AlCoB 2018: call for participation

5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY


AlCoB 2018


Hong Kong


June 25-26, 2018


Co-organized by:


The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Department of Computing


Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)

Rovira i Virgili University


http://grammars.grlmc.com/AlCoB2018/

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PROGRAM


Monday, June 25


09:00 - 09:30    Registration


09:30 - 09:40    Opening


09:40 - 10:30    Tatsuya Akutsu. Algorithms for Analysis and Control of Boolean Networks - Invited lecture


10:30 - 11:00    Coffee break


11:00 - 12:15


Ricson Cheng, Matthew Dohlen, Chen Pekker, Gabriel Quiroz, Jincheng Wang, Ran Libeskind-Hadas and Yi-Chieh Wu. Reconciliation Feasibility of Non-binary Gene Trees under a Duplication-Loss-Coalescence Model


Andreas Dwi Maryanto Gunawan. Solving the Tree Containment Problem for Reticulation-visible Networks in Linear Time


Leo van Iersel, Remie Janssen, Mark Jones, Yukihiro Murakami and Norbert Zeh. Polynomial-time Algorithms for Phylogenetic Inference Problems


12:15 - 13:45    Lunch


13:45 - 14:35    Ben Raphael. Algorithms for Cancer Evolution - Invited lecture


14:35 - 14:50    Break and Group photo


14:50 - 16:05


Alexsandro Alexandrino, Carla Lintzmayer and Zanoni Dias. Approximation Algorithms for Sorting Permutations by Fragmentation-weighted Operations


Klairton Brito, Andre Rodrigues Oliveira, Ulisses Dias and Zanoni Dias. Heuristics for the Sorting Signed Permutations by Reversals and Transpositions Problem


Guilherme Miranda, Carla Negri Lintzmayer and Zanoni Dias. Sorting Permutations by Limited-size Operations


16:05 - 16:20    Coffee break


16:20 - 17:10    Poster presentations


17:15 - 19:15    Touristic visit


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Tuesday, June 26


09:00 - 09:50    Bin Ma. De Novo Protein Sequencing with Mass Spectrometry and Its Medical Applications - Invited lecture


09:50 - 10:20    Coffee break


10:20 - 11:35


Michael Sadovsky, Sergey Tsarev and Maria Senashova. Fast Algorithm for Vernier Search of Long Repeats in DNA Sequences with Bounded Error Density


Eugen Czeizler, Alexandru Popa and Victor Popescu. Fixed Parameter Algorithms and Hardness of Approximation Results for the Structural Target Controllability Problem


Chenqi Mou. Symbolic Detection of Steady States of Autonomous Differential Biological Systems by Transformation into Block Triangular Form


11:35 - 11:50    Break


11:50 - 12:40


Jordi Silvestre-Ryan and Ian Holmes. Consensus Decoding of Recurrent Neural Network Basecallers


Ezra B. Wijaya, Erwandy Lim, David Agustriawan, Chien-Hung Huang, Jeffrey J.P. Tsai and Ka-Lok Ng. Utilizing Imputation and Meta-analysis to Identify DNA-methylation-mediated MicroRNAs in Ovarian Cancer


12:40 - 12:50    Closing


12:50 -        Lunch

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