In-Silico Analysis of Proteins

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Swiss-Prot

July 30 - August 04, 2006 : Fortaleza, Brazil

Sunday July 30

19:30 - 21:30 - Welcome cocktail at Oasis Atlantico Imperial

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Monday July 31

08:00 - 09:30 - Registration
09:30 - 10:30 - Keynote address - Amos Bairoch "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...the next 20 years"
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10:30 - 11:00 - Kenta Nakai "Prediction of subcellular localization of proteins: past, present and future"
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11:00 - 11:30 - COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:00 - Des Higgins "Multiple alignments and multivariate analysis"
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12:00 - 12:30 - Owen White "Sybil: Comparative Analysis System. Gemina: Epidemiological Resource"
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12:30 - 14:00 - LUNCH
14:00 - 14:30 - Takashi Gojobori "A long shot of human protein world in genome network- An example: the evolutionary process of human nervous system-specific genes"
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14:30 - 15:00 - Ioannis Xenarios "Modeling Biology: From experimental data to predictive models"
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15:00 - 15:30 - Cedric Notredame "Integrating biological information in multiple sequence alignments"
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15:30 - 17:00 - COFFEE BREAK + POSTER SESSION I
17:00 - 17:30 - Anne Estreicher "UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot: Questions, Answers and a few Tips"
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17:30 - 17:45 - Ernest Feytmans "The Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)"
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17:45 - 18:15 - Antoine Danchin "Symplectic biology: lessons from microbes"
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Tuesday August 01

08:30 - 09:00 - Registration
09:05 - 09:35 - Torsten Schwede "SWISS-MODEL: Giving the proteome a third dimension"
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09:40 - 10:10 - Janet Thornton "MACiE: A database of enzyme reaction mechanisms"
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10:15 - 10:45 - Antoine Danchin "Coping with cold and aging: lessons from the genome of Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis"
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10:45 - 11:15 - COFFEE BREAK
11:15 - 11:45 - Barend Mons "CADANS-P: A Computer Assisted Distributed Annotation Service for proteins""
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11:50 - 12:20 - Jack Leunissen "PROREPEAT: A comprehensive directory of exact tandem repeats in proteins"
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12:30 - 13:30 - LUNCH
13:30 - 14:00 - Steven Brenner "Reliable statistical inference of protein molecular function using phylogenetic principles"
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14:00 - 14:15 - Ron Appel (for Nasri Nahas) "GeneBio and Swiss-Prot - a Love Story in 3 Acts"
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14:15 - 14:45 - Rolf Apweiler "UniProt and beyond: Integrated database infrastructure for the Life Sciences"
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15:00 - 19:00 - Lounge Beach with Brazilian drinks, snacks and music - Praia do Futuro

Last modified on August 09, 2007 at 11:03 PM

Wednesday August 02

08:30 - 09:00 - Registration
09:00 - 09:30 - Christopher Southan "The yoyo has stopped - reviewing the evidence for a low basal human protein number"
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09:30 - 10:00 - William Pearson "From sequences to science - new perspectives on protein sequences and structures"
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10:00 - 10:30 - COFFEE BREAK
10:30 - 11:00 - Søren Brunak "Understanding systems and compartments by data integration"
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11:00 - 11:30 - Peer Bork "Predicting biological function at different scales"
11:30 - 12:00 - Soshana Wodak "From high throughput pull-downs to protein complexes: building a model of the protein landscape in yeast"
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12:00 - 13:30 - LUNCH
13:30 - 14:00 - Rich Roberts "Annotating restriction and modification enzyme genes by experiment and computation "
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14:00 - 14:30 - Burkhard Rost "Evolution teaches protein function prediction"
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14:30 - 15:00 - Judith Blake "Promise and progress on BioOntologies for biomedical research"
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15:00 - 16:30 - COFFEE BREAK - POSTER SESSION II
16:30 - 17:00 - Brigitte Boeckmann "Swiss-Prot Tutorial"
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17:00 - 17:15 - Janet Thornton "The European Bioinformatics Institute"
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17:15 - 17:45 - Kenneth Rudd "EcoGene 2.0, an open source relational model organism database for E. coli at ecogene.org"
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20:00 - 24:00 - GALA DINNER

Last modified on September 10, 2007 at 10:08 AM

Thursday August 03

08:00 - 09:00 - Registration
09:00 - 09:30 - Christine Orengo "Exploiting structural and comparative genomics to reveal protein functions"
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09:30 - 10:00 - Manuel Peitsch "Ultralink: a new technology for contextual hyperlinking of Drug Discovery information"
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10:00 - 10:30 - Julio Collado-Vides "A historical account of RegulonDB"
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10:30 - 11:00 - COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 11:30 - Daniel Kahn "Protein domain families and protein innovation"
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11:30 - 12:00 - Joel Sussman "Structural bioinformatics from the 10th to the 20th anniversary of Swiss-Prot"
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12:00 - 12:30 - Ron Appel "Swiss-Prot and PIG: 20 years of fruitful collaboration"
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12:30 - 14:00 - LUNCH
13:30 - 13:45 - Special Brazilian session - Claudia Monteiro-Vitorello "Grupo Swiss-Prot Brasil: estado da arte e oportunidades futuras"
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14:00 - 14:30 - Victor Jongeneel "Bioinformatics in Switzerland: the last 20 years"
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14:30 - 15:00 - Chris Sander "Specificity entropy method to predict functional residues in proteins"
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15:00 - 15:15 - Poster presentation
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15:15 - 15:30 - Best poster awards
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15:30 - 16:00 - Phillip Bucher "Comparative analysis of promoter sequences: The discovery of the Pribnow box and what we have learned since then"
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16:00 - 16:30 - COFFEE BREAK
16:30 - 17:00 - Matthew Cockerill "Making research finding visible - the evolution of the scientific paper"
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17:00 - 17:30 - Lionel Binns "The fog of war? The fog of data"
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17:30 - 18:00 - Michael Gribskov "Evolution of the protein kinase family"
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Last modified on August 09, 2007 at 11:25 PM

Friday August 04

08:30 - 09:00 - Registration
09:00 - 09:00 - Alex Bateman "10 years of Pfam"
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09:30 - 10:00 - Philip Bourne "The RCSB PDB - Teaching an old dog new tricks"
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10:00 - 10:30 - Michael Ashburner "On the need and utility of ontologies"
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10:30 - 11:00 - Cathy Wu "The Protein Information Resource (PIR) for functional annotation: Protein family classification and literature mining"
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11:00 - 11:30 - COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:00 - Winston Hide "Divining the organizing principle"
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12:00 - 12:30 - Ewan Birney "Ensembl: Going beyond A,T,G and C for the human genome"
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12:30 - 13:00 - CLOSING REMARKS - Amos Bairoch
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Last modified on August 09, 2007 at 10:43 PM