GIW XXXI/ISCB-Asia V
at National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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Conference Program (click on titles to see talk abstracts)
Day 1  Monday, December 12, 2022  [day2] [day3]
9:30 – 17:00 Registration Desk Open
9:45 – 10:00 Opening Ceremony
10:00 – 11:00 Keynote: Martin Steinegger
Mega-scale protein structure prediction and search
Day 1, Morning Session
Keynote intro & session chair: Paul Horton
11:00 – 11:30 How to optimally sample a sequence for rapid analysis
Martin Frith, Jim Shaw and John Spouge
11:30 – 12:00 SlowMoMan: A web app for discovery of important features along user-drawn trajectories in 2D embeddings
Kiran Deol, Griffin Weber and Yun William Yu
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch off-site
(locals can help international participants find food in small groups)
13:30 – 14:30 Keynote: Naomichi Matsumoto
Technological advances in NGS and bioinformatics for the analysis of human genetic diseases
Day 1, Afternoon Session
Keynote intro & session chair: Masayuki Hashimoto
14:30 – 15:00 HIGHLIGHT: Clinical and therapeutic application of adenosine to inosine RNA editing in glioma
Sean Chun-Chang Chen and Sheng-Hau Lin
15:00 – 15:30 ☕  Coffee Break  ☕
15:30 – 17:30 Poster Session
Day 2  Tuesday, December 13, 2022  [day1] [day3]
09:00 – 10:00 Keynote: Pao-Yang Chen
Epigenome Bioinformatics in Plants
Day 2, Morning Session
Keynote intro & session chair: Tsunglin Liu
10:00 – 10:20 Inference of single-cell network using mutual information for scRNA-seq data analysis
Lan-Yun Chang, Ting-Yi Hao, Wei-Jie Wang and Chun-Yu Lin
10:20 – 10:40 Extracting T cell receptor reads from RNA-Seq data for studying non-recombined sequences in T cell lymphoma cell lines
Chen-Yan Hung, Cheng-Han Lin and Tsunglin Liu
10:40 – 11:00 An immune-suppressing protein in human endogenous retroviruses
Huan Zhang, Shengliang Ni and Martin Frith
11:00 – 11:20 Anomalous Relative Frequency of Trimeric Tandem Repeats in Animal Genomes
Chotinan Nitikitpaiboon and Martin Frith
11:20 – 11:40 Incorporating tissue-specific gene expression data to improve chemical-disease inference
Shan-Shan Wang, Chia-Chi Wang, Chien-Lun Wang and Chun-Wei Tung
11:40 – 12:00 Advanced unsupervised feature extraction finds novel application and software tool to select more reasonable differentially methylated cytosines
Y-H. Taguchi and Turki Turki
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch on-site
(lunch boxes provided)
Day 2, Afternoon Session
Session chair: Torbjörn Martin Nordling
13:00 – 13:20 A putative scenario of how de novo protein-coding genes originate in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae lineage
Tetsushi Yada and Takeaki Taniguch
13:20 – 13:40 DNA-protein quasi-mapping for rapid differential gene expression analysis in non-model organisms
Kyle Santiago and Anish Man Singh Shrestha
13:40 – 14:00 Representation of Neuron Activity and Examination of Cell Detection in Calcium Imaging Data by Max-Min Intensity Images
Yu-Wei Tsay, Chia-Ying Wu, Wei-Hsin Chen, Chien-Chang Chen and Arthur Chun-Chieh Shih
14:00 – 14:20 NuKit: A Deep Learning Platform for Fast Nucleus Segmentation of Histopathological Images
Ching-Nung Lin, Christine H Chung and Aik Choon Tan
14:20 – 14:40 Highly-accurate prediction of colorectal cancer through low abundance uncultivated genomes recovered using metagenomic co-assembly and binning approach
Po-Ting Lin and Yu-Wei Wu
14:40 – 15:00 stoppage time or stretch legs
15:00 – 15:30 ☕  Coffee Break  ☕
15:30 – 17:30 Excursion to Chimei Museum
18:00 – 20:00 Conference Banquet @ Shangri-La Far Eastern
Day 3  Wednesday, December 14, 2022  [day1] [day2]
09:00 – 10:00 Keynote: Zhiping Weng
Annotating human and mouse candidate cis-regulatory elements in the ENCODE project
Day 3, Morning Session
Keynote intro & session chair Pao-Yang Chen
10:00 – 10:40 SCREEN and Factorbook: tools for exploring non-coding regulatory elements in the human genome
Henry Pratt
10:40 – 11:00 A comparative analysis of ENCODE and Cistrome in the context of TF binding signal
Stefano Perna, Pietro Pinoli, Stefano Ceri and Limsoon Wong
11:00 – 11:20 MethylSeqLogo: DNA methylation smart sequence logos
Fei-Man Hsu and Paul Horton
11:20 – 11:40 Predicting splicing patterns from the transcription factor binding sites in the promoter with deep learning
Tzu-Chieh Lin, Cheng-Hung Tsai, Cheng-Kai Shiau, Jia-Hsin Huang and Huai-Kuang Tsai
11:40 – 13:00 Lunch off-site
(locals can help international participants find food in small groups)
13:00 – 15:00
Special Sesssion Invited Talks
Michiaki Hamada
AI aptamer drug discovery
Yoshinori Fukasawa
Solutions and new challenges in the accurate long read era
Wei-Cheng Lo
Protein structure prediction: has our 50-year-old dream been achieved?
Wataru Iwasaki
Bioinformatics for revealing rules behind gene-content evolution
15:00 – 15:30 ☕  Coffee Break  ☕
Day 3, Afternoon Session
Session chair Wesson Wu
15:30 – 15:50 ThermalProGAN: a sequence-based thermally stable protein generator trained using un-paired data
Hui-Ling Huang, Chong-Heng Weng, Torbjörn E. M. Nordling and Yi-Fan Liou
15:50 – 16:10 Evaluating network-based missing protein prediction using p-values, Bayes Factors, and probabilities
Wilson Wen Bin Goh, Kong Weijia and Limsoon Wong
16:10 – 16:30 A Deconvolution Approach to Unveiling the Immune Microenvironment of Complex Tissues and Tumors in Transcriptomics
Shu-Hwa Chen, Bo-Yi Yu, Wen-Yu Kuo, Ya-Bo Lin, Sheng-Yao Sue, I-Hsuan Lu, Chung-Yen Lin and Wei-Hsuan Chuang
16:30 – 16:50 Effective modeling of the chromatin structure by coarse-grained methods
Irina Tuszynska, Paweł Bednarz and Bartek Wilczynski
16:50 – 17:05 Awards & Closing Remarks