Program
DIMACS Workshop on Sequence Alignment
November 10 - 12, 1994
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
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{\large \bf DIMACS Computational Molecular Biology Year}
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{\Large SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT WORKSHOP-PROGRAM}
DIMACS - Princeton University
November 10 -- 12, 1994
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&{\bf Program Committee:}\\
& $\bullet$ S. Altschul (NIH)
& $\bullet$ A. Apostolico (Padova and Purdue, Co-Chair)
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&$\bullet$ D. Brutlag (Stanford)
& $\bullet$ R. Doolittle (UCSD, Co-Chair) \\
&$\bullet$ M. Farach (Rutgers and DIMACS)
& $\bullet$ R. Giancarlo (Bell and DIMACS, Scientific Secretary)\\
&$\bullet$ P. Green (Washington U.)&$\bullet$ D. Gusfield (UCD)\\
&$\bullet$ S. Henikoff (HHMI-FHCRC)&$\bullet$ J. Kececioglu (U. of Georgia)\\
&$\bullet$ D. Lipman (NIH)&$\bullet$ W. Miller (PennState)\\
&$\bullet$ W. Pearson (Virginia)&$\bullet$ P. Pevzner (PennState)\\
&$\bullet$ D. Sankoff (Montreal)&$\bullet$ J. Schmidt (Polytechnic U.)\\
&$\bullet$ G. Stormo (Colorado)&$\bullet$ M. Vingron (GMD)\\
&$\bullet$ M. Waterman (USC)\\
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For logistic information and registration, please contact Sandy Barbu
(barbu@cs.princeton.edu).
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\item[{\bf Thursday, November 10}] - E-Quad Building (Olden Street)
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\item[8:00 a.m.] Registration-Continental Breakfast (Faculty Lounge, Room 225 E-Quad)
\item[9:00 a.m.] Opening Session (Convocation Room)
Fred Roberts, Rutgers Department of Mathematics and DIMACS,
Chair of Special Year;
Andrew Yao, Department of Computer Science and Co-Director of DIMACS;
James Wei, Dean of \hfil\break Engineering School, Princeton University.
\item[9:30 a.m.] Foreword: Structure and Goals of the Scientific Program,
Alberto Apostolico, Purdue CS Dept. and Padova Univ. D.E.I,
Workshop Co-Chair
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\item[{\bf Session 1}] (Chair: D. Gusfield)
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\item[10:00 a.m.] M. Waterman: "Sequence Alignment: The First 15 Years"
\item[11:00 a.m.] Coffee Break (Faculty Lounge)
\item[11:30 a.m.] D. Sankoff: "Phylogenetic Motivation for Multiple Alignment"
\item[12:30] Lunch (Faculty Lounge)
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\item[{\bf Session 2}] (Chair: R. Giancarlo)
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\item[2:00 p.m.] G. Stormo: "Using Thermodynamic Considerations as a
Guide in Multiple Alignments"
\item[3:00 p.m.] W. Pearson: "Comparing Sequence Comparison Algorithms -
is Optimal Best?"
\item[4:00 p.m.] Coffee Break (Faculty Lounge)
\item[4:30 p.m.] Contributed Talks
\item[] M. Vingron and Arndt von Haesler, German National Research Center
for Computer Science and Dept. of Zoology, University of Munich:
"Towards Integration of Multiple Alignment and Phylogenetic Tree
Construction"
\item[] P. Agarwal and D. J. States, Institute for Biomedical Computing,
Washington University:
"Computational Techniques for Repeat Analysis of DNA Sequences"
\item[] V. Fischetti, T.C. Ip and J. Schmidt, The Rockefeller University
and Polytechnic University:
"Matching Coiled-coil Proteins as Two Dimensional Structures"
\item[] Z. Zhang and W. Miller, Dept. of Computer Science, Penn State:
"Enumerating Aligned Sequence Blocks"
\item[7:00 p.m.] Reception (Eisenhart Lounge, top of Fine Tower, Fine Hall,
Washington Road \& Ivy Lane)
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\item[{\bf Friday, November 11}] (Liberation Hall, Third World Center,
corner of Olden \& Prospect)
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\item[8:30 a.m.] Continental Breakfast (Liberation Hall)
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\item[{\bf Session 3}] (Chair: M. Farach)
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\item[9:00 a.m.] S. Altschul: "The Statistics of Pairwise Sequence Comparison
and the Choice of Scoring Systems"
\item[10:00 a.m.] S. Henikoff: "Empirical Evaluation of Scoring in Sequence
Alignment"
\item[11:00 a.m.] Coffee Break (Liberation Hall)
\item[11:30 a.m.] J. Schmidt "Mathematical Models for Sequence Comparison"
\item[12:30] Lunch (Liberation Hall)
\item[{\bf Session 4}] (Chair: M. Waterman)
\item[2:00 p.m.] J. Kececioglu: "Exact Algorithms for Multiple Sequence Alignment"
\item[3:00 p.m.] P. Pevzner: "Genomic Sequence Comparison"
\item[4:00 p.m.] Coffee Break (Liberation Hall)
\item[4:30 p.m.] Contributed Talks
\item[] T. Jiang, E.L. Lawler and L. Wang, Depts. of Computer Science and
Engineering, McMaster University and UC Berkeley:
"Aligning Sequences via an Evolutionary Tree: Complexity and
Approximation"
\item[5:30 p.m.] Poster Session and Software Demonstration (CS Auditorium)
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\item[{\bf Saturday, November 12}] (Liberation Hall, Third World Center,
corner of Olden \& Prospect)
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\item[8:30 a.m.] Continental Breakfast (Liberation Hall)
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\item[{\bf Session 5}] (Chair: A. Apostolico)
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\item[9:00 a.m.] W. Miller: "Some Pathways for Applying Computer Science to
Molecular Biology".
\item[10:00 a.m.] Contributed Talks
\item[] J. Thompson, T. Gibson and D. Higgins, European Molecular
Biology Lab. and European Bioinformatics Lab.:
"Parameter Choice in Progressive Multiple Sequence Alignment"
\item[] G. Benson and M.S. Waterman, Dept. of Mathematics and Dept. of
Molecular Biology, University of Southern California:
"On Finding Homologous Regions in a Set of Protein Sequences"
\item[11:00] Coffee Break (Liberation Hall)
\item[11:30 a.m.] M. Vingron: "Multiple Sequence Comparison and Consistency on
Multipartite Graphs".
\item[12:30] Farewell
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