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icon will be displayed.| Monday October 16, 2017 Workshop day 1 @ ICAR CNR Site, Via Ugo La Malfa, 153, Palermo |
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| 13.30-14.30 | Registration and poster hang-up |
| 14.30-14.45 | Welcome and Introduction Giuseppe De Pietro, HPC & Networking Institute, National Research Council, Palermo, Italy Luciano Milanesi, BITS Bioinformatics Italian Society, Italy Paolo Romano, Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Italy A. Maurizio Urso, HPC & Networking Institute, National Research Council, Palermo, Italy |
| 14.45-15.30 | Keynote Lecture |
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Interoperability of clinical, pathological and omics data to execute personalised medicine (see abstract) Anita Grigoriadis, King’s College London, United Kingdom |
| 15.30-16.05 | Scientific Session 1 |
| Epistasis analysis reveals associations between gene variants and bipolar disorder (see preprint) Carlo Maj, Elena Milanesi, Massimo Gennarelli, Luciano Milanesi and Ivan Merelli |
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| Identification of Mutational Signatures Active in Individual Tumors (see preprint) Sandra Krüger and Rosario M Piro |
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| 16.05-16.50 | Keynote Lecture |
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Disease comorbidities and network approaches (see abstract) Alfonso Valencia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain |
| 16.50-17.20 | Coffee break |
| 17.20-17.35 | Flash poster presentations 1 |
| P1 Visualizing Mutation Occurrence using Big Data (see preprint) S. Albert P2 A Gene Set Enrichment Analysis of multiomic celiac disease data (see preprint) E. Del Prete, A. Facchiano and P. Liò P3 Network diffusion on multiple-layers: current approaches and integrative analysis of Rheumatoid Arthritis data (see preprint) N. Di Nanni, M. Gnocchi, M. Moscatelli, L. Milanesi and E. Mosca P4 Evolutionary relationships of Microbial Transglutaminases (see preprint) D. Giordano and A. Facchiano P5 Exploiting transcriptomic data in genome scale metabolic networks: new insights into obesity (see preprint) I. Granata, M. Sangiovanni, E. Troiano and M. Guarracino P6 Implementing a multilayer framework for pathway data integration, analysis and visualization (see preprint) Z. Hammoud and F. Kramer |
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| 17.35-18.05 | Guest Lecture |
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Getting Beyond Proof of Principle for Big Data Technologies in Bioinformatics: MapReduce Algorithmic, Programming and Architectural issues (see abstract) Raffaele Giancarlo, University of Palermo, Italy |
| 18.05-18.45 | Scientific Session 2 |
| Melanoma expression analysis with Big Data technologies (see preprint) Alicia Fernandez-Rovira, Rocio Lavado, Miguel Ángel Berciano Guerrero, Ismael Navas-Delgado and José F. Aldana Montes |
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| GenHap: A novel computational method based on genetic algorithms for haplotype assembly (see preprint) Andrea Tangherloni, Simone Spolaor, Leonardo Rundo, Marco S Nobile, Ivan Merelli, Paolo Cazzaniga, Daniela Besozzi, Giancarlo Mauri and Pietro Liò |
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| 18.45 | Day closure |
| Tuesday October 17, 2017 Workshop day 2 @ ICAR CNR Site, Via Ugo La Malfa, 153, Palermo |
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| 08.30-09.00 | Registration and poster hang-up |
| 09.00-09.55 | Scientific Session 3 |
| Parameters tuning boosts hyperSMURF predictions of rare deleterious non-coding genetic variants (see preprint) Alessandro Petrini, Max Schubach, Matteo Re, Marco Frasca, Marco Mesiti, Giuliano Grossi, Tiziana Castrignanò, Peter N Robinson and Giorgio Valentini |
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| Greedy motif-based approach to parsing large and diverge coiled-coil proteins into domains (see preprint) Hamed Khakzad, Johan Malmström and Lars Malmström |
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| From trash to treasure: detecting unexpected contamination in unmapped NGS data (see preprint) Ilaria Granata, Mara Sangiovanni, Amarinder Singh Thind and Mario Rosario Guarracino |
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| 09.55-10.40 | Keynote Lecture |
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Making genomics Come true: How can we achieve real acceleration of genomics into medicine? (see abstract) Winston Hide, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom |
| 10.40-10.55 | Flash poster presentations 2: from P8 to P14 |
