To provide focus for the very broad area of biological computing, PSB is organized into a series of specific sessions. Each session will involve both formal research presentations and open discussion groups. The 1998 PSB sessions are:
Gregory Petsko, of Brandeis University, will deliver the keynote lecture: Structural Biology and Biocomputing: A Marriage Made in Heaven or in the Other Place?
Computational methods in the monitoring, analysis, and modeling of RNA and protein expression; gene regulatory network models and new methods of acquiring and analyzing large-scale gene expression data.
Contact:
Roland Somogyi
Phone: +1 (301) 402-1407
Fax: +1 (301) 402-1565
Email: rolands@helix.nih.gov
Tools and techniques to assist scientists in evaluating, absorbing, navigating, and correlating sequence, structural, and functional data through visualization and user interaction.
Contact:
Eileen Kraemer
Phone: +1 (314) 935-6621
Fax: +1 (314) 935-7302
Email: eileen@cs.wustl.edu
Any aspect of computational gene finding, particularly how to fully utilize the available EST/protein sequences and biological information, statistical and mathematical tools to automate gene identification and annotation in large-scale genomic sequences.
Contact:
Ying Xu
Phone: +1 (423) 574-7263
Fax: +1 (423) 574-7860
Email: xyn@@ornl.gov
State-of-the-art molecular modeling approaches which aid in small molecular and structure-based drug design and protein engineering.
Contact:
Terry Lybrand
Phone: +1 (206) 685-1515
Fax: +1 (206) 616-4387
E-mail: lybrand@proteus.bioeng.washington.edu
All aspects of protein structure prediction, with emphasis on approaches that lead to testable protein structure predictions, and experimental results across a large diverse set of proteins.
Contact:
Richard Lathrop
Phone: +1 (714) 824-4021
Fax: +1 (714) 824-4056
Email: rickl@ics.uci.edu
Computational strategies to address the "structure-function" problem, particularly the interface between automated structural analysis, evolutionary change and biological insight.
Contact:
Patricia Babbitt
Phone: +1 (415) 476-3784
Fax: +1 (415) 476-0688
email: babbitt@cgl.ucsf.edu
Both artificial and naturally occurring computations in which biological macromolecules act as computational elements.
Contact:
Tom Head
Phone: +1 (607) 777-2278
Fax: +1 (607) 777-2450
Email: Tom@Math.Binghamton.edu
Approaches to biological problems using notions of information or complexity, including methods such as Algorithmic Probability, Minimum Message Length and Minimum Description Length. Two possible applications are (e.g.) protein folding and biological information processing.
Contact:
David Dowe
Phone: +61 3 9905-5776
Fax: +61 3 9905-5146
Email: dld@cs.monash.edu.au
Computer and algorithmic methods that result in more intelligent, interconnected and accessible molecular biological databases.
Contact:
Dmitrij Frishman
Phone: +49 (89) 8578-2664
Fax: +49 (89) 8578-2655
Email: frishman@mips.biochem.mpg.de
Collaboration and cooperation to create a shared biological information infrastructure across the Pacific Rim nations and beyond, that will guarantee a quality of service to the users of our biocomputing and bioinformatics resources. Of particular emphasis in this session is how to transfer the technology to research organizations in developing nations which find difficulty in accessing biocomputing and bioinformatics services.
Contact:
Tin Wee Tan
Phone: +65 772-6490
Fax: +65 872-6205
Email: tinwee@bic.nus.sg
Norma Belfer
PSB Conference Coordinator
UCSF Computer Graphics Laboratory
Box 0446
513 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, California 94143-0446
USA
email: psb@cgl.ucsf.edu
fax: +1 (415) 476-0688
tel: +1 (415) 476-5128