2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

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Submission:
  Oct 31, 2006
Notification:
  Nov 30, 2006
Camera-ready due:
  Jan 15, 2007
Conference:
  April 1-5 2007

1. Bioinformatics Basics
2. Chemoinformatics
3. Signal and Motif Detection

General Co-Chairs:
Gwenn Volkert - USA
David Corne - Europe
Jagath Rajapaske - Asia
Technical Co-Chairs:
Gary B. Fogel
Scott Smith
Kay C. Wiese
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Clare Bates-Congdon - USA
Joshua Knowles - UK
P.N. Suganthan - Asia
Elena Marchiori - Europe
German Hernandez - South & Central American
Madhu Chetty - Australia
Proceedings Chair:
Jennifer Hallinan
Student Grants Chair:
Slawo Wesolkowski
Web Chair:
Wendy Ashlock

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CIBCB 2007 Program

Special Lecture KEY: Keynote - Pierre Baldi - Chemoinformatics, Machine Learning, and Drug Discovery
Monday, April 2, 8:00AM-9:00AM, Room: South Pacific Ballroom, Speaker: L. Gwenn Volkert

Session AM1-M: Genetics
Monday, April 2, 9:00AM-10:00AM, Room: South Pacific Ballroom, Chair: L. Gwenn Volkert

9:00AM  Linkage Disequilibrium in Genetic Association Studies Improves the Performance of Grammatical Evolution Neural Networks [#80]
Alison Motsinger, David Reif, Theresa Fanelli, Anna Davis and Marylyn Ritchie
Vanderbilt University, United States; Environmental Protection Agency, United States; Vanderbilt Univerisity, United States
9:30AM  Novel Data Mining Techniques in aCGH based Breast Cancer Subtypes Profiling: the Biological Perspective [#49]
Filippo Menolascina, Stefania Tommasi, Angelo Paradiso, Marco Cortellino and Vitoantonio Bevilacqua
National Cancer Institute, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy; National Cancer Institute, Italy; Polytechnic of Bari, Italy

Session AM2-M: Gene expression & Microarrays
Monday, April 2, 10:15AM-12:15PM, Room: South Pacific Ballroom, Chair: Gary Fogel

10:15AM  Associative Artificial Neural Network for Discovery of Highly Correlated Gene Groups Based on Gene Ontology and Gene Expression [#78]
Ji He, Xinbin Dai and Xuechun Zhao
Samuel Robers Noble Foundation, United States; Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, United States
10:45AM  Evolutionary Parameter Setting of Multi-clustering [#26]
Daniel Ashlock and Ling Guo
University of Guelph, Canada; Iowa State University, United States
11:15AM  Boosting Evolutionary Support Vector Machine for Designing Tumor Classifiers from Microarray Data [#67]
Hui-Ling Huang, Yi-Hsiung Chen, Dwight D. Koeberl and Shinn-Ying Ho
Department of Information Management, Jin Wen In, Taiwan; Institute of Bioinformatics, National Chiao Tun, Taiwan; Duke University Medical School, Durham, NC, United States; Department of Biological Science and Technology,, Taiwan
11:45AM  Two-way Clustering using Fuzzy ASI for Knowledge Discovery in Microarrays [#14]
Jahangheer Shaik and Mohammed Yeasin
University of Memphis, United States

Session PM1-M: Special Session 1 - Biomedical Engineering - Part 1
Monday, April 2, 1:15PM-3:15PM, Room: South Pacific Ballroom, Chair: Julia Chung and D.J. Lee

1:15PM  Cluster Methodology Defines Archetype Sentinel Consomic Rats [#29]
Nancy Sobczak, George Corliss, Martin Seitz and Peter Tonellato
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, United States; Medical College of WI, Marquette University, United States
1:45PM  Combining Neural Network and Wavelet Transform for Trigger Asynchrony Detection [#112]
Lan Chang, Pau-Choo Chung and Chang-Wen Chen
Institute of CCE, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan; T.I.M Dept., National Cheng-Kung Univ. Hospital, Taiwan
2:15PM  Predicting Tumor Malignancies using Combined Computational Intelligence, Bioinformatics and Laboratory Molecular Biology Approaches [#100]
Jack Yang, Mary Yang, Zuojie Luo, Andrzej Niemierko and Jianling Li
Harvard Univ. and Massachusetts General Hosp, United States; National Human Genome Research Inst., NIH-USDHHS, United States; Harvard, Joslin Diabetes Ctr - Guangxi Medical U, United States; Guangxi Medical Univ., First Affiliated Hospital, China
2:45PM  Analysis and Prevention of Dispension Errors by Using Data Mining Techniques [#18]
Vincent S. Tseng, Chun-Hao Chen, Hsiao-Ming Chen, Hui-Jen Chang and Chin-Tai Yu
National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan; National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Taiwan

