POSTER PRESENTERS Session A A1 Authors: Sahar Abubucker, Makedonka Mitreva Gene Identification and Functional Classification of the Hookworm Genome A2 Authors: Gulsah Altun, Hae-Jin Hu, Stefan Gremalschi, Yi Pan, Robert W. Harrison Support Vector Machine and Clique Based Approach for Feature Selection in Protein Profiles A3 Authors: Trevor Blackstone, Yuanan Diao, Javier Arsuaga Linking of Chromosomes During Interphase A4 Authors: Xuefei Wang, Bai-Lian Li, Cheryl L. Willman, Susan R. Atlas Identification, Combination and Implementation of Linguistic Fuzzy Rules in Acute Leukemia Using Gene Expression and Covariate Data A5 Authors: Xin Zhou, David P. Tuck Gene Selection Using a New Error Bound for Support Vector Machines A6 Authors: Markus Bauer, Gunnar W. Klau, Knut Reinert Accurate Sequence-Structure Alignment of Multiple RNA Sequences A7 Authors: Andrew Bordner, Andrey A. Gorin Structural Information Greatly Improves the Accuracy of Protein Interactions Inferred from Homology A8 Authors: Robert Bradley, Ian Holmes RNA Structure Evolution and Transducer Composition A9 Authors: Cornelia Caragea, Jivko Sinapov, Adrian Silvescu, Drena Dobbs, Vasant Honavar Glycosylation Site Prediction Using Machine Learning Approaches A10 Authors: Sheng-Da Hsu, Paul Wei-Che Hsu, Hsien-Da Huang miRTar: A Fast and Efficient MicroRNA Target Prediction Web Server A11 Authors: Tzong-Yi Lee, Yung-Hao Wong, Hsien-Da Huang PTM-X: an Integrated Platform for Identifying Protein Post-Translational Modification Sites A12 Authors: Tzu-Hao Chang, Hsien-Da Huang, Jorng-Tzong Horng RNASMotif: A Web Server for Discovering RNA Structural Motif in Unaligned Sequences RECOMB 2007 / THE 11th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY A13 Authors: Pao-Yang Chen, Charlotte M. Deane, Gesine Reinert A Statistical Approach Using Network Structure in the Prediction of Protein Characteristics A14 Authors: Allen Chen, Jack Chen, Lynn Hlatky, Caoan Wang, Dan Levy, Mariel Vazquez, Rainer Sachs Human X Chromosome Reveals Pronounced Early Population Subdivisions and Recent Bottlenecks A15 Authors: Ting-Ying Chien, Chien-Yu Chen, Darby Tien-Hao Chang, Chen-Ming Hsu Deriving Functional Signatures from Protein Sequences by Iterative Pattern Mining A16 Authors: Eunjung Cho, Anu G. Bourgeois Efficient Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulation on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)s with MultiGrid Method A17 Authors: Hideo Imamura, Jason H. Persampieri, Jeffrey Chuang Sequences Conserved by Selection Across Mouse and Human Malaria Species A18 Authors: Adriana Climescu-Haulica, Michelle Quirk A Fuzzy Games Approach of RNA-based Gene Regulation A19 Authors: Ofir Davidovich, Gad Kimmel, Eran Halperin, Ron Shamir Maximizing SNP Prediction Accuracy Increases the Power in Association Studies A20 Authors: Michael Terribilini, Jeffry Sander, Jae-Hyung Lee, Robert L. Jernigan, Vasant Honavar, Drena Dobbs Comparing Sequence vs Structure-based Predictions of RNA Binding Sites in Proteins A21 Authors: Henrik Bengtsson Anonymous In-house and Public Reference Sets for Copy-number Analysis of a Small Number of Affymetrix SNP Arrays A22 Authors: Sherief El-Shazly, S. Ahman, A.S. Mustafa, R. Al-Attiya, D. Krajci In Vitro and In Vivo Expression, Immunological Characterization and Invasin-Like Role of Mammalian Cell Entry (Mce) Proteins Encoded by Mce3 Operon of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis A23 Authors: Xiaodan Fan, Jun Zhu, Eric E. Schadt, Jun S. Liu On Criterions of Multiple Alignment Quality A24 Author: Vanathi Gopalakrishnan Prior Knowledge for Discovery Proteomics Data Interpretation A25 Authors: B A Gowri Shankar, Michael Charleston, Michael Murray, David Hibbs Cytochrome P450 Structures – Structural and Phylogenetic Analysis A26 Authors: Leelavati Narlikar, Raluca Gordan, Uwe Ohler, Alexander Hartemink Informative Positional Priors Improve De Novo Motif Discovery A27 Authors: Gregory J. Hather, Terence P. Speed, Mary C. Wildermuth A Semiparametric Mixture Model for Identifying Cis-acting Regulatory Elements A28 Authors: Andrew Uzilov, Mitchell Skinner, Chris Mungall, Ian Holmes Enhancements to the GBrowse Genome Browser RECOMB 2007 / THE 11th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY A29 Authors: Minmei Hou, Robert Harris, Webb Miller A New Seeding Strategy for DNA Alignment A30 Authors: Jia-Ming Chang, Chia-Yu Su, Allan Lo, Hua-Sheng Chiu, Ting-Yi Sung, Wen-Lian Hsu PSLDoc:Protein Subcellular Localization Prediction Based on Document Classification A31 Authors: Kuan-Hua Jen, Hsi-Yuan Huang, Chia-Hung Chien, Hsien-Da Huang,Tzu-Hao Wang Heart Aged-Match between Human Fetus and Mouse Fetus Based on Microarray Gene Expression Profiles A32 Authors: Wolfgang Lehrach, Dirk Husmeier Inference in