Annual Colloquium of the DFG Schwerpunkt

“Informatics Methods for the Analysis and Interpretation of Large Genomic Datasets”

Thursday and Friday September 19 and 20, 2002, EMBL Heidelberg, Small Operon

Preliminary Program

Thursday, September 19, 2002

12.00 -14.00 Registration at the entrance to the EMBL Cantine (Nelly van der Jagt)

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch in the EMBL Cantine

13.30 – 15.50 Talks

13:30 Welcome address
(Thomas Dandekar, Peer Bork, Heidelberg)

14:00 Protein Structure Prediction: Methods and Applications
(Thomas Lengauer, Saarbrücken)

14:30 Protein docking with ELMAR (Steffen Neumann, Bielefeld)

14:50 1:n Docking of flexible proteins
(Stefan Schönauer, München)

15:10 Target functions for the segment-based sequence alignment

(Burkhard Morgenstern, Bielefeld)

15:30 Improving the success rate of structural genomics through intelligent decision support
(Dimitrij Frishman, Neuherberg)

15.50 – 16.10 Coffee Break

16.10 – 18.40 Talks

16:10 New Methods for Protein-Protein-Docking
(Ralf Blossey, Saarbrücken)

16:40 Algorithms for decomposing complex metabolic networks
(Stefan Schuster, Berlin)

17:10 Comparative Methods for the Analysis, Visualization and Interpretation of Large Genomic Datasets
(Kay Nieselt-Struwe, Tübingen)

17:40 MARGBench - Object-oriented Modelling of Gene Networks
(Andreas Freier, Bielefeld)

18:10 Efficient index-based database search for genomic hybrid patterns (Dirk Strothmann, Bielefeld)

19:00 Dinner in the EMBL Cantine

20:00 In Silico Proteome Analysis Resources at the EBI
(Invited guest speaker: Rolf Apweiler, Cambridge)

21.00 Transport to ISG

Friday, September 20, 2002

09.00 – 10.40 Talks

09:00 Metabolomics and Bioinformatics
(Ralf Takors, Jülich und Wolfgang Wiechert, Siegen)

09:40 Clustering of ESTs using suffix trees
(Jürgen Kleffe, Berlin)

10:00 Better discrimination between introns and non-coding sequences by
directed intron models
(Sven Mielordt, Berlin)

10:20 Methods for the Validation of Biochemical Data
(Ulrike Wittig, Heidelberg)

10.40 – 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 – 12.30 Talks

11:00 Mining the Arevir database
(Martin Däumer, Köln)

11:20 Optimizing antiviral combination therapies
(Niko Beerenwinkel, Saarbrücken)

11:40 Automated literature-mining for the modelling of transcriptional and post- transcriptional regulation (Holger Meier, Ralf Schneider, Neuherberg)

12:10 Functional annotation of protein sequences using machine learning algorithms (Igor Tetko, Neuherberg)

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch in the EMBL Cantine

14:00 Concluding Discussion
(Moderation: Thomas Lengauer, Saarbrücken)

14:30 End of Meeting