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Date: Sat Sep 23 11:18:03 2006<br />
Subject: 07.01.21 <span class="fancysmall">ECCB - 5th European Conference on Computational Biology, Eilat, Israel</span><br />

<pre>ECCB - 5th European Conference on Computational Biology, Eilat, Israel
January 21-24, 2007 (postponed from Sept. 2006).

<a href="http://www.eccb06.org/" target="_blank">http://www.eccb06.org/</a>

ECCB, the European Conference on Computational Biology, is an annual 
scientific meeting devoted to the latest research in computational biology 
and bioinformatics. The conference is held in a different country each 
year. This year it will be held in Israel, at the Red Sea resort of Eilat.

Workshops/Tutorials
Distributed, High-Performance, and Grid Computing
BioSapiens - Genome Annotation
Discovering and Interpreting Regulatory DNA Sequence Motifs
Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetic Analysis
Immunological Bioinformatics, Epitope Discovery, and Vaccine Design
Gene and Protein Networks

Sunday:
Keynote: Richard Karp
20:30
	Multiple Alignment by Sequence Annealing

Ariel S. Schwartz and Lior Pachter

21:00
	

Tandem Repeats over the Edit Distance

Dina Sokol, Gary Benson and Justin Tojeira

21:30
	Opening reception

Monday, 22 January
08:30
	Registration opens
09:00
	Keynote: Tom Blundell
10:00
	Analysis of Binding Site Similarity, Small Molecule Similarity 
        and Experimental Binding Profiles in the Human Cytosolic 
        Sulfotransferase Family

Rafael J. Najmanovich, Abdellah Allali-Hassani, Richard J. Morris, 
          Ludmila Dombrovsky, Patricia W. Pan, Masoud Vedadi, 
          Alexander N. Plotnikov, Cheryl Arrowsmith, Aled Edwards 
          and Janet M. Thornton

	

Software Demo:
Advanced Micro Devices
10:30
	Electrostatic Potentials of Proteins in Water: A Structured 
        Continuum Approach

Andreas Hildebrandt, Ralf Blossey, Sergej Rjasanow, Oliver Kohlbacher 
and Hans-Peter Lenhof

11:00
	

EBIMed - Text Crunching to Gather Facts for UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot Proteins 
from Medline

Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Harald Kirsch, Miguel Arregui, Sylvain Gaudan, 
Mark Riethoven, Peter Stoehr

	Software Demo:
Large Scale Pedigree Haplotyper (LSPH)
11:30
	Coffee
12:00
	Optimization of Probe Coverage for High-Resolution Oligonucleotide 
aCGH

Doron Lipson, Zohar Yakhini and Yonatan Aumann

	Software Demo:
Grid Computing for Bioinformatics
12:30
	Simultaneous Alignment and Annotation of cis-Regulatory Regions

Abha Singh Bais, Steffen Grossmann and Martin Vingron

13:00
	Genetic Code Symmetry and Efficient Design of GC-Constrained 
Coding Sequences

Matan Gavish, Amnon Peled and Benny Chor

	

13:30
	Discovering Tightly Regulated and Differentially Expressed Gene 
Sets in Whole Genome Expression Data

Chun Ye and Eleazar Eskin

14:00
	Lunch break
15:30
	Biological Network Comparison Using Graphlet Degree Distribution

Natasa Przulj

	Software Demo:
Selecton: A Web Server for the Detection of Site-Specific Positive 
Darwinian Selection and Purifying Selection
16:00
	Identification of Conserved Protein Complexes Based on a Model of 
Protein Network Evolution

Eitan Hirsh and Roded Sharan

16:30
	Phylogenetic Reconstruction from Non-Genomic Data

Jose C. Clemente, Kenji Satou and Gabriel Valiente

	Software Demo:
Text Mining as Web Services Provided from the EBI
17:00
	Similarities and Differences of Gene Expression in Yeast Stress 
Conditions

Oleg Rokhlenko, Ydo Wexler and Zohar Yakhini

17:30
	Efficient Inference on Phylogenetic Trees Using Poisson Regression

Saharon Rosset

	Software Demo:
EVEREST: A Collection of Evolutionary Conserved Protein Domains
18:00
	Coffee
18:30
	Keynote: Naama Barkai
19:30
	Poster session & reception
23:00
	

Tuesday, 23 January
08:30
	Registration opens
09:00
	Keynote: Jeffrey Skolnick
10:00
	Vorolign - Fast Structural Alignment using Voronoi Contacts

Fabian Birzele, Jan Erik Gewehr, Gergely Csaba and Ralf Zimmer

	Software Demo:
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
10:30
	Prediction and Simulation of Motion in Pairs of Transmembrane 
Alpha-Helices

Angela Enosh, Sarel J. Fleishman, Nir Ben-Tal and Dan Halperin

11:00
	Rediscovering Secondary Structures as Network Motifs - 
an Unsupervised Learning Approach

Barak Raveh, Ofer Rahat, Ronen Basri and Gideon Schreiber

	Software Demo:
Blast2GO v2
11:30
	Coffee
12:00
	A Tale of Two Tails: Why are Terminal Residues of Proteins 
Exposed?

