Conference is being held at Victoria, College, University of Toronto.
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*As of May 16, 2016. Subject to change without notice.
| WEDNESDAY – DAY 3 – May 18, 2016 | |||
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| 8:30 am | 6:00 pm | Registration Location: 1st Floor Foyer |
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| 9:00 am | 10:00 am | Keynote 4 MATHIEU BLANCHETTE Know thy ancestors to know thyself: Improving our understanding of the human genome using paleogenomics Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 10:00 am | 10:30 am | Coffee break Location: 1st Floor Foyer |
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| 10:30 am | 12:20 pm | Research Session 7 Location: Frye Auditorium |
Research Session 8 Location: VC 213 |
| 10:30 am | 11:00 am | TOPIC LEADER: Guillaume Bourque Genome analysis Location: Frye Auditorium |
TOPIC LEADER: Amy Caudy Metabolomics and Chemoinformatics Location: VC 213 |
| 11:00 am | 11:20 am | Paper: Zachary Stephens, Matthew Hudson, Liudmila Mainzer, Morgan Taschuk, Matthew Weber and Ravishankar Iyer Simulating Next-Generation Sequencing Datasets From Empirical Mutation and Sequencing Models Location: Frye Auditorium |
Paper: Miroslava Cuperlovic-Culf, Nandhakishore Rajagopalan, Dan Tulpan and Michele Loewen Metabolomics and Cheminformatics analysis guiding the Discovery of Antifungal Metabolites for Crop Protection Location: VC 213 |
| 11:20 am | 11:40 am | Paper: Daniel Sanchez-Taltavull, Parameswaran Ramachandran, Nelson Lau and Theodore Perkins Bayesian Correlation Analysis for Sequence Count Data Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 11:20 am | 11:35 am | Yin Lu, Yi-Cheng Tu and Feng Cheng A novel algorithm for analyzing drug-drug interactions from MEDLINE literature Location: VC 213 |
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| 11:35 am | 11:50 am | Zhaleh Safikhani, Benjamin Haibe-Kains, Kelsie Thu, Petr Smirinov, David Cescon and Mathieu Lupien Meta-analysis of large pharmacogenomics studies to develop isoform-based biomarkers predictive of response to targeted therapies Location: VC 213 |
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| 11:40 am | 11:55 am | Greg Gloor, Jean Megan Macklaim and Jia Wu CoDaSeq: compositional data analysis for high throughput sequencing data Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 11:50 am | 12:05 pm | Seyed Ali Madani Tonekaboni, Zhaleh Safikhani and Benjamin Haibe-Kains In-silico pipeline for tissue-specific drug combination discovery Location: VC 213 |
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| 11:55 am | 12:10 pm | Davide Chicco and Michael M. Hoffman Distal chromatin loop prediction with deep siamese neural networks Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 12:05 pm | 12:15 pm | Jiun Yen, Glenda Gillaspy and Ryan Senger A genome-scale algorithmic approach for metabolic engineering of plants |
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| 12:10 pm | 12:15 pm | Flash Talk: Musaddeque Ahmed, Haiyang Guo and He Housheng Integrative analysis for identification and functional prediction of long non-coding RNAs in cancer Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 12:15 pm | 12:20 pm | Flash Talk: Armin Rouhi, Janneke Wit and James Wasmuth Investigating the usefulness of long-read sequencing technologies on the study of large eukaryotic gene families Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 12:30 pm | 2:00 pm | Poster Session B with lunch Location: Alumni Hall |
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| 2:00 pm | 3:00 pm | Keynote 5 CHRISTINA LESLIE Decoding gene regulatory programs in cellular differentiation Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 3:00 pm | 3:30 pm | Coffee break Location: 1st Floor Foyer |
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| 3:30 pm | 5:30 pm | Workshop 7 Next generation sequencing Adam Rosebrock >>Sign up here<< Location: 115 |
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| 3:30 pm | 5:30 pm | Research Session 9 Location: Frye Auditorium |
Research Session 10 Location: VC 213 |
| 3:30 pm | 4:00 pm | TOPIC LEADER: Sushmita Roy Biological networks Location: Frye Auditorium |
TOPIC LEADER: Rob Beiko Metagenomics Location: VC 213 |
| 4:00 pm | 4:20 pm | Paper: Matthew O'Meara, Sara Ballouz, Brian Shoichet and Jesse Gillis Ligand similarity complements sequence, physical interaction, and co-expression for gene function prediction Location: Frye Auditorium |
Paper: Ruth G. Wong, Jia R. Wu and Gregory B. Gloor Expanding the UniFrac toolbox Location: VC 213 |
| 4:20 pm | 4:35 pm | Bundalovic-Torma and John Parkinson Biological Interaction Networks in Bacteria - Generation and Evolutionary Insights Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 4:20 pm | 4:40 pm | Paper: Ahmed Metwally, Yang Dai, Patricia Finn and David Perkins WEVOTE: Weighted Voting Taxonomic Identification Method of Microbial Sequences Location: VC 213 |
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| 4:35 pm | 4:50 pm | Li Zhu, Ying Ding, Cho-Yi Chen, Zhiguang Huo, Sunghwan Kim, Steffi Oesterreich and George Tseng MetaDCN: meta-analysis framework for differential coexpression network detection with an application in breast cancer Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 4:40 pm | 4:55 pm | Frederic Raymond, Maxime Déraspe, Sébastien Boisvert, Alexander Culley, Paul H. Roy, François Laviolette and Jacques Corbeil Ray Surveyor: phenetic comparison of genomes and its application in microbial evolution Location: VC 213 |
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| 4:50 pm | 5:05 pm | Lu Cheng and Mu Zhu Compositional Epistasis Detection Using A Few Prototype Disease Models Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 4:55 pm | 5:10 pm | Jean Megan Macklaim, Amy McMillan, Mark Sumarah, Jonathan Swann, Gregor Reid and Greg Gloor Insights into the metatranscriptome and metabolome of the vaginal microbiome Location: VC 213 |
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| 5:05 pm | 5:20 pm | Robin Haw Reactome Revolutions - Pathways and Networks Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 5:10 pm | 5:25 pm | Michael Hall, Jonathan Perrie and Robert Beiko Time-series clustering enables the exploration of temporal patterns in marker gene data Location: VC 213 |
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| 5:20 pm | 5:25 pm | Flash Talk: Bahram Samanfar, Andrew Schoenrock, Frank Dehne, Ashkan Golshani, Elroy Cober, Martin Charette and Steve Molnar PIPE (Protein-protein Interaction Prediction Engine): A computational approach for comprehensive soybean functional genomics Location: Frye Auditorium |
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| 5:30 pm | 6:00 pm | Free Time | |
| 6:00 pm | 9:00 pm | Banquet with Keynote 6 ALED EDWARDS Open science: From computational biology to the real world Location: Burwash Hall |
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