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6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY<br><br>
AlCoB 2019<br><br>
Berkeley, California, USA<br><br>
May 28-30, 2019<br><br>
Co-organized by:<br><br>
University of California, Berkeley<br><br>
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London<br><br>
http://alcob2019.irdta.eu/<br>
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PROGRAM<br><br>
Tuesday, May 28<br><br>
09:00 - 09:30 Registration<br><br>
09:30 - 09:40 Opening<br><br>
09:40 - 10:30 Igor Jurisica. Explanable AI for Data-driven Medicine - Invited lecture<br><br>
10:30 - 10:45 Break<br><br>
10:45 - 12:00<br><br>
Tom Davot, Annie Chateau, Rodolphe Giroudeau and Mathias Weller. New Polynomial-time Algorithm around the Scaffolding Problem<br><br>
Ozan Kahramanogullari. Enumerating Dominant Pathways in Biological Networks by Information Flow Analysis<br><br>
Sridevi Maharaj, Zarin Ohiba and Wayne Hayes. Comparing Different Graphlet Measures for Evaluating Network Model Fits to BioGRID PPI Networks<br><br>
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch<br><br>
13:30 - 14:20 Lior Pachter. Algorithms for Single-cell Genomics - Invited lecture<br><br>
14:20 - 14:35 Break<br><br>
14:35 - 15:50<br><br>
Louis Petingi and Tamar Schlick. Graph-theoretic Partitioning of RNAs and Classification of Pseudoknots<br><br>
Alexander Shlemov and Anton Korobeynikov. PathRacer: Racing Profile HMM Paths on Assembly Graph<br><br>
Pavel Avdeyev, Maria Atamanova, and Max A. Alekseyev. A Uniform Theory of Adequate Subgraphs for the Genome Median, Halving, and Aliquoting Problems<br><br>
15:50 - 17:00 Poster session I<br><br>
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Wednesday, May 29<br><br>
09:30 - 10:20 Pavel A. Pevzner. Bioinformatics: A Servant or the Queen of Molecular Biology? - Invited lecture<br><br>
10:20 - 10:35 Break<br><br>
10:35 - 11:50<br><br>
Veronica Guerrini and Giovanna Rosone. Lightweight Metagenomic Classification via eBWT<br><br>
Christopher Wright, Sriram Krishnamoorty and Milind Kulkarni. MULKSG: MULtiple K Simultaneous Graph Assembly<br><br>
João Paulo Pereira Zanetti, Leonid Chindelevitch and João Meidanis. Counting Sorting Scenarios and Intermediate Genomes for the Rank Distance<br><br>
11:50 - 13:20 Group photo and Lunch<br><br>
13:20 - 14:10 Teresa Przytycka. Exploring Phenotypic Heterogeneity across Tissues and Conditions with Network-based Approaches - Invited lecture<br><br>
14:10 - 14:25 Break<br><br>
14:25 - 15:40 <br><br>
João Paulo Pereira Zanetti, Leonid Chindelevitch and João Meidanis. Generalizations of the Genomic Rank Distance to Indels<br><br>
Thien Le, Aaron Sy, Erin K. Molloy, Qiuyi (Richard) Zhang, Satish Rao and Tandy Warnow. Using INC within Divide-and-Conquer Phylogeny Estimation<br><br>
Alona Levy-Jurgenson, Xavier Tekpli, Vessela N. Kristensen and Zohar Yakhini. Predicting Methylation from Sequence and Gene Expression Using Deep Learning with Attention<br><br>
15:40 - 16:50 Poster session II<br><br>
17:00 Walk around the campus<br><br>
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Thursday, May 30<br><br>
09:30 - 10:20 Tandy Warnow. Advances in Mathematical Approaches to Constructing the Tree of Life - Invited lecture<br><br>
10:20 - 10:35 Break<br><br>
10:35 - 11:50<br><br>
Kari Nousiainen, Jukka Intosalmi and Harri Lähdesmäki. A Mathematical Model for Enhancer Activation Kinetics during Cell Differentiation<br><br>
Atif Rahman and Lior Pachter. Transcript Abundance Estimation and the Laminar Packing Problem<br><br>
Peng Xiao, Xingyu Cai and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran. Efficient Algorithms for Finding Edit-distance Based Motifs<br><br>
11:50 - 12:00 Closing<br><br>
12:00 Lunch<br>
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