CIBCB 2009 Program

Session CIBCB-1: Keynote Lecture

Monday, March 30, 9:30AM-10:30AM, Room: Hermitage D, Chair: Kay C. Wiese, Simon Fraser University, Canada

9:30AM   Bringing Biological Models to Life: The Power of Agent-based Modeling and Visualization
Christian Jacob
University of Calgary, Canada

Session CIBCB-2: NIH Invited Special Session and Panel

Monday, March 30, 11:00AM-1:00PM, Room: Hermitage D, Chair: Gary Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc., USA

11:00AM   CyberInfrastructure and Computational Intelligence: Recent Experience and Current Activities at NSF in Fostering Transformative Cyber-Enabled Research
Fahmida Chowdhury and Edward Seidel
National Science Foundation, United States
11:30AM   Transforming Behavioral Medicine: Cyberinfrastructure in Cancer Prevention and Control
Abdul R. Shaikh and Bradford W. Hesse
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, United States
12:00PM   A Role for Systems Science Methodologies in Addressing Complexity in Population Health
Patricia L. Mabry and Stephane Philogene
National Institutes of Health, United States
12:30PM   NIH and BBTC Panel and Open Discussion
Gary Fogel and Fahmida Chowdhury
NSI, United States; NSF, United States

Session CIBCB-3: AI and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics 1

Monday, March 30, 2:00PM-4:00PM, Room: Hermitage D, Chair: Gary Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc., USA

2:00PM   rnaDesign: Local Search for RNA Secondary Structure Design [#6069]
Denny C. Dai, Herbert H. Tsang and Kay C. Wiese
Simon Fraser University, Canada
2:24PM   SARNA-Ensemble-Predict: The Effect of Different Dissimilarity Metrics on a Novel Ensemble-based RNA Secondary Structure Prediction Algorithm [#6063]
Herbert H. Tsang and Kay C. Wiese
Simon Fraser University, Canada
2:48PM   Performance Prediction for RNA Design Using Parametric and Non-Parametric Regression Model [#6012]
Denny C. Dai and Kay C. Wiese
Simon Fraser University, Canada
3:12PM   An Approach for RNA Secondary Structure Prediction Based on Bayesian Network [#6033]
Tianhua Wu, Zhidong Deng and Dandan Song
Tsinghua University, China

Session CIBCB-4: Sequence and Phylogenetic Analysis

Monday, March 30, 4:30PM-6:30PM, Room: Hermitage D, Chair: Gwenn Volkert, Kent State University, USA

4:30PM   Haplotype Inference Using A Genetic Algorithm [#6026]
Dongsheng Che, Haibao Tang and Yinglei Song
East Stroudsburg University, United States; University of Georgia, United States; University of Maryland Eastern Shore, United States
4:54PM   DNA Error Correcting Codes: No Crossover. [#6015]
Daniel Ashlock and Sheridan Houghten
University of Geulph, Canada; Brock University, Canada
5:18PM   Detecting Sequence and Structure Homology via an Integrative Kernel: A Case-Study in Recognizing Enzymes [#6018]
Isye Arieshanti, Mikael Boden, Stefan Maetschke and Fabian Buske
The University of Queensland, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Australia
5:42PM   A Novel LDA and PCA-based Hierarchical Scheme for Metagenome Fragment Binning [#6074]
Hao Zheng and Hongwei Wu
Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
6:06PM   Using Diffusion Characters for the Taxonomy of Self-Organizing Social Networks [#6032]
Daniel Ashlock and Colin Lee
University of Geulph, Canada; University of Guelph, Canada

Session CIBCB-5: Protein and RNA Structure Prediction, Folding and Docking

Tuesday, March 31, 8:30AM-10:30AM, Room: Hermitage D, Chair: Kay C. Wiese, Simon Fraser University, Canada

8:30AM   Improved Prediction of Trans-Membrane Spans in Proteins using an Artificial Neural Network [#6052]
Julia Koehler, Ralf Mueller and Jens Meiler
Vanderbilt University, United States
8:54AM   Protein Fold Recognition with Adaptive Local Hyperplane Algorithm [#6006]
Vojislav Kecman and Tao Yang
The Virginia Commonwealth University, United States; The University of Auckland, New Zealand
9:18AM   Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Using Rule Induction from Coverings [#6039]
Leong Lee, Jennifer L. Leopold, Ronald L. Frank and Anne M. Maglia
Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States
9:42AM   Bioinformatics: Implementation of a proposed upgraded Smith-Waterman Algorithm for local alignment [#6013]
Md. Shihabuddin Sadi, Abu Zafar Mohammad Sami, Imtiaz Uddin Ahmed, Abdullahil Baki Md. Ruhunnabi and Nirmalendu Das
Shah Jalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh

