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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