Session PM2-M: Regulatory Pathways and Networks
Monday, April 2, 3:30PM-5:30PM, Room: South Pacific Ballroom, Chair: Jennifer Hallinan

3:30PM  Spectral Decomposition of Signaling Networks [#105]
Bahram Parvin, Nirmalya Ghosh, Laura Heiser, Joe Gray and Paul Spellman
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States
4:00PM  Inference of Gene Regulatory Networks using S-System: A Unified Approach [#41]
Haixin Wang, Lijun Qian and Edward Dougherty
PVAMU, United States; Translational Genomics Research Institute, United States
4:30PM  Optimization of Bacterial Strains with Variable-Sized Evolutionary Algorithms [#131]
Miguel Rocha, Jose P. Pinto, Isabel Rocha and Eugenio C. Ferreira
Dep. Informatics/ CCTC - Univ. Minho, Portugal; IBB-Inst. Biot. and Bioeng.- CEB- Univ. Minho, Portugal; BB-Inst. Biot. and Bioeng.- CEB -Univ. Minho, Portugal
5:00PM  Gene-Gene Interaction Tests Using SVM and Neural Network Modeling [#35]
Nelli Matchenko-Shimko and Marie-Pierre Dube
Montreal Heart Institute, Canada; Universite de Montreal, Montreal Heart Institute, Canada

Plenary Poster Session PS-M: Poster Session 1
Monday, April 2, 7:00PM-9:00PM, Room: South Pacific Ballroom, Chair: L. Gwenn Volkert

  Clustering Microarrays with Predictive Weighted Ensembles [#12]
    Christine Smyth and Danny Coomans
    James Cook University, Australia
  Gene Relation Discovery by Mining Similar Subsequences in Time-Series Microarray Data [#22]
    Vincent S. Tseng, Lien-Chin Chen and Jian-Jie Liu
    National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
  Discovering Connected Patterns in Gene Expression Arrays [#83]
    Noha Yousri, Mohamed Ismail and Mohamed Kamel
    University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
  Matching and Visualization of Multiple Overlapping Clustering of Microarray Data [#127]
    Chase Krumpelman and Joydeep Ghosh
    University of Texas at Austin, United States
  Geometrical probability approach for analyis of 3D chromatin structure in interphase cell nuclei [#1]
    Evgeny Gladilin, Sandra Goetze, Jose Mateos-Langerak, Roel van Driel and Karl Rohr
    DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany; SILS Amsterdam, Netherlands
  Operon Prediction in Microbial Genomes Using Decision Tree Approach [#13]
    Dongsheng Che, Jizhen Zhao, Liming Cai and Ying Xu
    University of Georgia, United States
  An ACGT-Words Tree for Efficient Data Access in Genomic Databases [#17]
    Ye-In Chang, Wei-Horng Yeh, Jiun-Rung Chen and Jen-Wei Hu
    National Sun Yet-Sen University, Taiwan
  An Experimental Evaluation of Inversion- and Transposition-Based Genomic Distances through Simulations [#23]
    Moulik Kothari and Bernard M.E. Moret
    University of New Mexico, United States; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  Overestimation for Multiple Sequence Alignment [#28]
    Tristan Cazenave
    Universite Paris 8, France
  Biological Sequence Mining Using Plausible Neural Network and its Application to Exon/intron Boundaries Prediction [#30]
    Kuochen Li, Dar-jen Chang, Eric Rouchka and Yuan Yan Chen
    University of Louisville, United States; PNN Technologies Inc, United States
  Terminator Detection by Support Vector Machine Utilizing a Stochastic Context-Free Grammar [#32]
    Patricia Francis-Lyon, Nello Cristianini and Stephen Holbrook
    University of California at Davis, United States; University of Bristol, United Kingdom; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States
  Prediction of Co-Regulated Gene Groups through Gene Ontology [#62]
    Zuojian Tang, Sieu Phan, Youlian Pan and Fazel Famili
    National Research Council of Canada, Canada
  Genetic Regulatory Network Modeling Using Network Component Analysis and Fuzzy Clustering [#125]
    Fatemeh Bakouie and Mohammad. Hassan Moradi
    Ms.c student in Biomedical ingineering, Iran; Associate prof of Biomedical engineering, Iran
  Motifs and Modules in Fractured Functional Yeast Networks [#130]
    Jennifer Hallinan and Anil Wipat
    Newcastle University, United Kingdom
  Efficient and Scalable Motif Discovery using Graph-based Search [#86]
    Amit Sinha and Raj Bhatnagar
    University of Cincinnati, United States
  Inferring Regulatory Interactions between Transcriptional Factors and Genes by Propagating Known Regulatory Links [#88]
    Qian Zhong, Riccardo Boscolo, Timothy Gardner and Vwani Roychowdhury
    University of California, Los Angeles, United States; Boston University, United States
  Semantic Analysis of Genome Annotations using Weighting Schemes [#94]
    Bogdan Done, Purvesh Khatri, Arina Done and Sorin Draghici
    Wayne State University, United States
  Comparison of Human and Mouse Pseudogenes [#107]
    Pooja Pooja and Jagath Rajapakse
    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  Modularization of Protein Interaction Networks by Incorporating Gene Ontology Annotations [#56]
    Young-Rae Cho, Woochang Hwang and Aidong Zhang
    State University of New York at Buffalo, United States