Session CIBCB-6: AI and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics 2

Tuesday, March 31, 11:00AM-1:00PM, Room: Hermitage D, Chair: Kay C. Wiese, Simon Fraser University, Canada

11:00AM   Diagnostic Character Location within the Cryptic Skipper Butterfly Species Complex with an Evolutionary Algorithm [#6056]
Daniel Ashlock and Taika von Konigslow
University of Geulph, Canada
11:24AM   A Method for Improving Protein Localization Prediction from Datasets with Outliers [#6022]
Jiang Tian, Hong Gu and WenQi Liu
Dalian University of Technology, China
11:48AM   A Framework for the Application of Decision Trees to the Analysis of SNPs Data [#6048]
Linda Fiaschi, Jon Garibaldi and Natalio Krasnogor
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
12:12PM   Predicting Protein Subcellular Locations for Gram-Negative Bacteria Using Neural Networks Ensemble [#6076]
Junwei Ma, WenQi Liu and Hong Gu
Dalian University of Technology, China

Session CIBCB-7: AI and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics 3

Tuesday, March 31, 2:00PM-4:00PM, Room: Hermitage D, Chair: Kay C. Wiese, Simon Fraser University, Canada

2:00PM   A System for Recognition of Biological Patterns in Toxins Using Computational Intelligence [#6050]
Bernardo Carvalho, Thais Mendes, Ricardo Ribeiro, Ricardo Fortuna, Jose Veneroso and Mauricio Mudado
ABG Information Systems, Brazil; Fundacao Ezequiel Dias, Brazil
2:24PM   Comparison of Feature Selection Techniques for Viral DNA Replication Origins Prediction [#6064]
Raul Cruz-Cano and Ming-Ying Leung
Texas A and M University - Texarkana, United States; The University of Texas at El Paso, United States
2:48PM   Predicting Protein-Protein Interactions using Numerical Associational Features [#6070]
Waleed Aljandal, William Hsu and Jing Xia
kansas State University, United States

Session CIBCB-8: Gene Finding and Microarray Analysis 1

Tuesday, March 31, 4:30PM-6:30PM, Room: Hermitage D, Chair: Wendy Ashlock, University of Geulph, Canada

4:30PM   Simulation of the Impact of Retroviruses on Genome Organization of an Artificial Organism [#6041]
Daniel Ashlock and Wendy Ashlock
University of Geulph, Canada; York University, Canada
4:54PM   A Simple Algorithm for (l, d) Motif Search [#6062]
Dolly Sharma and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran
University of Connecticut, United States
5:18PM   Degenerate Primer Selection Algorithms [#6061]
Dolly Sharma, Sudha Balla, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran and Nikoletta DiGirolamo
University of Connecticut, United States; 2Sloan-Kettering Institute, United States; Hunter College, United States
5:42PM   An Automatic Gene Ontology Software Tool for Bicluster and Cluster Comparisons [#6073]
Fadhl Al-Akwaa and Yasser Kadah
University of Science and Technology, Yemen; Cairo University and Nile University, Egypt

Session CIBCB-9: Gene Finding and Microarray Analysis 2

Wednesday, April 1, 8:30AM-10:30AM, Room: Hermitage D, Chair: Jennifer Hallinan, Newcastle University, UK

8:30AM   A Multi-Threaded DNA Tag/Anti-tag Library Generator for Multi-Core Platforms [#6051]
Arun Ravindran and Daniel Burns
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States; Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, NY, United States
8:54AM   The Analysis of Microarray Datasets Using a Genetic Programming [#6028]
Chun-Gui Xu, Kun-Hong Liu, Jie Gui and De-Shuang Huang
Intelligent Computing Lab, Hefei Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Software Department, Xiamen University, China
9:18AM   Steady-state Analysis of Genetic Regulatory Networks Modeled by Nonlinear Ordinary Differential Equations [#6036]
Haixin Wang, Lijun Qian and Edward Dougherty
Fort Valley State Univeristy, United States; Prairie View AM University, United States; Translational Genomics Research Institute, United States
9:42AM   Goal Driven Analysis of cDNA Microarray Data [#6025]
Youlian Pan, Jitao Zou, Yi Huang, Ziying Liu and Sieu Phan
National Research Council Canada, Canada

