ISB 2010

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Day 1: 15^th February, 2010 (Monday)

8:00 - 9:00	Registration for ISB 2010
9:00- 10:00	Inaugural Session
10:00- 10:30	Tea Break
10:30 - 11:15	Keynote Address: Prof Eric Jakobsson (Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Biophysics, Bioengineering and Neuroscience, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Topic: What kind of graph is the Tree of Life? Insights from a domain/ motif-based view of Molecular Biology
Technical Session I: Sequence Analysis and Molecular Phylogenetics Session Chair: Dr. Dan Tulpan (Research Officer, NRC-IIT, Canada)
11:20 - 12:40	Paper Presentations
BIO 150: Chronological order of reversal events on Rickettsia genus Christian Baudet, INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes, Laboratoire de Biometrie et Biologie Evolutive, France Zanoni Dias, Institute of Computing, State University of Campinas – Unicamp, Sao Paulo, Brazil BIO 178: Molecular evolution of the N-acetylglucosamine-6-phosphate deacetylase gene K.Arunkumar, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India Narayanan Manoj, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India BIO 187: Analysis of disordered regions in protein kinase subfamilies of Homo sapiens and Coenorhabditi elegans Kavitha Kurup, Centre for Excellence in Bioinformatics, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India Jeyakumar Natarajan, Centre for Excellence in Bioinformatics, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India BIO 205: DNA barcoding and microsatellite marker development for Ansonia ornata- an endangered amphibian species Meenakshi K, Chemical Biology Division, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India Remya Reveendran, Chemical Biology Division, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India Sanil George, Chemical Biology Division, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
12:40 - 13:25	Lunch
Technical Session II: Deciphering molecular interactions through computational approaches Session Chair : Dr. V.A. Parthasarathy (Director, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut, Kerala, India)
13:30 - 14:15	Invited Lecture: Dr. Shiaofen Fang (Professor, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Indiana University- Purdue University Indianapolis, USA)
Topic: Gene Terrain: A Visual Analytics Approach to Bioinformatics
14:15 - 15:35	Paper Presentations
BIO 113: Comparative sequence and structural analyses of neuroserpin- the serine protease inhibitor family Kuchi Srikeerthana, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Computer Science, Belgium Patrick De Causmaecker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Computer Science, Belgium BIO 131: In silico approach to discover multi-target-directed ligands for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease Ankit Tyagi, Centre for Pharmacoinformatics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Punjab, India Shikhar Gupta, Centre for Pharmacoinformatics, NIPER, Punjab, India C Gopi Mohan, Centre for Pharmacoinformatics, NIPER, Punjab, India BIO 137: Computational design of soluble variants of transmembrane proteins- an information theoretic approach Jishnu Das, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
15:35 - 15:50	Tea Break
15:50 - 16:50	Paper Presentations
BIO 164: Hydrophobic tint of knot proteins Lissy Anto P, Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India Achuthsankar S.Nair, Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India BIO 173: Biomedical association mining and validation Premchand Gandra, School of Informatics, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Meeta Pradhan, School of Informatics, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Mathew J Palakal, School of Informatics, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA BIO 223: Improving prediction of protein secondary structure using physicochemical properties of amino acids Piyali Chatterjee, Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Gaia, India Subhadip Basu, Jadavpur University, India Mita Nasipuri, Jadavpur University, India
Day 2: 16^th February, 2010 (Tuesday)
8:30 - 9:00	Registration desk open for post-symposium trip information
Technical Session III: Transcriptome analysis and functional bioinformatics Session Chair: Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair (Hon. Director, Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India)
9:00 - 9:45	Invited lecture: Dr. Jake Chen (Director, Indiana Centre for Systems biology and Personalized Medicine, IUPUI, USA)
Topic: Translational Bioinformatics: Power tools for Predictive Molecular Medicine
10:00 - 11:00	Paper Presentations
BIO 153: Understanding Swiss-Prot protein interactions with first principle methods and statistical scoring Meeta Pradhan, School of Informatics, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Premchand Gandra, School of Informatics, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Mathew J Palakal, School of Informatics, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA BIO 160: Cis Regulatory module discovery in immune cell development Satishkumar R Ganakammal, School of Informatics, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Mark H Kaplan, Departments of Pediatrics and Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University, Indiana, USA Narayanan B Perumal, School of Informatics, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA BIO 166: Identifying the nature of the interface in protein-protein complexes Pralay Mitra, Supercomputer Education and Research Center, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
