AlCoB 2019: call for participation*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************************** 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AlCoB 2019 Berkeley, California, USA May 28-30, 2019 Co-organized by: University of California, Berkeley Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London http://alcob2019.irdta.eu/ ********************************************************************************** PROGRAM Tuesday, May 28 09:00 - 09:30    Registration 09:30 - 09:40    Opening 09:40 - 10:30    Igor Jurisica. Explanable AI for Data-driven Medicine - Invited lecture 10:30 - 10:45    Break 10:45 - 12:00 Tom Davot, Annie Chateau, Rodolphe Giroudeau and Mathias Weller. New Polynomial-time Algorithm around the Scaffolding Problem Ozan Kahramanogullari. Enumerating Dominant Pathways in Biological Networks by Information Flow Analysis Sridevi Maharaj, Zarin Ohiba and Wayne Hayes. Comparing Different Graphlet Measures for Evaluating Network Model Fits to BioGRID PPI Networks 12:00 - 13:30    Lunch 13:30 - 14:20    Lior Pachter. Algorithms for Single-cell Genomics - Invited lecture 14:20 - 14:35    Break 14:35 - 15:50 Louis Petingi and Tamar Schlick. Graph-theoretic Partitioning of RNAs and Classification of Pseudoknots Alexander Shlemov and Anton Korobeynikov. PathRacer: Racing Profile HMM Paths on Assembly Graph Pavel Avdeyev, Maria Atamanova, and Max A. Alekseyev. A Uniform Theory of Adequate Subgraphs for the Genome Median, Halving, and Aliquoting Problems 15:50 - 17:00    Poster session I --- Wednesday, May 29 09:30 - 10:20    Pavel A. Pevzner. Bioinformatics: A Servant or the Queen of Molecular Biology? - Invited lecture 10:20 - 10:35    Break 10:35 - 11:50 Veronica Guerrini and Giovanna Rosone. Lightweight Metagenomic Classification via eBWT Christopher Wright, Sriram Krishnamoorty and Milind Kulkarni. MULKSG: MULtiple K Simultaneous Graph Assembly João Paulo Pereira Zanetti, Leonid Chindelevitch and João Meidanis. Counting Sorting Scenarios and Intermediate Genomes for the Rank Distance 11:50 - 13:20    Group photo and Lunch 13:20 - 14:10    Teresa Przytycka. Exploring Phenotypic Heterogeneity across Tissues and Conditions with Network-based Approaches - Invited lecture 14:10 - 14:25    Break 14:25 - 15:40     João Paulo Pereira Zanetti, Leonid Chindelevitch and João Meidanis. Generalizations of the Genomic Rank Distance to Indels Thien Le, Aaron Sy, Erin K. Molloy, Qiuyi (Richard) Zhang, Satish Rao and Tandy Warnow. Using INC within Divide-and-Conquer Phylogeny Estimation Alona Levy-Jurgenson, Xavier Tekpli, Vessela N. Kristensen and Zohar Yakhini. Predicting Methylation from Sequence and Gene Expression Using Deep Learning with Attention 15:40 - 16:50    Poster session II 17:00        Walk around the campus --- Thursday, May 30 09:30 - 10:20    Tandy Warnow. Advances in Mathematical Approaches to Constructing the Tree of Life - Invited lecture 10:20 - 10:35    Break 10:35 - 11:50 Kari Nousiainen, Jukka Intosalmi and Harri Lähdesmäki. A Mathematical Model for Enhancer Activation Kinetics during Cell Differentiation Atif Rahman and Lior Pachter. Transcript Abundance Estimation and the Laminar Packing Problem Peng Xiao, Xingyu Cai and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran. Efficient Algorithms for Finding Edit-distance Based Motifs 11:50 - 12:00    Closing 12:00    Lunch