Session AM1-T: RNA/Protein Structure and Function
Tuesday, April 3, 8:30AM-10:00AM, Room: South Pacific Ballroom, Chair: Scott Smith

8:30AM  SARNA-Predict: A Study of RNA Secondary Structure Prediction Using Different Annealing Schedules [#117]
Herbert H. Tsang and Kay C. Wiese
Simon Fraser University, Canada
9:00AM  Prediction of Enzyme Catalytic Sites from Sequence Using Neural Networks [#11]
Swati Pande, Raheja Amar and Dennis Livesay
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, United States; University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States
9:30AM  Predicting Peptide Binders of Flexible Lengths with Genetic Annealing Algorithm [#118]
Menaka Rajapakse and Lin Feng
Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Session AM2-T: Sequence Analysis
Tuesday, April 3, 10:15AM-12:15PM, Room: South Pacific Ballroom, Chair: Kay Wiese

10:15AM  RNA Gene Finding with Biased Mutation Operators [#106]
Scott Smith
Boise State University, United States
10:45AM  A Genetic-Based EM Motif-Finding Algorithm for Biological Sequence Analysis [#24]
Chengpeng Bi
Children Mercy Hospitals, United States
11:15AM  Computational Prediction of Replication Origins in Herpesviruses [#37]
Raul Cruz-Cano, Deepak Chandran and Ming-Ying Leung
Bioinformatics Prog., Univ. of Texas at El Paso, United States
11:45AM  Evolutionary-Progressive Method for Multiple Sequence Alignment [#72]
Pawel Kupis and Jacek Mandziuk
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Session PM1-T: Special Session 2 - Fuzzy Systems in Bioinformatics
Tuesday, April 3, 1:15PM-3:15PM, Room: South Pacific Ballroom, Chair: Mihail Popescu

1:15PM  GoFuzzKegg: Mapping Genes to KEGG Pathways Using an Ontological Fuzzy Rule System [#16]
Mihail Popescu,, Dong Xu and Erik Taylor
University of Missouri, Columbia, United States; University of Texas, Houston, United States
1:45PM  Multiple Sequence Alignment using Fuzzy Logic [#79]
Sara Nasser, Gregory Vert, Monica Nicolescu and Alison Murray
University of Nevada Reno, United States; Desert Research Institute, United States
2:15PM  Cost-sensitive Fuzzy Classification for Medical Diagnosis [#113]
Gerald Schaefer, Tomoharu Nakashima, Yasuyuki Yokota and Hisao Ishibuchi
Aston University, United Kingdom; Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
2:45PM  Super Granular SVM Feature Elimination (Super GSVM-FE) Model for Protein Sequence Motif Information Extraction [#82]
Bernard Chen, Stephen Pellicer, Phang C. Tai, Robert Harrison and Yi Pan
Georgia State University Computer Science Depart, United States; Georgia State University Biology Department, United States

Session PM2-T: Computational Biology
Tuesday, April 3, 3:30PM-5:30PM, Room: South Pacific Ballroom, Chair: Clare Bates Congdon

3:30PM  Hybrid Architecture for Accelerating DNA Codeword Library Searching [#68]
Qinru Qiu, Daniel Burns, Qing Wu and Prakash Mukre
Binghamton University, United States; Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome Site, United States
4:00PM  Evolving Extremal Epidemic Networks [#21]
Daniel Ashlock and Fatemeh Jafargholi
University of Guelph, Canada
4:30PM  Building Smart Machines by Utilizing Spiking Neural Networks [#93]
Heike Sichtig
Binghamton University, United States
5:00PM  Multi-Criterion Phylogenetic Inference using Evolutionary Algorithms [#9]
Waldo Cancino and A.C.B. Delbem
ICMC USP, Brazil; ICMC-USP, Brazil

