ISMB-97: Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 1997

The Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB-97)

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Papers accepted for oral presentation - To appear in the proceedings as full papers


  • Increasing consensus accuracy in DNA fragment assemblies by incorporation of fluorescent trace representations by Carolyn F Allex, Schuyler E Baldwin, Jude W Shavlik, and Frederick R Blattner
  • Standardized Representations of the Literature: Combining Diverse Sources of Ribosomal Data by Russ B Altman, Neil F Abernethy, and Richard O Chen
  • Automatic annotation for biological sequences by extration of keywords from MEDLINE abstracts. Development of a prototype system Miguel A Andrade and Alfonso Valencia
  • Protein Sequence Annotation in the Genome Era: The Annotation Concept of SWISS-PROT + TREMBL by Rolf Apweiler, Alain Gateau, Vivien Junker, Claire O'Donovan, Fiona Lang, Sergio Contrino, Maria Jesus Martin, Nicoletta Mitaritonna, Stephanie Kappus, Amos Bairoch
  • Dynamite: a flexible code generating language for dynamic programming methods used in sequence comparison by Ewan Birney and Richard Durbin
  • Data Mining for Regulatory Elements in Yeast Genome by Alvis Brazma, Jaak Vilo, Esko Ukkonen and Kimmo Valtonen
  • Application of Genetic search in derivation of matrix models of peptide binding to MHC molecules by Vladimir Brusic, Christian Schoenbach, Masafumi Takiguchi, Vic Ciesielski and Leonard C Harrison
  • Prediction of Enzyme classification from protein sequence without homology by Marie des Jardins, Peter D Karp, Markus Krummenavker, Thomas J Lee and Christos A Ouzounis
  • A knowledge base for D. melanogaster gene interactions involved in pattern formation by Jirtme Euzenat, Christophe Chemla and Bernard Jacq
  • Domain Identification by Clustering Sequence Alignments by Xiaojun Guan
  • RIFLE: Rapid identification of Microorganisms by fragment length evaluation by Henning Hermjakob, Robert Giegerich and Walter Arnold
  • Decision support system for the evolutionary classification of protein structures by L Holm and C Sander
  • Better Prediction of protein cellular localization sites with the k nearest neighbors classifier by Paul Horton and Kenta Nakai
  • The context-Dependence of amino acid Properties by Thomas R Ioerger
  • Detection of distant structural similarities in a set of proteins using an efficient graph-based method by Ina Koch and Thomas Lengauer
  • Two methods for improving performance of a HMM and their application for gene finding by Anders Krogh
  • A fast heuristic algorithm for a probe location problem by Brendan Mumey
  • Enumerating and Ranking discrete motifs by Craig G Nevill-Manning, Komal SSethi, Thomas D Wu and Douglas L Brutlag
  • Automatic Knowledge Base Construction from Biological Papers by Yoshihiro Ohta, Yasunori Yamamoto, Tomoko Okazaki, Ikuo Uchiyama and Toshihisa Takagi
  • Neural Network Prediction of Translation Initiation Sites in Eukaryotes: Perspectives for EST and Genome analysis by Anders Gorm Pedersen and Henrik Nielsen
  • Large scale protein modelling and model repository by Manuel C Peitsch
  • Novel Techniques for Exploring Biological Information by Alan J Robinson and Tom Flores
  • Cartagene: Constructing and Joining Maximum Likelihood Genetic Maps by Thomas Schiex and CGaspin
  • Predicting enzyme function from sequence: a systematic appraisal by Imran Shah and Lawrence Hunter
  • Hierarchical Protein Structure Alignment using both Secondary Structure and Atomic Representations by Amit P Singh and Douglas L Brutlag
  • The gene-finder computer tools for analysis of human and model organisms genome sequences by Victor Solovyev and Asaf Salamov
  • Automated alignment of RNA sequences to pseudoknotted structures by Jack E Tabaska and Gary D Stormo
  • Inference of Molecular Phylogenetic Tree Based on Minimum Model-based Complexity Method by Hiroshi Tanaka, F Ren, T Okayama and T Gojobori
  • SEALS: A System for Easy Analysis of Lots of Sequences by D Roland Walker and Eugene V Koonin
  • Inferring gene structures in genomic sequences using pattern recognition and expressed sequence tags by Ying Xu, Richard J Mural and Edward C Uberbacher
  • Bayesian adaptive alignment and inference by Jun Zhu, Jun Liu and Charles Lawrence


