Biotechnology Computing Minitracks


COMPUTER TOOLS FOR MOLECULAR MODELING

Coordinators: Teri E. Klein and Mark C. Surles

BIO 1 Data Representations
€ New Hashing Techniques and Their Application to a Protein Structure Database System,
T. Akutsu, K. Onizuka, and M. Ishikawa

€ Design and Use of a Software Framework to Obtain Information Derived from Macromo
lecular Structure Data, I.N. Shindyalov, W. Chang, J.A. Cooper, and P.E. Bourne

€ Knowledge Representation Tools for Molecular Scene Analysis, J. Glasgow, S. Fortier
D. Conklin, F. Allen, and L. Leherte

BIO 2 Drug Design Tools
€ Dataflow Processing in a Global Networked Context: A Solution for the Computational
Methods Pool Management Problem, W-D. Ihlenfeldt, Y. Takahashi, and H. Abe

€ Computer-Aided Design of Crystalline Drugs, A.V. Dzyabchenko and V. Agafonov

€ Intervals and the Deduction of Drug Binding Site Models, G.M. Crippen

BIO 3 Geometrical Representations
€ Measuring Proteins and Voids in Proteins, H. Edelsbrunner, M. Facello, P. Fu, and
J. Liang

€ Mapping Volumetric Properties on Molecular Surfaces in Real-Time, M. Teschner and
C.Henn

€ New Man-Machine Communication Strategies in Molecular Modelling, J. Brickmann,
W. Heiden, H. Vollhardt, and C-D. Zachmann

BIO 4 Open Discussion

PROJECT-ORIENTED DATABASES AND KNOWLEDGE BASES IN GENOME RESEARCH

Coordinator: Toshihisa Takagi

BIO 5 Map Databases
€ Visualization and Database Tools for YAC and Cosmid Contig Construction,
S.W. Thomas, E.A. Rundensteiner, and A.J. Lee

€ A Database System for Constructing, Integrating, and Displaying Physical Maps of
Chromosome 19, T. Slezak, M. Wagner, M. Yeh, L. Ashworth, D. Nelson, D. Ow,
E. Branscomb, and A. Carrano

€ A Model for Comparing Genomic Restriction Maps, D.M. Platt and T.I. Dix

BIO 6 Data Modelling
€ A Graph-Theoretic Data Model for Genome Mapping Databases, M. Graves,
E.R. Bergeman, and C.B. Lawrence
€ Genetic Epidemiology, Parallel Algorithms, and Workstation Networks,
R.D. Chamberlain, M.A. Franklin, G.D. Peterson, and M.A. Province

BIO 7 Gene Expression
€ Data Representation in the TRRD_A Databse of Transaction Regulatory Regions of the Eukaryotic Genomes, O.V. Kel, A. G. Romachento, A. E. Kel, A. N. Naumochkin, and N. A. Kolchanov

€ Implementationm and Testing of an Automated Est Processing and Similarity Analysis System, E. Shoop, E. Chi, J. Carlis, P. Bieganski, J. Riedl, N. Dalton, T. Newman, and E. Retzel

€ A Database for Globin Gene Expression Data, W. Miller, A. El Sherbini, J. Peck, C. Riemer, S. Schwartz, N. Stojanovic, and R. Hardison

Bio 8 Knowledge Discovery & Open Discussion
€ Knlwledge Discovery in a Genetic Database: The MINOS System, H. Ripoche and J. Sallantin

Open Discussion


STOCHASTIC MODELS AND GRAMMARS FOR BIOINFORMATIONS


Coordinators: Kiyoshi Asai and Hidetoshi Tanaka

BIO 9 Stochastic Modelling I
€ Parameterization Studies of Hidden Markov Models Representing Highly Divergent Protein Sequences, M. A. McClure and R. Raman

€ Molecular Evolutionary Phylogenetic Trees Based on Minimum Description Length Principle, F. Ren, H. Tanaka, N. Fukuda, and T. Gojobori

BIO 10 Stochastic Modelling II
€ Stochastic Assembly of Conting Restriction Maps, D. M. Platt and T. I. Dix

€ A Combination of a Functional Motif Model and a Structural Motif Model for a Database Validation, M. Asogawa, y. Fujiwara, and A. Konagaya

BIO 11 Stochastic Modelling Open Discussion


COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND PARALLEL COMPUTING


Coordinators: Timothy G. Mattson and L. Ridgway Scott

BIO 12 Parallel Methods
€ Introduction and Opening Remarks, T. G. Mattson

€ The Application of a Massively Parallel Computer to the Simulation of Electrical Wave Propagation Phenomen in the Heart Muscle Using Simplified Models, M. G. Karpoukhin, B. Y. Kogan, and W. J. Karplus

Genetic Epidemiology, Parallel Algorithms, and Workstation Networks, R. D. Chamberlain, M. A. Franklin, G. D. Peterson, and M. A. Province

BIO 13 Parallel Molecular Modelling
€ A Parallel Algorithm for Calculating the Potential Energy in DNA, J.S. Conery,
W.L. Peticolas, T. Rush III, K. Shanmugam, and J. Dominguez

€ Benchmarking UHGROMOS, J.A. Lupo

€ The Scaling of Molecular Dynamics on the KSR1, R. Haacke and B.M. Pettitt

BIO 14 Open Discussion

PROTEIN STRUCTURE PREDICTION

Coordinators: Richard H. Lathrop and A. Keith Dunker

BIO 15 Secondary Structure
€ Use of Multiple Alignments in Protein Secondary Structure Prediction, V. Di Francesco,
P.J. Munson, and J. Garnier

€ Intensive Sequence Comparisons to Predict Protein Secondary Structures - Integration
into a Software Package: ANTHEPROT, G. Deleage and C. Geourjon

€ Protein Fold Recognition from Secondary Structure Assignments, R.B. Russell,
R.R. Copley, and G.J. Barton

BIO 16 Super-Secondary and Tertiary Structure
€ The Pattern of Common Supersecondary Structure (Motifs) in Protein Database, Z. Sun
and T. Blundell

€ Protein Folding Potential Functions, G.M. Crippen

€ Practical Use of a Fully Automatic Homology-Based Protein Modelling Protocol, E. Platt
and B. Robson

BIO 17 Open Discussion I

BIO 18 Open Discussion II

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