
2:55pm - 3:25pm Coffee Break
Session Chair: Boris Mirkin, Birkbeck College
3:25pm - 4:15pm Melvin F. Janowitz, Rutgers University
Toward a Unified Theory of Relational Representations of
Closed Set Systems and Phylogentic Trees
4:15pm - 4:45pm Discussion of Afternoon Talks
Thursday, October 26, 2000
8:00am - 8:55am Breakfast and Registration
Session Chair: Melvin Janowitz, Rutgers University
8:55am - 9:40am Alan de Queiroz, University of Colorado
Phylogenetic Consensus as a Vote-counting Procedure:
Too Conservative and Too Simple, but Possibly Still Dispensable
9:40am - 10:25am Fred S. Roberts, Rutgers University
Medians and Means as Consensus Methods for Molecular Sequences
10:25am - 10:55am Coffee Break
Session Chair: F.R. McMorris, Illinois Institute of Technology
10:55am - 11:40am Boris Mirkin, Birkbeck College
Combining character and distance analysis for building
inter-genome trees with linear binary hierarchies
11:40am - 11:45am Closing remarks
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