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5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY<br><br>
AlCoB 2018<br><br>
Hong Kong<br><br>
June 25-26, 2018<br><br>
Co-organized by:<br><br>
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University<br>
Department of Computing<br><br>
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)<br>
Rovira i Virgili University<br><br>
http://grammars.grlmc.com/AlCoB2018/<br>
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PROGRAM<br><br>
Monday, June 25<br><br>
09:00 - 09:30 Registration<br><br>
09:30 - 09:40 Opening<br><br>
09:40 - 10:30 Tatsuya Akutsu. Algorithms for Analysis and Control of Boolean Networks - Invited lecture<br><br>
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break<br><br>
11:00 - 12:15<br><br>
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<br><br>
Andreas Dwi Maryanto Gunawan. Solving the Tree Containment Problem for Reticulation-visible Networks in Linear Time<br><br>
Leo van Iersel, Remie Janssen, Mark Jones, Yukihiro Murakami and Norbert Zeh. Polynomial-time Algorithms for Phylogenetic Inference Problems<br><br>
12:15 - 13:45 Lunch<br><br>
13:45 - 14:35 Ben Raphael. Algorithms for Cancer Evolution - Invited lecture<br><br>
14:35 - 14:50 Break and Group photo<br><br>
14:50 - 16:05<br><br>
Alexsandro Alexandrino, Carla Lintzmayer and Zanoni Dias. Approximation Algorithms for Sorting Permutations by Fragmentation-weighted Operations<br><br>
Klairton Brito, Andre Rodrigues Oliveira, Ulisses Dias and Zanoni Dias. Heuristics for the Sorting Signed Permutations by Reversals and Transpositions Problem<br><br>
Guilherme Miranda, Carla Negri Lintzmayer and Zanoni Dias. Sorting Permutations by Limited-size Operations<br><br>
16:05 - 16:20 Coffee break<br><br>
16:20 - 17:10 Poster presentations<br><br>
17:15 - 19:15 Touristic visit<br><br>
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Tuesday, June 26<br><br>
09:00 - 09:50 Bin Ma. De Novo Protein Sequencing with Mass Spectrometry and Its Medical Applications - Invited lecture<br><br>
09:50 - 10:20 Coffee break<br><br>
10:20 - 11:35<br><br>
Michael Sadovsky, Sergey Tsarev and Maria Senashova. Fast Algorithm for Vernier Search of Long Repeats in DNA Sequences with Bounded Error Density<br><br>
Eugen Czeizler, Alexandru Popa and Victor Popescu. Fixed Parameter Algorithms and Hardness of Approximation Results for the Structural Target Controllability Problem<br><br>
Chenqi Mou. Symbolic Detection of Steady States of Autonomous Differential Biological Systems by Transformation into Block Triangular Form<br><br>
11:35 - 11:50 Break<br><br>
11:50 - 12:40<br><br>
Jordi Silvestre-Ryan and Ian Holmes. Consensus Decoding of Recurrent Neural Network Basecallers<br><br>
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<br><br>
12:40 - 12:50 Closing<br><br>
12:50 - Lunch</body></html>