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Program for AFP/CAFA 2011 July 15-16 2011, Vienna


Time

Speaker

Title

Day 1



9:00-9:10


Opening remarks

9:10-9:50

Keynote: Janet Thornton

Enzyme Reactions: Automated approaches for Classification and Searching

9:50-10:10

Yiannis Kourmpetis

Network based protein function prediction using Bayesian Markov Random Fields

10:10-10:30

Tobias Hamp

Nearest-Neighbor Approaches to Predict Protein Function by Homology Inference Alone

10:30-11:00

Break

11:00-11:20

Jesse Gillis

A Gene Function Prediction Competition Post-mortem

11:20-11:40

Meghana Chitale

Function Prediction for Systems Level: Functional Coherence of Protein Groups and Identification of Missing Genes

11:40-12:00

Yanay Ofran

Conservation of Protein Function is Reflected More by Short Sequence Motifs than by Sequence Similarity

12:00-12:20

Iddo Friedberg

Context based function prediction in metagenomic data

12:20-1:30

Lunch

1:30-2:10

Keynote: David Jones

Protein function prediction by massive integration of evolutionary analyses and multiple data sources

2:10-2:50

Lightning talks

Hai Fang, Aaron Wong,Jeffrey Yunes, Mary Jo Ondrechen

2:50-4:00

Break & Poster Session

4:00-4:20

Mark Wass

3DLigandSite: Predicting ligand binding sites using similar structures

4:20-4:40

Patrik Koskinen

PANNZER - A high- throughput tool for functional annotation

4:40-5:00

Olivier Lichtarge

Integrative Approaches to Function Prediction: Case Controls

5:00-5:40

Keynote: Amos Bairoch

TBA





Time

Speaker

Title

Day 2



8:30-8:50

Iddo Friedberg

Introduction to CAFA

8:50-9:15

Predrag Radivojac

CAFA Assessment I

9:15-9:40

Sean Mooney

CAFA Assessment II

9:40-10:00

Artem Sokolov

Combining Heterogeneous Data Sources for Protein Function Prediction

10:00-10:20

Christine Orengo

TBA

10:20-10:45

Break

10:45-11:15

Lightning talks:

Hagit Shatkay, Michael Tress, Shaneka Simmons

11:15-1:30

Lunch and poster session

1:30-2:20

Panel Discussion "The future of CAFA"

Amos Bairoch, Steven E. Brenner, Simon Kasif and Yanay Ofran

2:20-2:40

CAFA talk

TBA

2:40-3:00

CAFA talk

TBA

3:00-3:20

Maria Martin

Automatic Annotation in UniProtKB

3:20-4:00

Break

4:00-4:20

Nemanja Djuric

Protein Function Prediction by Integrating Different Data Sources

4:20-4:40

Trevor Newell

Protein Sequence Annotation Using Classificatory Decomposition

4:40-5:00

Wyatt Clark

Testing the ortholog conjecture with comparative functional genomic data from mammals

5:00-5:20

Ian Holmes

Continuous-time Markov chains for evolution of ontology term associations

5:20-5:30

CAFA AWARDS

5:30-6:10

Keynote: Simon Kasif

Computational Bridges to Experiments (COMBREX): an Active Learning Perspective