    Papers accepted for poster presentation - To appear in the proceedings as abstracts


  • Self-organising neural maps of the coding sequences of G-protein-coupled receptors reveal local domains associated with potentially functional determinants in the proteins by Arrigo P, Fariselli P and Casadio R
  • Beta-sheet Prediction Using Inter-strand Residue Pairs and Refinement with Hopfield Neural Network by Minoru Asogawa
  • Code generation through annotation -- a prototype using macromolecular structure data by John Biggs, Calton Pu and Philip Bourne
  • RIBOWEB: Linking Structural Computations to a Knowledge Base of Published Experimental Data by Richard O Chen, Ramon Felciano and Russ B Altman
  • Density of States, Metastable States, and Saddle Points Exploring the Energy Landscape of an RNA Molecule by Jan Cupal, Christoph Flamm, Alexander Renner and Peter F Stadler
  • Incorporating global information into secondary structure prediction with hidden Markov models of protein folds by Valentina Di Francesco, Philip McQueen, Jean Garnier and Peter Munson
  • Protein Folding class predictor for SCOP: approach based on global descriptors by Inna Dubchak, Ilya Muchnik and Sung-Hou Kim
  • Finding common sequence and structure motifs in a set of RNA sequences by J Gorodkin, LJ Heyer and GD Stormo
  • Identifying chimerism in proteins using hidden Markov models of codon usage by Lawrence hunter and Barry Zeeberg
  • Non-Local energy profile maker:a www server to assess protein structures by Francisco Melo, Damien Devos, Eric Depiereux and Ernest Feytmans
  • Sources of multi-body interactions within the graph of protein structure by Peter Munson and Raj K Singh
  • A computer support for genotyping by PCR- Multiplex by Pierre Nicodeme and Jean-Marc Steyaert
  • PDB-REPRDB: Database of representative protein chains in PDB (PROTEIN DATA BANK) by Tamotsu Noguchi, Kentaro Onizuka, Yutaka Akiyama and Minoru Saito
  • Modelling Antibody Side Chain Conformations Using Heuristic Database Search by David W Ritchie and Graham JL Kemp
  • A CORBA server for the radiation hybrid database by P Rodriguez-Tome, C Helgesen, P Lijnzaad and K Jungfer
  • Extraction of Substructures of Proteins Essential to their Biological Functions by a Data Mining Technique by K Satou, T Ono, Y Yamamura, E Furuichi, S Kuhara and T Takagi
  • Modeling Transcription Factor Binding Sites by Gibbs Sampling and Minimal Description Length Encoding by Jonathan Schug and G Christian Overton
  • Adding Semantics to Genome Databases: Towards an Ontology for Molecular Biology by Steffen Schulze-Kremer
  • Generating benchmarks for multiple sequence alignments and phylogenic reconstructions by Jens Stoye and Dirk Evers and Folker Meyer
  • Protein Model representation and construction by M Sullivan, J Glasgow, E Steeg, L Leherte and S Fortier
  • A new plug-in software architecture applied for a portable molecular structure browser by Yutaka Ueno and Kiyoshi Asai
  • Finding better cutters for protein mass fingerprinting by Michael Wise, Tim Littlejohn and Ian Humphery-Smith
  • Functional Prediction of B. subtilis genes from their regulatory sequences by Tetsushi Yada, Takahiro Ishii, Yasushi Totoki and Kenta Nakai
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