Session CIBCB-10: Analysis of Very Large Biological Data Sets 1

Wednesday, April 1, 11:00AM-1:00PM, Room: Hermitage D, Chair: Daniel Ashlock, University of Guelph, Canada

11:00AM   Fuzzy Rule Base Classifier Fusion for Protein Mass Spectra Based Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis [#6079]
Amin Assareh and L. Gwenn Volkert
Kent State Universtiy, United States; Kent State University, United States
11:24AM   Assessing the Impact of Network Depth on the Analysis of PPI Networks: A Case Study [#6046]
Jaine Blayney, Haiying Wang, Huiru Zheng and Francisco Azuaje
University of Ulster, Northern Ireland; Public Research Centre for Health, Luxembourg
11:48AM   Nerve Graft Selection for Peripheral Nerve Regeneration using Neural Networks Trained by a Hybrid ACO/PSO Method [#6009]
Matthew Conforth, Yan Meng, Chandra Valmikinathan and Xiaojun Yu
Stevens Institute of Technology, United States
12:12PM   An Assignment Walk through 3D NMR Spectrum [#6040]
Marta Szachniuk, Mariusz Popenda, Ryszard Adamiak and Jacek Blazewicz
Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland; Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
12:36PM   An Application of the Metric Access Methods to the Mass Spectrometry Data [#6005]
Jiri Novak and David Hoksza
Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Session CIBCB-11: Analysis of Very Large Biological Data Sets 2

Wednesday, April 1, 2:00PM-4:00PM, Room: Hermitage D, Chair: Anil Wipat, Newcastle University, Canada

2:00PM   Clustering Incorporating Shortest Paths Identifies Relevant Modules in Functional Interaction Networks [#6071]
Jennifer Hallinan, Matthew Pocock, Steven Addinall, David Lydall and Anil Wipat
Newcastle University, United Kingdom
2:24PM   Modeling oncology gene pathways network with multiple genotypes and phenotypes via a copula method [#6019]
Le Bao, Zhou Zhu and Jingjing Ye
Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, United States; Pfizer Global Research and Development, Pfizer Inc., United States
2:48PM   Fast Algorithms for Detecting Overlapping Functional Modules in PPI Networks [#6007]
Peng gang Sun and Lin Gao
Xidian University, China
3:12PM   Application of Machine Learning Approaches on Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships [#6067]
Mariusz Butkiewicz, Ralf Mueller, Danilo Selic, Eric Dawson and Jens Meiler
Vanderbilt University, United States
3:36PM   DDPIn - Distance and Density Based Protein Indexing [#6030]
David Hoksza
Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Session CIBCB-12: Medical Imaging

Wednesday, April 1, 4:30PM-6:30PM, Room: Hermitage D, Chair: Daniel Ashlock, University of Guelph, Canada

4:30PM   Knee MR Image Segmentation Combining Contextual Constrained Neural Network and Level Set Evolution [#6047]
Lan Haw-Chang, Chang Tsai-Rong, Liao Wen-Ching, Chung Yi-Nung and Chung Pau-Choo
Dept. of Radiology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan; Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, South Taiwan University, Taiwan; Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung
University, Taiwan; Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Changhua
University of Education, Taiwan
4:54PM   Emotion Recognition with Consideration of Facial Expressions and Physiological Signals [#6044]
Chuan-Yu Chang, Jeng-Shiun Tsai, Chi-Jane Wang and Pau-Choo Chung
National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan; National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
5:18PM   Statistical Comparison of Color Model Classifier Pairs in Hematoxylin and Eosin Stained Histological Images [#6058]
Mutlu Mete and Umit Topaloglu
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, United States
5:42PM   Shape Modeling and Clustering of White Matter Fiber Tracts Using Fourier Descriptors [#6023]
Xuwei Liang, Qi Zhuang, Ning Cao and Jun Zhang
University of Kentucky, United States
6:06PM   Data Synthesis and Tool Development for Exploring Imaging Genomic Patterns [#6068]
Sungeun Kim, Li Shen, Andrew Saykin and John West
Indiana University, United States

IEEE SSCI 2009     March 30 – April 2, 2009     Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville, TN, USA