Etai Jacob and Ron Unger

	Software Demo:
What's new with ArrayExpress
12:30
	A Novel Pattern Recognition Algorithm to Classify Membrane Protein 
Unfolding Pathways with High-Throughput Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy

Annalisa Marsico, Dirk Labudde, Tanuj Sapra, Daniel Mueller and Michael 
Schroeder

13:00
	Using an Alignment of Fragment Strings for Comparing Protein 
Structures

Iddo Friedberg, Tim Harder, Rachel Kolodny, Einat Sitbon, Zhanwen Li and 
Adam Godzik

	

13:30
	ISIS: Interaction Sites Identified from Sequence

Yanay Ofran and Burkhard Rost

14:00
	Lunch break
15:30
	Incremental Window-Based Protein Sequence Alignment Algorithms

Huzefa Rangwala and George Karypis

	Software Demo:
CFinder: Locating Cliques and Overlapping Modules in Biological Networks
16:00
	Designing Patterns for Profile HMM Search

Yanni Sun and Jeremy Buhler

16:30
	Simulating Multiplexed SNP Discovery Rates using Base-Specific 
Cleavage and Mass Spectrometry

Sebastian Bcker

	Software Demo:
SABIO-RK (System for the Analysis of Biochemical Pathways - Reaction 
Kinetics)
17:00
	Learning Probabilistic Models of cis-Regulatory Modules that 
Represent Logical and Spatial Aspects

Keith Noto and Mark Craven

17:30
	Festive dinner
23:00
	

Wednesday, 24 January
08:30
	Registration opens
09:00
	Keynote: Marc Vidal
10:00
	TOPP - The OpenMS Proteomics Pipeline

Oliver Kohlbacher, Knut Reinert, Clemens Grpl, Eva Lange, Nico Pfeifer, 
Ole Schulz-Trieglaff and Marc Sturm

	Software Demo:
The SimpAT Package: Integrating SIMAP into its own Applications
10:30
	Difference Detection in LC-MS Data for Protein Biomarker 
Discovery

Jennifer Listgarten, Radford M. Neal, Sam T. Roweis, Peter Wong and 
Andrew Emili

11:00
	Identifying HLA Supertypes by Learning Distance Functions

Tomer Hertz and Chen Yanover

	Software Demo:
COLOMBO/SIGI-HMM: Prediction of Genomic Islands in Procaryotic Genomes 
Using HMMs
11:30
	Coffee
12:00
	A Comparative Genome Approach to Marker Ordering

Thomas Faraut, Simon de Givry, Patrick Chabrier, Thomas Derrien, 
Francis Galibert, Christophe Hitte and Thomas Schiex

	Software Demo:
The Scriptome: Protocols for Manipulating Biological Data
12:30
	Family Relationships: Should Consensus Reign?

Macha Nikolski and David James Sherman

13:00
	Merging Microarray Cell Synchronization Experiments through 
Curve Alignment

Filip Hermans and Elena Tsiporkova

	

13:30
	A Supervised Approach for Identifying Discriminating Genotype 
Patterns and its Application to Breast Cancer Data

Nir Yosef, Zohar Yakhini, Anya Tsalenko, Eytan Ruppin and Roded Sharan

14:00
	Lunch break
15:30
	Inferring Phylogeny from Whole Genomes

Pawel Gorecki and Jerzy Tiuryn

	Software Demo:
DeltaProt: Molecular Comparison of Proteins based on Sequence Alignments
16:00
	Using Median Sets for Inferring Phylogenetic Trees

Bernt Matthias, Merkle Daniel and Middendorf Martin

16:30
	Efficient Parsimony-Based Methods for Phylogenetic Network 
Reconstruction

Guohua Jin, Luay Nakhleh, Sagi Snir and Tamir Tuller

	Software Demo:
CoryneRegNet:
An Integrative Bioinformatics Platform for the Analysis of Transcription 
Factors and Regulatory Networks
17:00
	Phylogeny Reconstruction: Increasing the Accuracy of Pairwise 
Distance Estimation Using Bayesian Inference of Evolutionary Rates

Matan Ninio, Eyal Privman, Tal Pupko and Nir Friedman

17:30
	Coffee
18:00
	Keynote: Martin Vingron
19:00
	Closing ceremony & awards</pre>
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