Program

Overview

Tuesday, 10 September 2013

  • Satellite Workshops on Göttingen's North Campus
  • Welcome Reception

Wednesday, 11 September 2013

  • Morning Session
  • Afternoon Session
  • Poster Session
  • GI board meeting
  • DECHEMA board meeting
  • Social Event: Conference Dinner

Thursday, 12 September 2013

  • Morning Session
  • Afternoon Session
  • Sponsor Presentations
  • GBM board meeting
  • Social Event: Guided Walks
  • PC Dinner (by invitation only)

Friday, 13 September 2013

  • Morning Session
  • Closing / Award of Best Poster Prize

The conference program can be downloaded here.

Tentative Program

Tuesday, 10 September 2013

The workshops take place at the Faculty of Physics.

Satellite Workshops
13:15-17:15
HS1
Workshop 1 (Tim Beißbarth)
Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics
13:30-17:30
HS2
Workshop 2 (Peter Meinicke, Thomas Lingner)
Computational Methods for Metagenomics and Meta-Omics
10:00-16:00
HS3
Workshop 3 (Burkhard Morgenstern, Susana Vinga)
Alignment-Free Sequence Comparison
14:00-18:00
HS4
Workshop 4 (Edgar Wingender)
Methods for Integrated Analysis of Multi-Level Datasets
19:00-21:00 Welcome Reception in old Town Hall (Markt 9, 37073 Göttingen)
Enjoy finger food and drinks
19:30 Prof. Dr. Ulrike Beisiegel, President of the University of Göttingen
Welcome of the GCB 2013 participants
An opportunity to check in and to pick up the conference documents will be provided.



The main conference takes place at the Faculty of Physics.
Talks will be held in lecture hall HS1, unless otherwise stated.

R … Regular Paper
H … Highlight Paper

Wednesday, 11 September 2013

8:00 Registration opens, poster mounting
9:00 Opening (Burkhard Morgenstern, Program co-Chair)
Session Chair: Martin Kollmar
9:05 KEYNOTE
Gene expression genomics in T cells
Sarah Teichmann (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK)
9:50 GEDEVO: An Evolutionary Graph Edit Distance Algorithm for Biological Network Alignment (R)
Rashid Ibragimov, Maximilian Malek, Jiong Guo and Jan Baumbach
10:15 PanCake: A Data Structure for Pangenomes (R)
Corinna Ernst and Sven Rahmann
10:40 Coffee break
Session Chair: Mario Stanke
11:10 Continuous rapid expansion of the mutually exclusive spliced exome in Drosophila species (H)
Klas Hatje and Martin Kollmar
11:35 Avoiding Ambiguity and Assessing Uniqueness in Minisatellite Alignment (R)
Benedikt Löwes and Robert Giegerich
12:00 GenomeTools: a comprehensive software library for efficient processing of structured genome annotations (H)
Gordon Gremme, Sascha Steinbiss and Stefan Kurtz
12:25 Aligning Flowgrams to DNA Sequences (R)
Marcel Martin and Sven Rahmann
12:50 Lunch break
Session Chair: Kay Nieselt
14:15 KEYNOTE
Predicting the Past: Two recent applications of phylogenetic-network construction regarding the evolution of the HOX-gene cluster and the placental mammals
Andreas Dress (Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany)
15:00 Poster Session
15:00-16:30

Even numbers
15:00 GI board meeting
(Room SR1, A1.101, 1st floor)
16:15-16:45 Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Odd numbers 16:00 DECHEMA board meeting
(Room SR1, A1.101, 1st floor)

Social event: Conference Dinner at the restaurant Bullerjahn starts at 19:00 (ticket required for entry)

Thursday, 12 September 2013

Session Chair: Martin Kollmar
9:00 KEYNOTE
Blind source separation applied to multiply labeled fluorescence images
Erwin Neher (Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany)
9:45 Utilization of ordinal response structures in classification with high-dimensional expression data (R)
Andreas Leha, Klaus Jung and Tim Beißbarth
10:10 Versatile prioritization of candidate disease genes or other molecules with NetworkPrioritizer (H)
Tim Kacprowski, Nadezhda T. Doncheva and Mario Albrecht
10:35 Coffee break
Session Chair: Edgar Wingender
11:00 Exploiting structural information for target assessment (H)
Andrea Volkamer and Matthias Rarey
11:25 Efficient Interpretation of Tandem Mass Tags in Top-Down Proteomics (R)
Anna Katharina Hildebrandt, Ernst Althaus, Hans-Peter Lenhof, Chien-Wen Hung, Andreas Tholey and Andreas Hildebrandt
11:50 On the estimation of metabolic profiles in metagenomics (R)
Kathrin Petra Aßhauer and Peter Meinicke
12:15 Lunch break
Session Chair: Ina Koch
13:45 KEYNOTE
Light-Based Systems Biology
Eugene Myers (Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany)
14:30 On Weighting Schemes for Gene Order Analysis (R)
Matthias Bernt, Nicolas Wieseke and Martin Middendorf
14:55 Alignment-free sequence comparison with spaced k-mers (R)
Marcus Boden, Martin Schöneich, Sebastian Horwege, Sebastian Lindner, Chris Leimeister and Burkhard Morgenstern
15:20 Dinucleotide distance histograms for fast detection of rRNA in metatranscriptomic sequences (R)
Heiner Klingenberg, Robin Martinjak, Frank Oliver Glöckner, Rolf Daniel, Thomas Lingner and Peter Meinicke
15:45 Coffee break
16:00 GBM board meeting
(Room SR1, A1.101, 1st floor)

Social event: Guided walks through Göttingen's center start at 18:00 17:30 (ticket required for participation)

Program Committee Dinner at the Kartoffelhaus starts at 19:30 (by invitation only)

Friday, 13 September 2013

Session Chair: Tim Beißbarth
9:00 KEYNOTE
Normalization of RNA-Seq Data: Are the ERCC Spike-In Controls Reliable?
Terry Speed (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia)
9:45 Reconstructing Consensus Bayesian Network Structures with Application to Learning Molecular Interaction Networks (R)
Holger Fröhlich and Gunnar W. Klau
10:10 Application of a Novel Triclustering Method (δ-TRIMAX) to Mine 3D Gene Expression Data of Breast Cancer Cells (H)
Anirban Bhar, Martin Haubrock, Anirban Mukhopadhyay and Edgar Wingender
10:35 Paving the Way for Automated Clinical Breath Analysis and Biomarker Detection (H)
Anne-Christin Hauschild, Jörg Ingo Baumbach and Jan Baumbach
11:00 Coffee break
Session Chair: Thomas Lingner
11:30 TALEs of virulence and biotechnology (H)
Jan Grau, Annett Wolf, Maik Reschke, Ulla Bonas, Stefan Posch and Jens Boch
11:55 Learning Gene Network Structure from Time Laps Cell Imaging in RNAi Knock-Downs (H)
Henrik Failmezger, Paurush Praveen, Achim Tresch and Holger Fröhlich
12:20 Extended Sunflower Hidden Markov Models for the recognition of homotypic cis-regulatory modules (R)
Ioana M. Lemnian, Ralf Eggeling and Ivo Grosse
12:45 Closing Remarks, Award of Best Poster Prize (Tim Beißbarth)
13:00 The End

Keynote Speakers

Andreas Dress
External Scientific Member, Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Predicting the Past: Two recent applications of phylogenetic-network construction regarding the evolution of the HOX-gene cluster and the placental mammals

Eugene Myers
Director and Klaus Tschira Chair of Systems Biology, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
Light-Based Systems Biology

Erwin Neher
Nobel laureate 1991, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
Blind source separation applied to multiply labeled fluorescence images

Terry Speed
Head of Bioinformatics division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
Normalization of RNA-Seq Data: Are the ERCC Spike-In Controls Reliable?

Sarah Teichmann
Group leader, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
Gene expression genomics in T cells