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5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

AlCoB 2018

Hong Kong

June 25-26, 2018

Co-organized by:

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Department of Computing

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/AlCoB2018/
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PROGRAM

Monday, June 25

09:00 - 09:30���� ��Registration

09:30 - 09:40���� ��Opening

09:40 - 10:30���� ��Tatsuya Akutsu. Algorithms for Analysis and Control of Boolean Networks - Invited lecture

10:30 - 11:00���� ��Coffee break

11:00 - 12:15

Ricson Cheng, Matthew Dohlen, Chen Pekker, Gabriel Quiroz, Jincheng Wang, Ran Libeskind-Hadas and Yi-Chieh Wu. Reconciliation Feasibility of Non-binary Gene Trees under a Duplication-Loss-Coalescence Model

Andreas Dwi Maryanto Gunawan. Solving the Tree Containment Problem for Reticulation-visible Networks in Linear Time

Leo van Iersel, Remie Janssen, Mark Jones, Yukihiro Murakami and Norbert Zeh. Polynomial-time Algorithms for Phylogenetic Inference Problems

12:15 - 13:45���� ��Lunch

13:45 - 14:35���� ��Ben Raphael. Algorithms for Cancer Evolution - Invited lecture

14:35 - 14:50���� ��Break and Group photo

14:50 - 16:05

Alexsandro Alexandrino, Carla Lintzmayer and Zanoni Dias. Approximation Algorithms for Sorting Permutations by Fragmentation-weighted Operations

Klairton Brito, Andre Rodrigues Oliveira, Ulisses Dias and Zanoni Dias. Heuristics for the Sorting Signed Permutations by Reversals and Transpositions Problem

Guilherme Miranda, Carla Negri Lintzmayer and Zanoni Dias. Sorting Permutations by Limited-size Operations

16:05 - 16:20���� ��Coffee break

16:20 - 17:10���� ��Poster presentations

17:15 - 19:15���� ��Touristic visit

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Tuesday, June 26

09:00 - 09:50���� ��Bin Ma. De Novo Protein Sequencing with Mass Spectrometry and Its Medical Applications - Invited lecture

09:50 - 10:20���� ��Coffee break

10:20 - 11:35

Michael Sadovsky, Sergey Tsarev and Maria Senashova. Fast Algorithm for Vernier Search of Long Repeats in DNA Sequences with Bounded Error Density

Eugen Czeizler, Alexandru Popa and Victor Popescu. Fixed Parameter Algorithms and Hardness of Approximation Results for the Structural Target Controllability Problem

Chenqi Mou. Symbolic Detection of Steady States of Autonomous Differential Biological Systems by Transformation into Block Triangular Form

11:35 - 11:50���� ��Break

11:50 - 12:40

Jordi Silvestre-Ryan and Ian Holmes. Consensus Decoding of Recurrent Neural Network Basecallers

Ezra B. Wijaya, Erwandy Lim, David Agustriawan, Chien-Hung Huang, Jeffrey J.P. Tsai and Ka-Lok Ng. Utilizing Imputation and Meta-analysis to Identify DNA-methylation-mediated MicroRNAs in Ovarian Cancer

12:40 - 12:50���� ��Closing

12:50 -���� ������ ��Lunch