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4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY<br><br>
AlCoB 2017<br><br>
Aveiro, Portugal<br><br>
June 5-6, 2017<br><br>
Organized by:<br><br>
Center for Research & Development in Mathematics and Applications (CIDMA)<br>
Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA)<br>
University of Aveiro<br><br>
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)<br>
Rovira i Virgili University<br><br>
http://grammars.grlmc.com/AlCoB2017/<br><br>
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PROGRAM<br><br>
Monday, June 5<br><br>
09:00 - 09:30 Registration<br><br>
09:30 - 09:40 Opening<br><br>
09:40 - 10:30 Michael Biehl: Biomedical Applications of Prototype Based Classifiers and Relevance Learning - Invited lecture<br><br>
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break<br><br>
11:00 - 11:50<br><br>
Stefano Beretta, Paola Bonizzoni, Luca Denti, Marco Previtali and Raffaella Rizzi: Mapping RNA-seq Data to a Transcript Graph via Approximate Pattern Matching to a Hypertext<br>
Alessio Conte, Roberto Grossi, Andrea Marino, Lorenzo Tattini and Luca Versari: A Fast Algorithm for Large Common Connected Induced Subgraphs<br><br>
11:50 - 12:05 Break<br><br>
12:05 - 12:55<br><br>
Javlon E. Isomurodov, Alexander A. Loboda and Alexey A. Sergushichev: Ranking Vertices for Active Module Recovery Problem<br>
John L. Pfaltz: Computational Processes that Appear to Model Human Memory<br><br>
12:55 - 14:25 Lunch<br><br>
14:25 - 15:15<br><br>
Philip J. Gerrish and Nick Hengartner: Inferring the Distribution of Fitness Effects (DFE) of Newly-arising Mutations Using Samples Taken from Evolving Populations in Real Time<br>
Jesper Jansson, Ramesh Rajaby and Wing-Kin Sung: An Efficient Algorithm for the Rooted Triplet Distance between Galled Trees<br><br>
15:15 - 15:30 Break and Group photo<br><br>
15:30 - 16:20 Benedict Paten: Describing the Local Structure of Sequence Graphs - Invited lecture<br><br>
16:20 - 16:35 Break<br><br>
16:35 - 18:05 Poster presentations<br><br>
Martin Ayling and Richard Leggett. MetaCortex: Assembling Variation in Metagenomics<br>
Gregory Farrant, Hoebeke Mark, Frédéric Partensky, Gwendoline Andrès, Erwan Corre and Laurence Garczarek. WiseScaffolder: An Algorithm for the Semi-automatic Scaffolding of Next Generation Sequencing Data<br>
Daniel Figueiredo and Eugénio Rocha. sDL: A Prover for Hybrid Systems<br>
César González, Mariano Pérez-Martínez, Juan M. Orduña, Javier Chaves-Martinez and Ana Barbara Garcia-Garcia. On the Use of Bit Arrays in the Detection of DNA Regions with Methylated Cytosines<br>
Morteza Hosseini, Diogo Pratas and Armando J. Pinho. Quantifying Inverted Repeats in DNA Sequences<br>
Haneen Najjar, Nagam Khoury and Alexander Bolshoy. Quasi-omnipresent N-grams in M Prokaryotic Genomes<br>
John Santerre, James Davis, Fangfang Xia and Rick Stevens. Machine Learning for the Phenotype to Genotype Problem<br>
Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros and María Rodríguez-Romero. Multilayer Perceptron Based on Hyperbolic Tangent Hidden Nodes. An Experimental Study<br>
Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros, Luis Rus-Pegalajar, María Rodríguez-Romero and Jonathan E. Benavides-Vallejo. Ranking-based Feature Selection in Microarray Problems<br><br>
18:15 - 19:15 Touristic visit<br><br>
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Tuesday, June 6<br><br><br>
09:00 - 09:50 Marie-France Sagot: Algorithmically Exploring and Exploiting Interspecific Interactions - Invited lecture<br><br>
09:50 - 10:20 Coffee break<br><br>
10:20 - 11:10<br><br>
Alex Ozdemir, Michael Sheely, Daniel Bork, Ricson Cheng, Reyna Hulett, Jean Sung, Jincheng Wang and Ran Libeskind-Hadas: Clustering the Space of Maximum Parsimony Reconciliations in the Duplication-Transfer-Loss Model<br>
T.M. Rezwanul Islam and Ian McQuillan: CSA-X: Modularized Constrained Multiple Sequence Alignment<br><br>
11:10 - 11:25 Break<br><br>
11:25 - 12:15<br><br>
Ozan Kahramanogullari: Quantifying Information Flow in Chemical Reaction Networks<br>
Gabriel H.G. Silva, Edans F.O. Sandes, George Teodoro and Alba C.M A. Melo: Parallel Biological Sequence Comparison in Linear Space with Multiple Adjustable Bands<br><br>
12:15 - 12:25 Closing<br><br>
12:25 - Lunch</body></html>