| P8 Querying and analyzing biological data with BioGraph (see preprint) A. Messina, A. Fiannaca, L. La Paglia, M. La Rosa and A. M. Urso P10 ISMARA: Completely automated inference of gene regulatory networks from high-throughput data (see preprint) M. Pachkov, P. Balwierz, P. Arnold, A. Gruber, M. Zavolan and E. van Nimwegen P11 An Algebraic Representation for Tree Alignment of RNA Pseudoknotted Structures (see preprint) M. Quadrini, L. Tesei and E. Merelli P12 Procedure to integrate i2b2 and REDCap: a case study at ICSM (see preprint) V. Tibollo, M. Bucalo, D. Vella, M. Stuppia, N. Barbarini and R. Bellazzi P13 Stability Analysis of MTopGO for Module Identification in PPI Networks (see preprint) D. Vella, A. Tucker and R. Bellazzi P14 A Quality Management System for scientific research activities and its related management software (see preprint) L. Caruana, A. Pensato, L. Riccobono, G. L. Liguori, A. Lanati, A. Kisslinger, M. Di Carlo and A. Bongiovanni |
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| 10.55-12.15 | Poster session with coffee break service |
| 12.15-12.45 | Guest Lecture |
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Open Data is Essential for Personalized Medicine (see abstract) Francis Ouellette, Génome Québec, Canada |
| 12.45-13.15 | Guest Lecture |
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Walking pathways in cancer (see abstract) Alexander Kel, GeneXplain, Germany |
| 13.15-14.30 | Lunch break |
| 14.30-15.05 | Scientific Session 4 |
| MTopGO: a tool for module identification in PPI Networks (see preprint) Danila Vella, Simone Marini, Francesca Vitali and Riccardo Bellazzi |
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| GenotypeAnalytics: an RESTful Platform to mine multiple associations between SNPs and drug response in case-control studies (see preprint) Giuseppe Agapito, Pietro Hiram Guzzi and Mario Cannataro |
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| 15.05-15.35 | Guest Lecture |
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Big data and cognitive computing in healthcare: weathering the perfect storm (see abstract) Matthias Reumann, IBM Research – Zurich, Switzerland |
| 15.35-16.30 | Panel discussion |
| Title to be defined Giovanni Vizzini, UPMC Italy, Palermo and invited speakers. Comments and questions may follow. |
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| 16.30 | Day closure |
| 16.30-20.30 | Social activity: Guided tour to Monreale and Cefalù |
| 20.30-23.00 | Social Dinner in Cefalù |
| Wednesday October 18, 2017 Workshop day 3 @ ICAR CNR Site, Via Ugo La Malfa, 153, Palermo |
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| 08.30-09.00 | Registration and poster hang-up |
| 09.00-09.30 | Guest Lecture |
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ELIXIR-IIB – the Italian Infrastructure for Bioinformatics: a growing support to national and international research in life sciences (see abstract) Luana Licata, ELIXIR-IIB, Italy |
| 09.30-10.15 | Keynote Lecture |
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Atlas of Cancer Signaling Network and NaviCell: Systems Biology resources for studying cancer biology (see abstract) Inna Kuperstein, Institut Curie, Paris, France |
| 10.15-11.05 | Scientific Session 5 |
| Personalised models for human – gut microbiota interaction (see preprint) David Gilbert, Monika Heiner and Leila Ghanbar |
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| A Dynamic Bayesian Network model for simulation of disease progression in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis patients (see preprint) Alessandro Zandonà, Matilde Francescon, Maya Bronfeld, Andrea Calvo, Adriano Chiò and Barbara Di Camillo |
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| Multi-resolution network modelling of T-cells for precisions medicine of multiple sclerosis (see preprint) Mika Gustafsson |
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| 11.05-12.15 | Poster session with coffee break service |
| 12.15-12.50 | Scientific Session 6 |
| PGxO: A very lite ontology to reconcile pharmacogenomic knowledge units (see preprint) Pierre Monnin, Clément Jonquet, Joël Legrand, Amedeo Napoli and Adrien Coulet |
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| Interoperability of RehabRobo-Onto (see preprint) Zeynep Dogmus, Volkan Patoglu and Esra Erdem |
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| 12.50-13.00 | Announcement |
| First announcement of NETTAB 2018 Paolo Romano, Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Italy |
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| 13.00 | Workshop Closure and Farewell |