11:00 - 11:45	Poster Session*/Tea Break
* For Poster Paper details, Please see Appendix I
11:40 - 13:00	Paper Presentations
BIO 188: Mining SSR and SNP/Indel sites in expressed sequence tag libraries of Radopholus similis Riju A, Bioinformatics Centre, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut, India Lakshmi PDK, Bioinformatics Centre, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut, India Nima PL, Bioinformatics Centre, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut, India Reena N, Bioinformatics Centre, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut, India Eapen SJ, Bioinformatics Centre, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut, India BIO 190: Gene identification in Phytophthora capsici through expressed sequence tags N Reena, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut, Kerala, India A Chandrasekar, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut, Kerala, India A Riju, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut, Kerala, India Nima PL, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut, Kerala, India Eapen SJ, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut, Kerala, India M Anandaraj, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut, Kerala, India BIO 208: Gene regulatory network from microarray data using dynamic neural fuzzy approach Vineetha S, Department of Computer Science, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Kottayam, Kerala, India Chandra Shekara Bhat C, National Institute of Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala,India Sumam Mary Idicula, Department of Computer Science, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala, India BIO 176: Application of reactive GRASP to the biclustering of gene expression data Shyama Das, Department of Computer Science, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala, India Sumam Mary Idicula, Department of Computer Science, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, Kerala, India
13:00 - 13:30	Lunch
Technical Session IV: Data Mining and Pattern Matching Algorithms Session Chair : Dr. Shiaofen Fang (Dept. of Computer and Information Science, IUPUI, USA)
13:30 - 14:15	Invited lecture: Dr. Dan Tulpan (Research Officer, NRC-IIT, Canada)
Topic: The Art of DNA Strand Design: Past, Present and Future
14:15 - 15:35	Paper Presentations
BIO 135: Fuzzy pattern extraction for classification of protein sequences Abhijit Kulkarni, SAS R &D (I) Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India Arnold Noronha, Computer Science Department, University of Pennsylvania, USA SasankaRoy, Computer Science Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India SavitaAngadi, SAS R &D (I) Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India BIO 144: Complete enumeration of compact structural motifs in proteins Bhadrachalam Chitturi, UTSW Medical Center at Dallas, Texas, USA Doina Bein, Applied Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA Nick V. Grishin, UTSW Medical Center at Dallas, Texas, USA BIO 186: Improving motif refinement using hybrid expectation maximization and random projection Shashidhara HS, Data Mining Laboratory, M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India Prince Joseph, Data Mining Laboratory, M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India KG Srinivasa, Data Mining Laboratory, M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India BIO 196: Inference of gene regulatory network using modified genetic algorithm S Seema, Department of Computer Science, M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India KS Ramanatha, Department of Computer Science, M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India
15:35 - 15:50	Tea Break
15:50 - 17:30	Paper Presentations
BIO 183: Human PolII promoter prediction by using nucleotide property composition features Wen-Lin Huang, Department of Management Information System, Chin Min Institute of Technology, Miaoli, Taiwan Chun-Wei Tung, Institute of Bioinformatics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan Shinn-Ying Ho, Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan BIO 204: Extending Bafna-Pevzner algorithm Ulisses Dias, Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, Brazil Zanoni Dias, Institute of Computing, University of Campinas, Brazil BIO 213: An integrated model for visualizing biclusters from gene expression data and PPI networks Ahmet Emre Aladag, Computer Engineering, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey Cesim Erten, Computer Engineering, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey Melih Sözdinler, Computer Engineering, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey BIO 220: A Gibbs sampling algorithm for motif discovery Daming Lu, Computer Science Department, University of New Orleans, USA BIO 226: Iterative visual clustering for unstructured text mining Qian You, Dept of Computer and Information Science, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, USA Shiaofen Fang, Dept of Computer and Information Science, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, USA Patricia Ebright, Dept. of Adult Health, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA
