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Award Winners

Links within this page: Ian Lawson Van Toch Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper | RCSB PDB Poster Prize | Special Session: Representation learning in biology | Special Session: Emerging gain-of-function mutations and multi-omics network biology | Bio-Ontologies COSI – Best Talk Award | Bio-Ontologies COSI – Best Poster Award | BioVis COSI – Best Abstract | BioVis COSI – Test-of-Time Award | CAMDA COSI – Best Talk Awards | CAMDA COSI – Best Poster Award | CompMS COSI – Best Talk Award | CompMS COSI – Best Poster Award | EvolCompGen COSI - Best Talk Award | EvolCompGen COSI - Best Poster Award | iRNA COSI – Best Poster Award | NetBio COSI – Best Talk Award | NetBio COSI – Best Poster Award | SysMod COSI - Best Poster Awards | TransMed COSI Best Oral Presentation Awards | TransMed COSI Best Poster Awards

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Ian Lawson Van Toch Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper

Jamshed Khan, University of Meryland
Cuttlefish: Fast, parallel, and low-memory compaction of de Bruijn graphs from large-scale genome collections  

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RCSB and PDB Poster Prize

Tsukasa Nakamura, JSPS(PD)/Tohoku University
Towards protein interface prediction using SE(3)-Transformer

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Special Session: Representation learning in biology

First Prize

Hideki Yamaguchi, The University of Tokyo
Evotuning protocols for Transformer-based variant effect prediction on multi-domain proteins  

Second Prize

Paulina Szymczak, Uniwersytet Warszawski
HydrAMP: a deep generative model for antimicrobial peptide discovery

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Special Session: Emerging gain-of-function mutations and multi-omics network biology

Most Innovative Talk

Trey Ideket, University of California, San Diego
Building the Mind of Cancer  

Most Provocatice Talk

Christopher Burge, MIT
Hunting for functional genetic variants in human 3' UTR

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Bio-Ontologies COSI – Best Talk Award

Tiago Lubiana, University of Sao Paulo
Wikidata for 5-star Linked Open Databases: a case study of PanglaoDB

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Bio-Ontologies COSI – Best Poster Award

Sanya Taneja, University of Pittsburgh
Designing potential extensions from G-SRS to ChEBI to identify natural product-drug interactions

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BioVis COSI – Best Abstract

First Prize

Grammer-Based Interactive Visualization of Genomics Data
Sehi L'Yi, Qianwen Wang, Fritz Lekschas, and Nils Gehlenborg  

Honourable Mention

Loon: Using Exemplars to Visualize Large Scale Microscopy Data
Devin Lange, Eddie Polacno, Robert Judson-Torres, Thomas Zangle, and Alexander Lex

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BioVis COSI – Test-of-Time Award

RuleBender: Integrated visualization for biochemical rule-based modeling
Adam M Smith, Wen Xu, Yao Sun, James R Faeder, G. Elisabeta Marai

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CAMDA COSI – Best Talk Award

First Prize

Gonghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences & Massachusetts Gneral Hospital
Targeting the hsot response in COVID-19 by integeration of metabolic modeling and cheminformatics  

Second Place

Xianghao Zhan, Stanford University
Filter Drug-induced Liver Injury (DILI) Literature with Natural Langauage Processing and Ensemble Learning  

Third Place

Dimatar Vassilev, Sofia University
Discovering relationship between bacteriophages and antimicrobial resistance

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CompMS COSI – Best Talk Award

Proteomics

Ayse Dincer
Inferring peptide coefficients from quantitative mass spectrometery data

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CompMS COSI – Best Poster Award

Proteomics

Sven Giese
millipede - A Deep Learning Library to Predict the Entire Mass Spectrometery Life Cycle of Proteins and Peptide

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EvolCompGen COSI - Best Talk Award

First Prize

Elise Parey
Combining synteny and sequence-based approaches to investigate genome evolution after polyploidization

Honourable Mentions

Day 1: Salvatore Cosentino
SonicParanoid2: Machine Learning-Driven Integration of Bidirectional Best Hit and Protein Domain Analysis for Faster and More Accurate Othology

Day 2: Conor Walker
Accurate detection of interspecific positive selection using convolutional neural networks

Day 3: Matteo Delabre
Super-Reconciliation with Horizontal Gene Transfers

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EvolCompGen COSI - Best Poster Award

First Prize

Vignesh Sridhar, Karn Jongnarangsin, Arjun Krishnan, and Janani Ravi
Developing a machine learning approach to determine gene/protein features to classify bacterial groups  

Honourable Mention

Elliot Majlessi, Neal Hammer, and Janani Ravi
Evolution of Staphylococcal Antibiotic Resistance Systems Across Gram-Positive Bacteria

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iRNA COSI – Best Poster Award

David Wang, University of Pennsylvania
Alternative Splicing Based Classification of Heterogeneous Cancers Reveals Novel Disease Subtypes

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NetBio COSI – Best Talk Award

Olga Lazareva, Technical University of Munich
On the limits of active module identification

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NetBio COSI – Best poster Award

Lisa Rottjers, KU Leuven
Fast and flexible analysis of linked microbiome data with mako

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SysMod COSI - Best Poster Awards

First Prize

Automated whole-cell modeling from genomic sequence and multi-omics data
Kazunari Kaizu, Kozo Nishida, and Koichi Takashi

An agent-based model of tumour-associated macrophage differentiation in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
Nina Verstraete, Malvina Marku, Helene Arduin, Marcin Domagal, Jean Jacques Fournie, Loic Ysebaert, Mary Poupot, and Vera Pancaldi  

Second Prize

Boolean Network Inference at Different Levels of Logical Complexity
Eline S. van Mantgem, Gunnar W. Klau, and Heinrich Heine  

Third Prize

Simulating drug effects on whole-cell level simulation
Bence Keomley-Horvath, Attila Czikasz-Nagy, Istvan Reguly, and Pazmany Peter

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TransMed COSI Best Oral Presentation Awards

Marius Herr, University Hospital Tubingen & University of Tubingen
Bringing the algorithms to the Data - Secure Distributed Medical Analytics using the Personal Health Train

Riya Gupta, Khatri Labs, Stanford University
Formulating a Gene Signature for Diagnosis of Autoimmune and Infectious Diseases

Yun Hao, University of Pannsylvania
A novel feature selection pipeline for identifying predictive targets associated with drug toxicity

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TransMed COSI Best Poster Awards

Juan Jenao, Institute of Computational Biology, Biology Helmholtz-Zentrum Munchen
Identifying Dysfunctional Mechanisms of Pancreas-residing T-cells in Islet Autoimmunity Through Single cell Immune Profiling

Mark Wappett, Queens University
SynLeGG; analysis and visualization of multiomics data for discovery of cancer 'Achilles Heels' and gene function relationships

Hammad Iqbal, Precision Medicine Lab
The wearables for wellness pilot: data-enabled primary care in an LMIC context

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