Basel Computational Biology Conference 2003

[Basel Computational Biology Conference 2003]

Program

Schedule:

April 3, 2003

9:00		Registration
9:30		Torsten Schwede (Biozentrum & Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics) Opening
9:35		Joachim Seelig (Chairman of Biozentrum, University Basel) Welcome Message
9:45		Ernest Feytmans (Director of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics) "Scope and use of bioinformatics at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics "
10:00		Keynote Lecture: Manuel Peitsch (Novartis) "Informatics and Knowledge Management in Pharma Research"
10:30		Coffee Break
11:00		Session I: Computational Biology Mischa Reinhardt (Novartis) "Modeling the Human Transcriptome"
11:30		Michael Primig (Biozentrum & Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics) "Mining Meiosis"
12:00		Martin Ebeling (Roche) "Promoter genomics"

12:30		Lunch Break

14:00		Gian-Reto Plattner (President of the Ständerat & Vice-rector Universität Basel) "Why a University manager and politician likes Bioinformatics."
14:15		Peter Berndt (Roche) "About Moore’s law in Proteomics"
14:45		Torsten Schwede (Biozentrum & Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics) "Modeling Genes and Genomes in 3D"
15:15		Coffee Break
15:45		Session II: Advances in Computing Technologies Chris Jones (CERN) "The Future of GRIDS and E-Science"
16:15		Dan Durkin (United Devices) "Enterprise Grids: What they are and some real results"
16:45		Dominique Gillot (HP) Facing the complexity of Bioinformatics challenges. Hewlett-Packard view point
17:15 - 20:00		Conference Apero at the Life Sciences Village sponsored by IBM

April 4, 2003

9:30		Session III: Chemical computing and Drug Discovery Wolfram Altenhofen (Chemical Computing Group) "A Z-score based approach to high-throughput whole genome homology assignments"
10:00		Othmar Pfannes (Genedata) "Combining genome, transcriptome, proteome and metabolome data to improve the drug discovery process"
10:30		Edgar Jacobi (Novartis) "Chemogenomics Knowledge-Based Strategies in Drug Discovery"
11:00		Coffee Break
11:30		Martin Stahl (Roche) "Docking and De Novo Design: How good are our predictions?"
12:00		Chris Cooper (IBM) "IBM Life Sciences strategy and solutions"

12:30		Lunch Break

14:00		Session IV: In silico Simulation, and Knowledge Mining Wanda Andreoni (IBM) "Computational Bioscience @ IBM Research"
14:30		Thérèse Vachon (Novartis) "Text mining in Life Science Informatics"
15:00		Andreas Kuttler (GiMS) "B-numerics"
15:30		Closing Keynote Lecture: Denis Noble (Oxford University) "From genes to whole organs: vertical integration using mathematical simulation of the heart"
16:30		End of conference
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