Plenary Poster Session PS2: Poster Session
Tuesday, April 3, 7:00PM-9:00PM, Room: South Pacific Ballroom, Chair: L. Gwenn Volkert

  A Framework for Discrete Modeling of Juxtacrine Signaling Systems [#33]
    Luiz Rozante, Marco Gubitoso and Sergio Matioli
    Imes University, Brazil; University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
  A Comparison of Sequence Kernels for Localization Prediction of Transmembrane Proteins [#39]
    Stefan Maetschke, Marcus Gallagher and Boden Mikael
    University of Queensland, Australia
  Feature Sensitivity on Biochemical Signaling Pathways [#40]
    George Papadopoulos and Martin Brown
    The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
  In vivo Intracellular Metabolite Dynamics Estimation by Sequential Monte Carlo Filter [#46]
    Jing Yang, Visakan Kadirkamanathan and Stephen Billings
    The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
  Real Value Solvent Accessibility Prediction using Adaptive Support Vector Regression [#52]
    Jayavardhana Gubbi, Alistair Shilton, Marimuthu Palaniswami and Michael Parker
    The University of Melbourne, Australia; St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research,, Australia
  Active Learning for Network Estimation [#61]
    Shotaro Akaho and Kenji Fukumizu
    AIST, Japan; Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan
  Metabolic Flux Estimation from Incomplete Labelling Measurements Using the Expectation/Conditional-Maximisation Algorithm [#64]
    Sarawan Wongsa, Visakan Kadirkamanathan, Stephen A. Billings and Phillip Wright
    University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
  Understanding the Prediction of Transmembrane Proteins by Support Vector Machine using Association Rule Mining [#84]
    Hae-Jin Hu, Hao Wang, Robert Harrison, Phang C. Tai and Yi Pan
    Georgia State University, United States
  Synchronization in Complex Dynamical Networks [#101]
    Karsten Kube, Andreas Herzog, Bernd Michaelis, Ana de Lima and Thomas Voigt
    Otto-von-Guericke Univ. Magdeburg, Germany
  Modeling protein-DNA binding time in Stochastic Discrete Event Simulation of Biological Processes [#104]
    Preetam Ghosh, Samik Ghosh, Kalyan Basu and Sajal Das
    University of Texas at Arlington, United States
  Channel Selection in EEG-based Prediction of Shoulder/Elbow Movement Intentions involving Stroke Patients: A Computational Approach [#120]
    Jie Zhou and Sundeep Yedida
    Northern Illinois University, United States
  A Closer Look on Protein Unfolding Simulations through Hierarchical Clustering [#122]
    Pedro G. Ferreira, Candida G. Silva, Rui M. M. Brito and Paulo J. Azevedo
    University of Minho, Portugal; University of Coimbra, Portugal
  Integrating Drosophila Data to Discover Disease-Related Protein Interactions in Human [#123]
    James Costello, Jade Buchanan-Carter, Mehmet Dalkilic and Justen Andrews
    Indiana University, United States
  A Flexible Fully-Multiplicative Orthogonal-Group Based ICA Algorithm [#19]
    Yalan Ye, Jing Wan, Zhi-Lin Zhang, Jia Chen and Lei Wu
    University of Electronic Science and Technology, China; Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
  The Difference of Bilateral Limbs Involvement During Trunk Bending and Reaching in Stroke Patients [#20]
    Jen-Suh Chern, Saiwei Yang, Chi-Wen Long and Chen-Yu Lo
    Chang Gung University, Taiwan; Yang Ming University, Taiwan; Chinese Medicine University, Taiwan
  Color-Texture Segmentation of Medical Images Based on Local Contrast Information [#25]
    Yuchou Chang, Dah-Jye Lee and Yong-Gang Wang
    ECE Department, Brigham Young University, United States; Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, Korea (South)
  Towards an Automated Analysis of Neuroleptics' Impact on Human Hand Motor Skills [#53]
    Matthias Dose, Christian Gruber, Ariane Grunz, Christian Hook and Juergen Kempf
    Mental Health Institution Taufkirchen, Germany; University of Passau, Germany; University of Applied Sciences Regensburg, Germany
  Extracting Efficient Fuzzy If-Then Rules From Mass Spectra of Blood SamplesTo Early Diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer [#60]
    Amin Assareh and Mohammad Hasan Moradi
    MSc Student, Iran; Associative Professor, Iran