BITS 2006

Bologna - April 28-29, 2006

Conference Program

Friday 28th April
c/o SALONE BOLOGNINI - Biblioteca Monumentale del Convento San Domenico
Piazza San Domenico 13, Bologna

8:00 REGISTRATION

Start of the session at 8:45 AM
        

8:45 Opening BITS2006

9:00 Anna Tramontano, Università "La Sapienza" Roma:"Structural bioinformatics: applications, limits and perspectives."

9:30 Dominic Clark, EBI:"SYMBIOmatics: EU Roadmapping Project in Biomedical Informatics."

9:45 Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, EBI: "Online text crunching for life science research: a pipeline of modules for text processing."

10:30 Coffee Break

Genome Screening and Prediction

11:00   TFBSs prediction by integration of genomic, evolutionary, and gene expression data
                #2, Ambesi-Impiombato A, Bansal M, Rispoli R, Liò P, Di Bernardo D
11:20   IMAGE: a new tool for the discovery of Transcription Factors binding sites
                #88, Paparcone R, Casilli R, Melchionna S, Marongiu A, Palazzari P, Rosato V
11:40   HServ and SNPly: a software infrastructure and a web agent for linking information on genetic variation
                #58, Gallimbeni R, Falconi M, Desideri A

Computational Proteomics

12:00   A computational approach for detecting peptidases and their specific inhibitors at the genome level
                #48, Fariselli P, Bartoli L, Calabrese R, Mita DG, Casadio R
12:20   A novel structure-based encoding for machine-learning applied to the prediction of SH3 domain specificity
                #50, Ferraro E, Via A, Ausiello G, Helmer-Citterich M
12:40   Protein contact prediction with correlated mutation analysis using mixed physiochemical constraints
                #60, Horner D, Pesole G

13:00 Lunch at "Caffè della Corte"

15:00 Alfonso Valencia, CNB: "Exploring sequence space"

Microarray and Genome Analysis

16:00   Microarray cross-platforms differential expression validation
                #38, Cordero F, Saviozzi S, Di Renzo MF, Olivero M, Cirenei N, Calogero RA
16:20   Splicy: a web-based tool for the prediction of possible alternative splicing events from Affymetrix probeset data
                #96, Rambaldi D, Felice B, Praz V, Bucher P, Guffanti A
16:40   Genome-wide prediction of PCR products based on termodynamic parameters
                #17, Boccia A, Silvestre A, Paolella G

17:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session

18:30 Assemblea dei soci BITS
 

20:00 End of the session

21:00 Social Dinner at "Ristorante MareLuna", Via Saragozza, 13
 

Saturday 29th April
c/o SALONE BOLOGNINI - Biblioteca Monumentale del Convento San Domenico
Piazza San Domenico 13, Bologna

            Start of the session at 9.30 AM

Protein Structure and Function

  9:30   Alignment of Homologous Protein Structures in the Presence of Domain Motions
                #80, Mosca R, Schneider RT
  9:50   A new procedure to detect similarities among distant homologous proteins based on the comparison of domain flexibilities
                #85, Pandini A, Mauri G, Bonati L
10:10   GAIA: Generation of alternative alignments by an inverse approach
                #106, Tosatto SCE, Albiero A

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00   Structural adaptation to low temperatures: analysis of the subunit interface of oligomeric psychrophilic enzymes
                #110, Tronelli D, Gianese G, Pascarella S
11:20   The MEPS server for identifying protein conformational epitopes
                #33, Castrignanò T, D'Onorio De Meo P, Carrabino D, Orsini M, Floris M, Tramontano A
11:40   Construction of compositionally biased amino acid substitution matrices to improve annotation of Plasmodium falciparum proteins
                #19, Brick K, Pizzi E

Genomes and Evolution

12:00   A Global Gene Evolution Analysis on Vibrionaceae Family Using Phylogenetic Profile
                #114, Vitulo N, Vezzi A, Campanaro S, Romualdi C, Lauro F, Valle G
12:20   Comparative Genomics of OXPHOS gene families
                #64, Lanave C, De Grassi A, Saccone C
12:40   Intragenic antisense transcription correlates with long UTRs
                #54, Finocchiaro G, Parise P, Di Ninni V, Francois S, Carro MS, Muller H

13:00 Lunch at "Caffè della Corte"

Networks and Systems Biology

15:00   The Wnt Pathway as in silico disease model for neuro-oncology
                #66, Malusa F, Gonzalez Couto E, Rossi M. Bakker A, Kremer A, Terstappen GC
15:20   Developement of a data mining system for human cell cycle data analysis
                #75, Milanesi L, Alfieri R, Merelli I
15:40   Precedence temporal networks for the representation of temporal relationships in gene expression data
                #100, Sacchi L, Larizza C, Magni P, Bellazzi R
16:00   A systems biology approach to the functional screening of genomes
                #35, Chiarugi D, Degano P, Marangoni R
16:20   Assembling the Yeast Interactome
                #91 Persico M, Kiemer L, Cesareni G
16:40   Quantifying the relevance of different mediators in the human immune cell network
                #105, Tieri P, Valensin S, Latora V, Castellani GC, Marchiori M, Remondini D, Franceschi C

17:00 Round Table Discussion

Bioinformatica: Applicazioni, Sviluppi e Prospettive  

Participants: Cecilia Saccone (CNR/Università di Bari), Lilia Alberghina (Università di Milano Bicocca), Alberto Albertini (CNR ITB, Milano), Aldo Tagliabue (ALTA/Chiron Siena), Corrado Priami (Centre for Computational and Systems Biology, Università di Trento), Enrico Nardelli (Computer Science, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata")

19:00 Closing BITS