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July 7, 2007, Saturday

19:00-22:00

Workshop Dinner (Sklep Restaurant&Bar, fee approximately 30 Euros/person.)

July 8, 2007, Sunday

 (all events in RB 211 at the University of Economics, Prague)

08:00-09:00

Workshop Registration

09:00-09:10

Welcome and Opening Remarks Metin Türkay, Koç University

09:10-10:10

Invited Session #1, Session Chair: Jacek Blazewicz

        Christodolous A. Floudas, Princeton University

        Advances and Challenges in De Novo Protein Design

10:10-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-12:30

Invited Session #2, Session Chair: Ceyda Oguz

Ivet Bahar, University of Pittsburgh

Protein Dynamics and Allostery: Insights from Network Models

Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, EBI, Cambridge, UK

Streaming facts from scientific publications to the scientist and new frontiers in publishing

12:30-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-15:30

Contributed Session #1, Session Chair: Gerhard Wilhelm Weber

F.J. Planes^1,2 and J.E. Beasley¹, ¹Brunel University, ²University of Navarra

Path finding approaches and metabolic pathways

Gunnar W. Klau, Free University of Berlin

Comparing Structural Information in the Life Sciences: From RNA to Metabolic Networks

Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Pakize Taylan, Zeynep Alparslan Gök, Başak Akteke Öztürk, Süreyya Özöğür, Ömür Uğur and Aysun Tezel, Middle East Technical University

A New Mathematical Approach in Environmental Protection: Gene-Environment Networks and Their Dynamics

Fadime Üney Yüksektepe and Metin Türkay, Koç University

Mixed-Integer Programming based Hyper-Box Enclosure Method for Predicting Folding Type of Proteins

Paola Bertolazzi, Giovanni Felici, Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi e Informatica “Antonio Ruberti”, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

Logic Mining Methods: introduction and applications to bioinformatics

David Gomez-Cabrero¹, Salva Ardid², Albert Compte², ¹Universitat de Valencia, ²Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer

Exploring the specificity of the relationship between cortical network function and biological simulation parameters with a Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm.

15:30-15:50

Coffee Break

15:50-16:50

Contributed Session #2 - BIOPTRAIN Track, Session Chair: Jon Garibaldi

Alexandr Kovalev, Poznan University of Technology

Polynomial time approximation algorithms for the Simplified Partial Digest Problem

Andrea Sackmann, Poznan University of Technology

A DNA Computing algorithm for calculating the maxflow in networks

Linda Fiaschi, University of Nottingham

SNPs analysis in common diseases susceptibility

16:50-17:00

Coffee Break

Contributed Session #3 - BIOPTRAIN Track, Session Chair: Jon Garibaldi

Marc Vincent, Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Firenze

CK2 phosphoacceptor sites prediction

Matt Labbé, Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Leo Tranchevent, Aerts S, Van Loo P, Shi Y, Barriot R, Coessens B, Hassan B and Moreau Y.
Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT-SCD), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Gene prioritization through genomic data fusion

Francisco Bonachela, Patrick De Causmaecker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Heuristics for gene prioritisation

18:20-18:30