18:00 - 20:30	Cultural Program and Banquet
Day 3: 17^th February, 2010 (Wednesday)
Technical Session V: In silico analysis in biomedical research Session Chair : Dr. Sathish Mundayoor (Scientist G, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India)
9:00 - 9:45	Invited Lecture: Dr. V N Balaji (Director and Chief Scientific Mentor, Jubilant Biosys Limited, Bangalore, India)
Topic: Modeling and Simulation for Molecular Design
9:45 - 10:45	Paper Presentations
BIO 120: Study of indole inhibitors to increase the affinity of human non-pancreatic secretory phospholipase A2 in inflammatory disease Amit Nagal, Department of Biotechnology, Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur, India Swapnil, Department of Biotechnology, Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur, India Hemendra Yadav, Department of Biotechnology, Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur, India Krishna Mohan, Department of Biotechnology, Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur, India P Ghosh, Department of Biotechnology, Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur, India BIO 172: SpiceRDb: An integrated knowledgebase of “Spice-disease” remedies Rini Pauly, School of Informatics, Indiana University-Purdue University,Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Meeta Pradhan, School of Informatics, Indiana University-Purdue University,Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Mathew J. Palakal, School of Informatics, Indiana University-Purdue University,Indianapolis, Indiana, USA BIO 181: sRNA associated genomic islands in Salmonella spp. J. Sridhar, Max Planck Institute of Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany K. Kavitha, Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India BIO 185: Identifying human miRNA targets with a genetic algorithm Kalle Karhu, Dept. of CSE, Aalto University, Finland Sami Khuri, Dept. of Computer Science, SJSU, USA Juho Mäkinen, Dept. of CSE, Aalto University, Finland Jorma Tarhio, Dept. of CSE, Aalto University, Finland
10:45 - 11:00	Tea Break
11:00 - 12:00	Paper Presentations
BIO 189: Prediction of toxicity and pharmacological potential of selected spice compounds Riju A, Bioinformatics Centre, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut, Kerala, India Sithara K, Bioinformatics Centre, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut, Kerala, India Suja S. Nair, Bioinformatics Centre, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut, Kerala, India Eapen SJ, Bioinformatics Centre, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut, Kerala, India BIO 206: Evolving fragments to lead molecules Soumi Sengupta, Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India BIO 207: Random walk ranking guided by disease association networks for lung cancer biomarker discovery Tianxiao Huan, Life Science School, Shandong University, Shandong, China Xiaogang Wu, School of Informatics, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, USA & Indiana Center for Systems Biology and Personalized Medicine, Indianapolis, USA Zengliang Bai, Life Science School, Shandong University, Shandong, China Jake Y. Chen, School of Informatics, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, USA & Indiana Center for Systems Biology and Personalized Medicine, Indianapolis, USA
12:00 - 12:30	Lunch
Technical Session VI: Systems Biology Session Chair : Prof. Jake Chen (Director, Indiana Centre for Systems Biology and Personalized Medicine, IUPUI, USA)
12:30 - 13:15	Invited lecture: Dr. Pramod P. Wangiker (Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT, Bombay)
Topic: Genome Scale Metabolic Reconstruction and Metabolic Flux Analysis
13:15 - 14:35	Paper Presentations
BIO 145: A novel system for predicting plant protein kinase superfamily using machine learning methodology Mallika V, Plant Molecular Biology Division, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India Sivakumar KC, Bioinformatics Facility,Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India Soniya EV, Plant Molecular Biology Division, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India BIO 167: Combined classifier for unknown genome classification using chaos game representation features Vrinda V Nair, Government Engineering College, Thrissur, Kerala, India Achuthsankar S Nair, Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India BIO 174: Algebraic approach to optimal clone selection applied in metagenomic projects Mauricio E. Cantão, Department of Computer Science, University of São Paulo, Brazil Luciano V. de Araújo, School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, University of São Paulo, Brazil Eliana G. M. Lemos, Department of Technology, São Paulo State University, Brazil João E. Ferreira, Department of Computer Science, University of São Paulo, Brazil BIO 180: A novel measure for evaluating an ordered list: Application in microRNA target prediction Debarka Sengupta, Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Ujjwal Maulik, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India BIO 183: Human PolII promoter prediction by using nucleotide property composition features Wen-Lin Huang, Department of Management Information System, Chin Min Institute of Technology, Miaoli, Taiwan Chun-Wei Tung, Institute of Bioinformatics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan Shinn-Ying Ho, Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
