The 3rd Canadian Working Conference on Computational Biology (CCCB'04)
Hilton Suites; Primrose room
October 4, 2004
Co-located with IBM CASCON conference
October 4-7
Co-sponsored by IRIS-funded GEP project and IBM CAS
Organized by I. Jurisica, J. Glasgow, R. Ng, H. Hoos
Theme: Integrative Computational Biology
Essential to many bioinformatics applications is the need to integrate and analyze data from multiple sources. For example, we can increase our understanding of disease origin and progression by integrating existing large-scale genomic/proteomic data sets. Moreover, insight can be gained by systematically analyzing integrated protein-protein interaction networks and microarray data sets.
No single database or algorithm will be successful at solving the complex analytical problems in bioinformatics. Thus, we need to integrate different tools and approaches, multiple sources of single type of data, and diverse data types. Along with this integration, we need to further develop tools for the management and analysis of the resulting, underlying datasets. Although clustering algorithms have proven useful in the analysis of biomedical data, as more heterogeneous parameters are added (e.g., clinical outcome, genotype), more sophisticated algorithms are required to aid in integration, visualization and interpretation.
Submissions Closed.
We invite both original submissions and position papers related to data integration and analysis for CCCB'04. Posters and demo displays to be presented during the IBM CASCON conference are also encouraged.
Submitted papers should be 4-6 pages in length in PDF format, and will be reviewed by the organizing committee. Authors of accepted papers will be given 20 minutes to present their work.
Partial travel fellowships are available for student authors of accepted papers. Please inform us at the time of submission if you would like to be considered eligible for such an award.
Accepted papers will be published in an IBM Technical report, which will also include abstracts for posters and demo displays. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue of the ISF journal.
Sep 6 (Mon) - submission deadline
Sep 20 (Mon) - notification of acceptance
Sep 24 (Fri) - submission deadline for revised versions
Registration
All attendees must register for the workshop on IBM CASCON web site (registration is free of charge).
Tentative Program
October 4
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8:00-8:45 |
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Continental breakfast (Primrose room) |
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8:45-9:00 |
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Introduction |
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9:00-10:00 |
Francis Ouellette - Invited speaker |
Atlas - a data warehouse for integrative bioinformatics |
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10:00-10:30 |
Christopher J. O. Baker and RenŽe Witte |
Enriching protein structure visualizations with mutation annotations obtained by text mining protein engineering literature |
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10:30-10:45 |
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Coffee break |
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10:45-11:15 |
Max Kotlyar and Igor Jurisica |
Predicting protein-protein interactions by association mining |
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11:15-11:45 |
Pingzhao Hu, Celia Greenwood and Joseph Beyene |
Quality-adjusted modeling of inter-study variation in gene expression profiles |
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12:00-13:00 |
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Lunch |
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13:00-14:00 |
Michael Hallett - Invited speaker |
Tools
for exploring regulation and expression |
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14:00-14:30 |
Huiming Ding, Charles Boone |
Computational platform for large scale data analysis of genetic array based experiments |
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14:30-15:00 |
Junjun Zhang, Gavin E. Duggan, Razi Khaja and Stephen W. Scherer |
Generalized biological database platform based on cross-referenced tables (XRT) |
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15:00:15:30 |
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Discussion |
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15:30-15:45 |
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Coffee break |
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15:45-17:00 |
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Panel on Standards and open source toolboxes - enablers or hinderers |
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17:30 |
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Dinner |
October 5-7
Poster sessions at CASCON
Demo displays at CASCON