DIMACS Workshop on Integration of Diverse Biological Data

June 21 - 22, 2001
DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:

Andrea Califano (co-chair), First Genetic Trust, acalifano@firstgenetic.net

Conrad Gilliam (co-chair), Columbia University, tcg1@columbia.edu

Fred S. Roberts, Rutgers University, froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu

Workshop Program:

8:30 - 9:05	Breakfast and Registration

9:05 - 9:15	Opening Remarks
		Andrea Califano, First Genetic Trust
		Fred Roberts, DIMACS, Rutgers University

9:15 - 10:05	Andrey Rzhetsky, Columbia University
		Unweaving Regulatory Networks: Automated Extraction from Literature and
		Statistical Analysis

10:05 - 10:55	Andrea Califano, First Genetic Trust
		Functional Classification of Protein Families by Top-down Clustering from
		Sequence and Structural Data

10:55 - 11:15 	Break

11:15 - 12:05	Yitzhak Pilpel, Harvard University
		Identifying Regulatory Networks by Combinatorial Analysis of Promoter Elements

12:05 - 1:30	Lunch and informal discussions

1:30 - 2:00	Sven Schuierer, Novartis
		An Integrative Platform for Expression and Sequence Data

2:00 - 2:30	Sylvia Spengler, National Science Foundation
		NSF Funding Availability For Data Integration Efforts

2:30 - 3:20	DIMACS - Celera Genomics/Applied Biosystems Graduate Student Award Presentation
		Winner: Mihaela Pertea, Johns Hopkins University and the Institute for
			Genomic Research
		Award Presenters: Fred S. Roberts, DIMACS Director
				  Liliana Florea, Celera Genomics

		Award lecture by Celera Genomics Winner, Mihaela Pertea
		Gene Finding in Eukaryotes

3:20 - 3:40	Break

3:40 - 4:30	Barbara Eckman, GlaxoSmithKline
		Functional Characterization in the Post-Genomic Era by Means of Declarative Query
		Access to Diverse Data and Applications

4:30 - 5:00	Gary Benson, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
		Cluster Analysis and the Development of a Multi-Genome Database of Tandem Repeats

5:00 - 6:00	Reception at DIMACS

8:30 - 9:00	Breakfast and Registration

9:00 - 9:50	Thomas Deisboeck, Harvard University
		Modeling Tumors as Complex Dynamic BioSystems

9:50 - 10:40	Gustavo Stolovitzky, IBM
		What Can Be "Learned" from Gene Expression Arrays?

10:40 - 11:00	Break

11:00 - 11:50	Mark Gerstein, Yale University
		Integrative Genomics: Surveys of a Finite Parts List

11:50 - 1:20	Lunch and informal discussions

1:20 - 2:10	Raimond L. Winslow, Johns Hopkins University
		A Heart Failure Knowledgebase Combining Experimental Data with Tools for
		Integrative Biological Modeling

2:10 - 2:40	Pedro Moreno, Cambridge Research Laboratory
		A Bayesian Framework for Combining Gene Predictions

2:40 - 3:10	MyungHo Kim, Genomics Collaborative, Inc.
		Application for Support Vector Machine to Detect an Association Between a
		Disease or Trait and Multiple SNP Variations

3:10 - 3:40	Dimitris Agrafiotis, 3-Dimensional Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
		Multidimensional Scaling os Massive Data Sets

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