14:35- 14:50	Tea Break
14:50 - 15:30	Paper Presentations
BIO 199: Comparative analysis of microsatellite detecting software: a significant variation in results and influence of parameters Suresh B. Mudunuri, Associate Professor, Dept. of CSE, Aditya Engineering College, Andhra Pradesh, India Allam Appa Rao, Vice-chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Andhra Pradesh, India S Pallamsetty, Professor, Dept. of CS & SE, Andhra University College of Engineering, Andhra Pradesh, India HA Nagarajaram, Scientist and Head, LCB, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India BIO 203: A prior knowledge based approach to infer gene regulatory networks Md. Mahmudul Hasan, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Nasimul Noman, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Hitoshi Iba, Dept. of Information and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo,Japan
15:45 - 16:45	Plenary Session
17:00	Visit to NIT Calicut Campus
Day 4: 18^th February, 2010 (Thursday)
Post Symposium Trip to Wayanad
Appendix I LIST OF POSTERS Date and Time of Poster Presentations: 16th February 2010, 11:00 – 11:40 Hrs BIO 103: Quantification and Segmentation of Progenitor Cells in Time-lapse Microscopy R.M. Suresh, Vice Principal, RMD Engineering College, Chennai, India N.Jayalakshmi, Assistant Professor, Velammal College of Management and Computer Studies, Chennai, India BIO 163: Finding motifs using harmony search Jyotshna Dongardive, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India Aarti Patil, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India Aditya Bir, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India Suruchi Jamkhedkar, Dept. of Life Sciences, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India Siby Abraham, Dept. of Maths and Statistics, G.N. Khalsa College, University of Mumbai, India BIO 165: DNA sequence representation methods G. Santhosh Kumar, Department of Computer Science, Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin, Kerala, India Shiji S.H, Department of Computer Science, Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin, Kerala, India BIO 171: Biclustering gene expression data using K-means binary PSO hybrid Shyama Das, Department of Computer Science, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, Kerala, India Sumam Mary Idicula, Department of Computer Science, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, Kerala, India BIO 191: Conserved orthology in mitochondrial genomes of distantly related nematodes Nima PL, Bioinformatics Centre, Indian Institute of Spices Research (IISR), Calicut, India Riju A, Bioinformatics Centre, Indian Institute of Spices Research (IISR), Calicut, India Reena N, Bioinformatics Centre, Indian Institute of Spices Research (IISR), Calicut, India Eapen SJ, Bioinformatics Centre, Indian Institute of Spices Research (IISR), Calicut, India BIO 195: Molecular evolution of a PR-5 protein gene in Zingiber species with contrasting breeding systems Geethu Elizabath Thomas, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India Aswati Nair R, National Institute of Technology-Calicut, Calicut, India Sabu M, University of Calicut, Calicut, India George Thomas, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India BIO 209: A fast bit-parallel multi-patterns string matching algorithm for biological sequences Rajesh Prasad, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India Suneeta Agarwal, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, MN-NIT, Allahabad, India Ishadutta Yadav, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, MN-NIT, Allahabad, India Bharat Singh, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, MN-NIT, Allahabad, India BIO 210: An integrated multistep prediction system based on wavelet filter analysis and improved instance based learning (IIBL) Pushpalatha M.P, Dept. of Computer Science and Engg., Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engg, Mysore , Karnataka, India Nalini N, Dept. of Information Science and Engg., Siddaganga Institue of Technology, Tumkur, Karnataka, India BIO 212: Machine learning support for kidney transplantation decision making Francisco Reinaldo, FEUP - Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, Portugal Md. Anishur Rahman, FEUP - Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, Portugal Carlos Fernandes Alves, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná - PUCPR, PostGraduate Programme in Health Technology – PPGTS, R. Imaculada Conceição,Brazil Andreia Malucelli, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná - PUCPR, PostGraduate Programme in Health Technology – PPGTS, R. Imaculada Conceição,Brazil Rui Camacho, LIAAD - INESC-Porto LA & FEUP - Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, Portugal

Organizing Institutes

National Institute of Technology Calicut, India

Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA