HELLENIC BIOINFORMATICS 10 HELLENIC

BIOINFORMATICS 10 SEPTEMBER 6‐9, 2017 – HERAKLION, ,

Bioinformatics and its applications in Health, Biodiversity and the Environment

about Elixir • biodiversity • bioinformatics • bioprospecting • computational biology • enzyme discovery • • metabolic engineering • microbiome • pharmacogenomics • phylogeny • structural genomics • synthetic biology • systems biology • text mining • functional proteomics

Abstract submission deadline: June 10, 2017 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hbioinfo2017

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HELLENIC BIOINFORMATICS 10 [SEPTEMBER 6-9, 2017 – HERAKLION, CRETE, GREECE]

Organizing Committee September 5: WORKSHOPS September 6: TUTORIALS

 Michalis Aivaliotis, Greece (co-chair) Proteomics Workshop – Hands-on Session 1: Metagenomics  Sophia Ananiadou, UK  Pantelis Angelidis, Greece  Michalis Aivaliotis ● Alex Mitchell, UK  Eleftherios Angelis, Greece o Introduction to proteomics Title: Introduction to EBI Metagenomics

 Christos Arvanitidis, Greece  M. Aivaliotis, N. Kountourakis, K. ● Folker Meyer, USA  Theodora Farmaki, Greece Psatha, C. Seitanidou Title: MG-RAST version 4.0  Ioannis Iliopoulos, Greece (chair) o Bioinformatics I – MS-Raw data  Dimitris Kafetzopoulos, Greece processing Session 2: Phylogenomics

 Ilias Kappas, Greece  M. Aivaliotis, N. Kountourakis, K.  Christos Karapiperis, Greece ● Alexandros Stamatakis, Germany Psatha, C. Seitanidou Title: Phylogenomic inference methods:  George Kotoulas, Greece o Bioinformatics II – Meta-data analysis inferring,species trees from whole-  Yiannis Kourmpetis, Switzerland and visualization genome alignments  Nikos Kyrpides, USA Advanced RNA-Seq and ChIP-Seq data ● Bastien Bousseau, France  Tereza Manousaki, Greece analysis – Hands-on Title: Reconciliation methods: interpreting  Pericles Mitkas, Greece gene trees ,given species trees  Christos Ouzounis, Greece  Pantelis Topalis

 Evangelos Pafilis, Greece o Introduction to RNA-Seq and ChIP-Seq Session 3: Data Integrity

 Pavlos Pavlidis, Greece  Anastasia Politou, Greece  P. Topalis, E. Dialynas, G. Papagiannakis ● Ioannis Ioannidis, USA  Yiota Poirazi, Greece o RNA-Seq Data Analysis Title: Predating data: Integrity of methods  George Potamias, Greece  P. Topalis, E. Dialynas and statistics  Vasilis Promponas, Cyprus o ChIP-Seq Data Analysis ● Gemma Galdon Clavell, Spain  Zacharias Scouras, Greece Title: Misconduct and data: privacy,  Alexandros Stamatakis, Germany Important Notes: accountability, and responsibility in (big)  Nektarios Tavernarakis, Greece  Number of maximum participants 35. data science  Pantelis Topalis, Greece  A digital textbook and references will be provided to all participants in advance.  Ioannis Tsamardinos, Greece  All the participants need to have their own  George Tsiamis, Greece laptops. No computers will be provided by Important Notes:  Ioannis Vizirianakis, Greece the organizers.  Number of maximum participants 150.

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HELLENIC BIOINFORMATICS 10 [SEPTEMBER 6-9, 2017 – HERAKLION, CRETE, GREECE]

September 7: HEALTH September 8: ENVIRONMENT September 9: BIODIVERSITY

Keynote 1 Keynote 3 Keynote 4 ● John Ioannidis, USA ● Peter Karp, USA ● Yves Moreau, Belgium Title: Credibility and utility of big data Title: The Omics Dashboard for Inter- Title: Bayesian matrix factorization with active Exploration of High-Throughput side information and application to drug- Session 1: Medical Genomics Data target activity prediction ● Eleftheria Zeggini, UK Title: Progress in understanding the Session 5: Human Microbiome Session 9: Cellular Networks and Modeling genomic aetiology of osteoarthritis ● Lynn Schriml, USA ● Ewa Szczurek, Poland Title: GSC metadata standards in Title: Statistical and mathematical ● Evangelia Petsalaki, UK action: MetaSUB and ISD models in computational oncology Title: Integrative study of the role of RhoGAP/GEFs in the Rho protein ● Maria Pilar Francino, Spain ● Hector-Garcia Martin, USA signaling network Title: Microbiota development in the gut Title: Mathematical modeling of -omics of infants, children and adolescents data for biofuel production through Session 2: Neuro-Genomics synthetic biology ● Panos Roussos, USA Session 6: Computational Metagenomics Title: Big Data Analysis and Genetic ● Folker Meyer, USA Session 10: PhyloGenomics Liability to Common Neuropsychiatric Title: A novel pipeline for high quality ● David Ussery, USA Traits amplicon analysis integrated into MG- Title: What is Life? Conserved RAST Functional Domains in a Hundred Session 3: Variomics Thousand Bacterial Genomes ● Mehmet Sommel, Turkey ● Rob Finn, UK Title: The spread of farming in the Title: Expanding the scope and repro- ● Daniel Lundin, Sweden Aegean 9000 years ago: An ancient ducibility of analysis in EBI metageno- Title: The evolution of ribonucleotide DNA perspective mics reduction

● Stefan Laurent, Switzerland Session 7: Environmental Microbiome Session 11: Text Mining & Ontologies Title: Studying the adaptive and demo- ● Daniele Daffonchio, Saudi Arabia ● Lars Jensen, Denmark graphic histories of natural populations Title: Soil development and rhizosphere Title: One tagger, many uses: Simple using population text-mining strategies for biomedicine effect in a High Arctic desert chronose- quence Keynote 5 Session 4: Roundtable: Role of Greek ● Periklis Papadopoulos, USA Bioinformatics in Elixir ● Carolin Frank, USA Title: Space Technology and Space Title: Nitrogen fixation by the foliar Keynote 2 Biology conifer microbiome ● Alfonso Valencia, Spain HBioinfo-2018 Handoff, Closing Remarks Title: (TBA) Session 8: HB Society Matters and Awards

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