July - December 1997
Organisers: C M Bishop (Aston), D Haussler (UCSC), G E Hinton (Toronto), M Niranjan (Cambridge), L G Valiant (Harvard)
(Updated 14/10/97)
Organisers: D Haussler (UCSC), R Durbin (Sanger) and C M Bishop (Aston)
Monday 20 October
15.00 - 16.30 Registration
16.30 - 17.00 Tea
17.00 - 18.00 David Haussler (UCSC) Statistical genome analysis: hidden Markov methods
18.00 - 19.00 Wine Reception
Tuesday 21 October
08.30 - 09.20 Registration
09.20 - 10.20 Richard Durbin (Sanger) Pairwise sequence alignment
10.20 - 11.00 Chip Lawrence (Albany, NY) A fully Bayesian approach to biopolymer sequence analysis: sequence alignment illustration
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 - 12.10 Steven Altschul (NCBI) Empirical statistics for the local alignment of simple sequences with position-specific score matrices
12.10 - 12.50 Alan Lapedes (Santa Fe Inst) Correlated mutations in protein sequences: Phylogenetic and structural effects
12.50-15.30 Lunch
15.30 - 16.00 Tea
16.00 - 16.40 Bill Bruno (Los Alamos) Weighted neighbor joining: A fast approximation to ML phylogeny reconstruction
16.40 - 17.20 Graeme Mitchison (Cambridge) Using hidden Markov models for phylogeny
17.20 - 18.00 Nick Goldman (Cambridge) A hidden Markov model for sequence evolution
18.00 - 19.00 Wine Reception
Wednesday 22 October
09.20 - 10.20 Cyrus Chothia (Cambridge) Protein structures, assessing sequence comparisons and genome sequences
10.20 - 11.00 Liisa Holm (EBI) Mapping the protein universe
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 - 12.10 Philipp Bucher (Lausanne) Paradoxes of sequence profiles and hidden Markov models
12.10 - 12.50 Chris Sander (EBI) TBA
12.50-15.30 Lunch
15.30 - 16.00 Tea
16.00 - 16.40 Jun Liu (Stanford) Decoupling the hidden Markov model: strategies for increasing sensitivities
16.40 - 17.20 Pierre Baldi (Caltech) Hidden Markov models in computational molecular biology: from protein families to DNA bending
17.20 - 18.00 Stephen Muggleton (York) Protein binding site analysis using inductive logic programming
18.00 - 19.00 Wine Reception
Thursday 23 October
09.20 - 10.20 Anders Krogh (Denmark) Computational methods for finding genes in human DNA
10.20 - 11.00 Mark Borodovsky (Atlanta) Evolution of GeneMark
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 - 12.10 Victor Solovyev (Sanger) Using statistical characteristics of functional gene regions for gene structure prediction
12.10 - 12.50 Chris Burge (Stanford) TBA
12.50-15.30 Lunch
15.30 - 16.00 Tea
16.00 - 16.40 David Kulp (USCS) & Martin Reese (Berkeley) Integration of neural networks for gene features into a hidden Markov model based genefinder
16.40 - 17.20 Kiyoshi Asai (Tokyo) Toward more flexible use of hidden Markov models in computational biology
17.20 - 18.00 Sean Eddy (St Louis) A computational genetic screen for small nucleolar RNA genes in yeast, using probabilistic models
19.30 - 22.00 Conference Dinner at the University Arms Hotel
Friday 24 October
09.00 - 09.40 Phil Green (Seattle) Heterogeneity of genomic sequence composition
09.40 - 10.20 Mikhail Gelfand (Moscow) Avoidance of palindromes in bacterial genomes: how is it connected with restriction-modification systems
10.20 - 11.00 Gary Stormo (Colorado) Uncovering the regulatory networks in whole genomes
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 - 12.10 N A Kolchanov (Novosibirsk) Computer technology for prediction of functional site activities based on their nucleotide sequences
12.10 - 12.50 Soren Brunak (Denmark) DNA replication and genome organization