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International Workshop
Integrative Bioinformatics
3rd annual meeting
4th to 6th September 2006
Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.

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FINAL PROGRAMME
 
  Monday 4th September 2006
  11:30   Registration desk opens
  12:30   Lunch (buffet style)
  13:10   Welcome followed by some administrivia
Jacob Koehler
    Session 1
Database Integration and Integrative Databases
    Chairman: Ralf Hofestaedt
  13:20
keynote
  Semantic Integration, SRS and the Meaning of Life (Sciences)
Steve Gardner (Biowisdom, UK)
 
  14:00   CoryneRegNet 2: An Integrative Bioinformatics Approach for Reconstruction and Comparison of Transcriptional Regulatory Networks in Prokaryotes 
Jan Baumbach, Karina Brinkrolf, Tobias Wittkop, Andreas Tauch and Sven Rahmann 
  14:25   Analysing Microarray Data using the Multi-functional Immune Ontologiser 
Sabah Khalid, Karl Fraser, Mohsin Khan, Ping Wang, Xiaohui Liu and Suling Li 
  14:50   The BioRS(TM) Integration and Retrieval System: An open system for distributed data integration 
Andreas Kaps, Konstantin Dyshlevoi, Klaus Heumann, Ralf Jost, Ioannis Kontodinas, Martin Wolff and Jean Hani 
  15:15   Integration of Protein and Protein-Protein Interaction Data: Feasibility Report using Microsoft .NET 
Wolfgang Straßer, Doris Siegl, Kamil Önder and Johann Bauer 
  15:40   Coffee break
    Chairman: David Wild
  16:00   BN++ - A Biological Information System 
Jan Küntzer, Torsten Blum, Andreas Gerasch, Christina Backes, Andreas Hildebrandt, Michael Kaufmann, Oliver Kohlbacher and Hans-Peter Lenhof 
  16:25   MILAN - A medical information-system linking agents to metabolic networks 
B. Prins and R. Hofestädt 
  16:50   Data Cleaning and Semantic Improvement in Biological Databases 
Daniele Apiletti, Giulia Bruno, Elisa Ficarra and Elena Baralis (presented by Giulia Bruno) 
  17:15   Drinks and Poster Session
  18:45   Coach to Holiday Inn Hotel
 
  Tuesday 5th September 2006
  09:30   Coach from Holiday Inn Hotel
    Session 2
Integrative Systems Biology - Modelling and Simulation
    Chairman: Joachim Selbig
  10:00
keynote
  Top-down Modeling of Biochemical Networks, a Grand Challenge of Systems Biology
Pedro Mendes (Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, USA)
  10:40   BASIS: an internet resource for network modelling 
Colin S. Gillespie, Darren J. Wilkinson, Daryl P. Shanley, Carole J. Proctor, Richard J. Boys and Thomas B.L. Kirkwood 
  11:05   Coffee break
    Chairman: Paul Verrier
  11:20   The implications for Bioinformatics of integration across physical scales 
T.C. Hodgman, Y. Ugartechea-Chirino, G. Tansley and I. Dryden 
  11:45   A Graphical Notation to Describe the Logical Interactions of Biological Pathways 
Stuart L. Moodie, Anatoly Sorokin, Igor Groyanin and Peter Ghazal 
  12:10   Exact and Approximate Stochastic Simulations of the MAPK Pathway and Comparisons of Simulations’ Results 
Vilda Purutcuoglu and Ernst Wit 
  12:35   Lunch (buffet style)
    Session 3
Integrative Systems Biology - Networks
    Chairman: Klaus Prank
  13:30
keynote
  BioComputing@Biopolis - Opening New Frontiers at the Interface of Computing, Biology and Medicine
Gunaretnam Rajagopal (Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore) 
  14:10   Statistical Embedding in Complex Biosystems 
Enrico Capobianco
  14:35   An assessment of machine and statistical learning approaches to inferring networks of protein-protein interactions 
Fiona Browne, Haiying Wang, Huiru Zheng and Francisco Azuaje (presented by Browne, F.) 
  14:50   Multi-model inference of network properties from incomplete data 
Michael P.H. Stumpf and Thomas Thorne
  15:15   Coffee break
    Session 4
Data Analysis and Interpretation - Transcriptomics
    Chairman: Sue Wilson
  15:45   Co-expressed gene groups analysis (CGGA): An automatic tool for the interpretation of microarray experiments 
Ricardo Martinez, Nicolas Pasquier, Claude Pasquier, Martine Collard and Lucero Lopez-Perez 
  16:10   Combining biomedical knowledge and transcriptomic data to extract new knowledge on genes 
Emilie Guérin Gwenaëlle Marquet, Julie Chabalier, Marie-Bérengère Troadec, Christiane Guguen-Guillouzo, Olivier Loréal, Anita Burgun and Fouzia Moussouni(presenter) 
  16:35   Inference of Gene Coexpression Networks by Integrative Analysis across Microarray Experiments 
Laura L. Elo, Riitta Lahesmaa and Tero Aittokallio 
  17:00   Modelling Microarray Data: Interpreting and communicating the biological results 
Y.E. Pittelkow and S.R.Wilson 
  17:25   Targeted Projection Pursuit Tool for Gene Expression Visualisation 
Joe Faith and Michael Brockway  + 
  17:50   Poster session and Bar opens
  19:00   Coach to Holiday Inn Hotel (if not staying for dinner)
  19:30   Conference dinner
  22:00   Coach to Holiday Inn Hotel
 
  Wednesday 6th September 2006
  09:30   Coach from Holiday Inn Hotel
    Session 5
Data Analysis and Interpretation
    Chairman: Uwe Scholz
  10:00
keynote
  Services, Semantics and Workflows in eScience
Tom Oinn (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK)  + 
  10:40   Metabolite profiles as a reflection of physiological status - a methodological validation 
Matthias Steinfath, Dirk Repsilber, Manuela Hische, Nicolas Schauer, Alisdair R. Fernie and Joachim Selbig
  11:05   A First Step towards Learning which uORFs Regulate Gene Expression 
Selpi, Christopher H. Bryant, Graham J.L. Kemp and Marija Cvijovic 
  11:30   Coffee break
    Chairman: Peter Rice
  11:50   Prediction of transcription factor binding to DNA using rule induction methods 
Mikael Huss and Karin Nordström  + 
  12:15   Functional diversity within protein superfamilies 
James Casbon and Mansoor Saqi
  12:40   Closing remarks
  12:50   Lunch (buffet style)
Depart
 
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