Objects in Bio- & Chem-Informatics 2001 (OiBC-2001)

Conference Agenda


Monday 9 July

08:30 Welcome
08:50 Genomic Knowledge Platform: an Object-Oriented Architecture Integrating Information Across Sequence, Expression, Genetics, and Other Biological Data Sources
Frank Russo, Greg Pelts, Ed Evans, Robert Shank, and Lee Grover. Incyte Genomics
09:30 OpenMMS: An Ontology Driven Architecture for Macromolecular Structure
Douglas S. Greer1, John Westbrook2, Philip Bourne1. 1University of California, San Diego, 2Rutgers University
10:10 Break
10:40 The New Biology and Terascale Computing
Grant Heffelfinger. Sandia National Laboratory
11:20 A Marketplace for Ontologies and Ontology-Based Tools and Applications in the Life Sciences
Robin McEntire1, Carole Goble2, Robert Stevens2, Eric Neumann3, Paula Matuszek1, Terence Critchlow4, Peter Tarczy-Hornoch5. 1GlaxoSmithKline, 2University of Manchester, 3Beyond Genomics, 4Lawrence Livermore National Lab, 5University of Washington
12:00 Lunch and Poster Viewing
13:30 Integration of Microarray Data With and Without Standards
Jack Pollard and Nat Goodman. 3rd Millennium
14:10 Panel Discussion: Funding R&D in Bio- & Chem-Informatics
Richard Morris1, Kimberly Rasar2, Sylvia Spengler3. 1NIAID, NIH, 2DOE, 3NSF
14:50 Poster Session (Authors "manning" posters) and Refreshments
15:50 ROI of Implementing and Using an OMG Adopted Technology
Randy Spratt. McKesson HBOC
16:30 Re-usable components for structural bioinformatics
Michel F. Sanner. Molecular Graphics Laboratory, Scripps Research Institute
17:00 Design of E-Cell 3: Object-based Cell Simulation Environment
Kouichi Takahashi1,2, Takeshi Sakurada1,2, Masayuki Okayama1,3, Motohiro Yoneda1,3, Yusuke Saito1,2, Masaru Tomita1,3. 1Institute for Advanced Biosciences, 2Graduate School of Media and Governance, 3Department of Environmental Information, Keio University
17:30 Distributed and Parallel Solution of Complex Biological Models
G. Scott Lett and Haoyu Yu. Physiome Sciences
18:00 Use of Java and XML in an Architecture for Genomic Annotation Visualization and Exchange (AGAVE)
Kyle Hart, Brian King, Ronghua Chen, Archie Russell, Edward Kiruluta. Doubletwist
18:30 Poster Viewing
19:00 Dinner (on your own)

Tuesday 10 July

08:30 Future Trends in Accessing Public BioInformation Resources - BioCorba, OpenBSA and Bio-Grid Technologies
Martin Senger. European Bioinformatics Institute
09:10 Piper: Peer-to-Peer Distribution of Scientific Programs and Data-Flow
J.W. Bizzaro, Jarl van Katwijk, Jean-Marc Valin, Brad Chapman, Dominic Letourneau, Gary Van Domselaar and Deanne Taylor. Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Lowell
09:50 Break
10:20 The Informatics Interoperable Infrastructure Consortium (I3C)
Tim Clark. Millennium Pharmaceuticals
10:50 ChemSymphony Pro - Advanced components for life sciences
Lewis Jardine and Anatoli Krassavine. NetGenics
11:20 Model Driven Architecture: Architecting the future at OMG
Andrew Watson. Object Management Group
12:00 Lunch
13:00 GeneCardsTM 3.0: An Object-Oriented Approach
Marilyn Safran2, Shai Shen-Orr3, Irina Solomon2, Inga Peter1,2, Vered Chalifa-Caspi2, and Doron Lancet1,4. 1Departments of Molecular Genetics, 2Biological Services (Bioinformatics Unit), 3Molecular Cell Biology, and the 4Crown Human Genome Center, the Weizmann Institute of Science
13:40 Developing a Flexible J2EE Based Architecture for the Querying, Retrieval and Visualisation of Gene Expression Information
John Boyle, Life Science Informatics Solutions
14:20 Ensembl: an automated system for eukaryotic genome annotation
A. Kaprzyk1, A. Stabenau1, M. Clamp2, E. Mongin1, E. Stupka1, E. Birney1. 1European Bioinformatics Institute, 2Sanger Centre
15:00 Break
15:30 The OMG Life Sciences Research Domain Task Force
David Benton1, Karl Konnerth2, Scott Markel3. 1GlaxoSmithKline, 2Incyte Genomics, 3NetGenics
16:00 The Usability Factor - The Key to Acceptance
Jeroen Coppieters1, Deborah Garcia1, Tad Harrison2, Simon White1. 1Synomics, 2Wyeth Ayerst Research
16:30 BioInformatics Software Resource (BISR), Building the Technical Infrastructure for Bioinformatics
T. N. Bhat, Michael Tung, and Gary Gilliland. Biotechnology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
17:00 The CCPN project - a common data model for macromolecular NMR spectroscopy
Rasmus H. Fogh1, John Ionides2, Wayne Boucher3, Ernest Laue4. 1Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 2EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, 3Azara Plc, 4University of Cambridge
17:30 Searching and Serving XML Objects
David Hansen, Marco Donizelli, Jesko Hars and Thure Etzold. LION Bioscience
18:00 Adjourn


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