10th Bologna Winter School: Provisional Programme

MACHINE LEARNING AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

Bologna (Italy, February 2-6, 2009)

Caffè della Corte, Corte Isolani 5/B, Bologna

 

   

  MONDAY 2
   9:00- 9:45 Registration   ("Caffè della Corte", Corte Isolani 5/B, Bologna)
  9:45-10:00 Welcome introduction: Rita Casadio (School chair) and Roberto Grandi (Pro-Rector for International relations)
10:00-13:00 Paolo Frasconi Introduction to Graphical Models
13:00-15:00
Lunch
15:00-16:30
Roderic Guigò The transcriptional complexity of the Human Genome: insigths from next generation sequencing instruments
16:30-17:00
Coffee Break
17:00-18:30 BioSapiens Corner
Michael Tress

Alternative splicing and functional complexity
 
TUESDAY 3
10:00-13:00 Florence d'Alché -Buc Dynamical Bayesian networks and applications to biological network reconstruction
13:00-15:00 Lunch
15:00-17:00
Student's Corner Presentations from the participants to the School

WEDNESDAY 4
10:00-13:00 Anders Krogh Hidden Markov models in Computational Biology
13:00-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:30 Arthur Lesk
Motifs and modules in biological networks, or, How not to become a systems biologist
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-18:30 BioSapiens Corner
Anna Tramontano

The state of the art of the prediction of protein structure and function

THURSDAY 5
10:00-13:00 Massimiliano Pontil Introduction to Support Vector Machines and kernels
13:00-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:30
David Jones Applying machine learning to protein structure and function prediction

FRIDAY 6
10:00-13:00 Gianluca Pollastri Introduction to Neural Networks
13:00-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:30 Dmitrij Frishman Protein annotation at the genomic scale
16:30-17:00
Concluding remarks