Phylogenetic Factorial Hidden Markov Models A33 Authors: Rene Hussong, Andreas Hildebrandt The Isotope Wavelet: A Signal Theoretic Framework for Analyzing Mass Spectrometry Data A34 Authors: Hyunmin Kim, Katherina J. Kechris, Lawrence Hunter Mining Discriminative Distance Context of Transcription Factor Binding Sites on ChIP Enriched Regions A35 Authors: Ivy Jansen, Kerstin Koch, Natalia Kwasnikowska, Tomasz Burzykowski An Algorithm to Find Co-Regulated Gene Clusters: Adjustment for Random Variability of Gene Expression Data A36 Authors: Nak-Kyeong Kim, Kannan Tharakaraman, John L. Spouge Improving the Identification of Regulatory Elements by Using Context-dependent Markov Background Model A37 Authors: Boris Kiryutin, Alexandre Souvorov, Tatiana Tatusova ProSplign – Protein to Genomic Alignment Tool A38 Authors: Segun Fatumo, Kitiporn Plaimas, Jan-Phllip Stier, Ezekiel Adebiyi, Marcus Oswald, Roland Eils, Rainer Konig Computational Identification of Essential Reactions in Plasmodium Falciparum to Yield Potential Drug Targets A39 Authors: Itamar Landau, Nathan Shayefar, Xia Hua, Juliet Portillo, Janella Slaga, Mariel Vazquez Modeling DNA Unknotting by Type II Topoisomerases A40 Authors: Kwang Hee Lee, Sunghoon Lee, Pan-Gyu Kim, Kiejung Park BioCell : A Visualization System for Protein Interactions and Comparmentations A41 Authors: Christina Chaivorapol, Marica Grskovic, Alexandre Gaspar-Maia, Hao Li, Miguel Ramalho-Santos Systematic Identification Of Cis-Acting Sequences Reveals NF-Y As A Regulator Of Embryonic Stem Cells RECOMB 2007 / THE 11th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY A42 Authors: Galih Kunarso, Kee-Yew Wong, Lawrence W. Stanton, Leonard Lipovich Experimental Validation of Computationally Identified Novel Transcriptional Units in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells A43 Authors: James Long, Tom Marr, Shawn Houston A Simple Genbank Search Engine A44 Authors: Nitin Bhardwaj, Hui Lu Membrane-Binding Mechanism of Peripheral Proteins Elucidated by Integration of Bioinformatics Prediction and Molecular Dynamics Simulations A45 Authors: Valentina A. Boeva, Mireille Regnier, Mikhail A. Roytberg, Vsevolod J. Makeev Statistics of Multiple PWM Occurrences in Biopolymer Sequences A46 Authors: Jochen Maydt, Thomas Lengauer Handling Gaps in Recombination Analysis Using RECCO A47 Authors: Ali Navid, Eivind Almaas Analysis of Systems Properties of the Yersinia Pestis Biovars Using a Genome-scale Constraint Based Model A48 Authors: Elon Portugaly, Steve Johnson, Matan Ninio, Sean R. Eddy Improved HMMERHEAD for Better Sensitivity A49 Authors: Martin Paluszewski, Pawel Winter Branch and Bound Algorithm for Protein Structure Prediction Using Efficient Bounding A50 Authors: Hongseok Tae, Hyeweon Nam, Jaekyang Song, Kiejung Park A Web Based Polyketide Analysis System for Modular Polyketide Synthases A51 Authors: Thomas Kelder, Alexander R. Pico, Martijn van Iersel, Bruce Conklin, Chris Evelo WikiPathways: Pathway Editing for the People A52 Authors: Katherine S. Pollard, Sofie R. Salama, Jakob S. Pedersen, Sol Katzman, Bryan King, Adam Siepel, David Williamson, Haller Igel, Manuel Ares Jr., Pierre Vanderhaeghen, David Haussler The Fastest Evolving Regions in the Human Genome A53 Authors: Iosifina Pournara, Lorenz Wernisch Time-series Factor Analysis for Reconstructing Transcription Factor Activities A54 Authors: Melissa Freedenberg, Chanchala Kaddi, Chang F. Quo, May D. Wang Review and Comparison of Systems Biology Simulation Tools for Translational Research A55 Authors: Ofer Rahat, Gideon Schreiber Atomic Interactions Networks Characterizes Proteins Structure and Function A56 Authors: Nini Rao, Xu Lei, Zhenglong Ren A Novel Sliding Window Strategy for Accurate Location of Coding Regions Based on Power Spectrum Analysis RECOMB 2007 / THE 11th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY A57 Authors: Rohit Reja, Gaurav Kumar Maheshwari Homology Modeling of Human Protein Cathepsin A A58 Authors: Shuchi Nagar, Sanchita Mullick, Subhendu Mukherjee, Arup Mukherjee, Achintya Saha Pharmacophore Mapping for MCF Cell Inhibition of Arylbenzothiopene Derivatives A59 Authors: Paul Yoo, Bing Bing Zhou, Albert Y. Zomaya The Role of Long-Range Interacton in Protein Secondary Structure Prediction A60 Authors: Konrad Scheffler, Cathal Seoighe PARRIS: a PARtitioning Approach for Robust Inference of Selection A61 Authors: Dina Schneidman-Duhovny, Yuval Inbar Ruth Nussinov, Haim J. Wolfson Prediction of Symmetric Assemblies by Docking A62 Authors: Alexander Sczyrba, Susanne Konermann, Peter Steffen, Jan Kruger, Sven Hartmeier, Robert Giegerich Educational Media at the Bielefeld University Bioinformatics Server A63 Authors: Xinwei She, Jason Johnson, Ronghua Chen Identification of Mammalian Housekeeping