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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/
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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
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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
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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