Probabilistic Modeling and Machine Learning in Structural and Systems Biology (PMSB 2006)

Tuusula, Finland, 17-18 June 2006

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Program schedule

Sat, June 17, 2006 Sun, June 18, 2006
8:30-09:15 Registration & Opening 08:30-09:15 Invited talk #3
9:15-10:00 Invited talk #1 09:15-10:15 Session 3 / part I
10:00-11:00 Session 1 / part I 10:15-10:45 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 Coffee break 10:45-12:15 Session 3 / part II
11:30-12:30 Session 1 /part II
12:30-14:30 Lunch 12:15-14:00 Lunch
14:30-15:15 Invited talk #2 14:00-15:00 Session 4
15:15-15:45 Session 2 / part I 15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:45-16:15 Coffee break 15:30-16:15 Invited talk #4
16:15-17:15 Session 2 / part II 16:15-16.30 Closing
17:30-18:30 Poster session 17:15 Transportation to Hanasaari for ISSY25 participants
18:30-19:45 Sauna & Swimming
20:00- Dinner

Detailed program

Sat, June 17, 2006
8:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-09:15 Opening
09:15-10:00 Invited talk by Koji Tsuda: "Probabilistic Inference for Graph Classification"
Session 1 Prediction methods for sequence data
10:00-10:30 Rätsch, Sonnenburg, Srinivasan, Witte, Muller, Sommer, Schölkopf: Improving the Caenorhabditis elegans Genome Annotation using Machine Learning
10:30-11:00 Landwehr, Mielikäinen, Eronen, Toivonen, Mannila: Constrained Hidden Markov Models for Population-based Haplotyping
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Oja, Peltonen, Kaski: Estimation of human endogeneous retrovirus activities from expressed sequence databases
12:00-12:30 Willis: Predicting co-evolving pairs in Pfam using information theory where entropy is determined by phylogenetic mutation events
12:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:15 Invited talk by Jukka Jernvall: "Lost in Translation from Genes to Organisms"
Session 2 Methods for expression and metabolome data
15:15-15:45 Rogers, Khanin, Girolami: Model based identification of transcription factor activity from microarray data
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-16:45 Pelckmans, Van Vooren, Coessens, Suykens, De Moor: Mutual Spectral Clustering: Microarray Experiments Versus Text Corpus
16:45-17:15 Vehtari, Mäkinen, Soininen, Ingman, Mäkelä, Savolainen, Hannuksela, Kaski, Ala-Korpela: A Novel Bayesian Approach for Uncovering Potential Spectroscopic Counterparts for Clinical Variables in 1H NMR Metabonomic Applications
17:30-18:30 Poster session
18:30-19:45 Sauna & Swimming
20:00- Dinner
Sun, June 18, 2006
08:30-09:15 Invited talk by Ross D. King: "The Challenge of Predicting Gene Function"
Session 3 Prediction methods for functional genomics
09:15-09:45 Roth, Fischer: Improved Functional Prediction of Proteins by Learning Kernel Combinations in Multilabel Setting
09:45-10:15 Blockeel, Schietgat, Struyf, Clare, Dzeroski: Hierarchical Multilabel Classification Trees for Gene Function Prediction
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:15 Geurts, Touleimat, Dutreix, d'Alche-Buc: Completion of biological networks : the output kernel trees approach
11:15-11:45 Gopalacharyulu, Lindfors, Bounsaythip, Oresic: Context dependent visualization of protein function
11:45-12:15 Nagl, Williams, El-Mehidi, Patkar, Williamson: Objective Bayesian Nets for Breast Cancer Prognosis
12:15-14:00 Lunch
Session 4 Structure recognition and prediction
14:00-14:30 Girolami: Bayesian Data Fusion with Gaussian Process Priors : An Application to Protein Fold Recognition
14:30-15:00 Kato, Seki, Kasami: RNA Structure Prediction Including Pseudoknots Based on Stochastic Multiple Context-Free Grammar
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:15 Invited talk by Tommi Jaakkola: "Game theoretic models in molecular biology"
16:15-16:30 Closing
17:15 Transportation to Hanasaari for ISSY25 participants

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