Data Mining and Bioinformatics

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13:00 - 13:50 Arrival and registration (at EBI lobby)

13:50 Introduction (Alvis Brazma)

14:00 An Introduction to the Tools and Techniques of Data Mining (Dr. Rob Gerritsen, Exclusive Ore, data-mining consultant with Silicon Graphics USA)  (see abstract).

15:30 Tea, coffee

15:50 Finding patterns in sequences (Prof. Esko Ukkonen, University of Helsinki)

16:50 Clustering large sets of protein sequences (Dr. Martin Vingron, German Cancer Research Center)  (see abstract)

17:50 break

18:00 Bioinformatics: Use of automation and visual datamining (Dr.Michael Mueller, Molecular Applications Group)  (see abstract)

19:15 Departure for workshop dinner at Duxford Ludge

9:00 A brief introduction to DecisionHouse (DH) (A. Ewing & N. Skilling, Quadstone Ltd.)

9:30 Applications of DH to Bioinformatics

introduction (A.Brazma)
mining mutation database P53 (A.Brazma, A.Robinson)
using DH for gene splice site prediction (A.Thanaraj)

11:00 Coffee

mining the yeast gene expression data and annotations (A.Brazma)
some other applications - visualising genome comparison data (A.Brazma, P.Maccallum), protein subcellular location prediction (A.Reinhardt).

12:45 Lunch (lunch and Biovis End-user forum meeting)

14:00 Hands-on experience with the DH on bioinformatics data (at the Genome Campus Conference Centre training room).

18:00 Session end

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