Machine Learning in Bioinformatics Conference

Brussels, Friday October 17th, 2003

9h00-17h00

Organized by the FWO scientific network
Machine Learning for data mining and its applications

Local organizing committee
Thomas Hamelryck, Bernard Manderick, Ann Nowé
Computational modeling lab (COMO)
Department of Computer Science (DINF)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Pleinlaan 2
B-1050 Brussel
Belgium

Location
Erasmushogeschool Brussel
IWT Departement - Auditorium 5
Nijverheidskaai 170
1070 Brussel

Confirmed speakers

9h30 - Graphical models and Bayesian methods in Bioinformatics
Zoubin Ghahramani
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London
Slides (Gzipped Postscript)

10h30 - Coffee break

11h00 - Teaching computers to fold proteins
Anders Krogh
Bioinformatics center, Copenhagen University
Slides (PDF)

12h00 - Lunch

13h30 - Seeking for new structural folds in the protein sequence space
Michal Linial
Department of Biological Chemistry, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Slides (PPT)

14h30 - Development of technologies for large-scale knowledge-engineering in the Post-genomic era
Stephen Muggleton
Computational Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London
Slides (PDF)

15h30 - Coffee break

16h00 - Support vector machines in computational biology
Jean-Philippe Vert
Centre de Geostatistique, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Fontainebleau
Slides (PDF)

17h00 - End