NETTAB 2006: Scientific Programme

Distributed Applications, Web Services, Tools and GRID Infrastructures for Bioinformatics

Scientific Program (Download here a printable version)
Monday, July 10, 2006 (at Is Morus Relais)
10.00-13.00	Registration and poster hang up
13.00-14.00	Lunch
14.00-14.40	Opening lecture BIOINFOGRID: Bioinformatics GRID based applications overview Luciano Milanesi, Institute of Biomedical Technology (CNR-ITB), Milan, Italy
14.40-15.20	Invited lecture ICT technologies involved with GRID infrastructures G. P. Maggi, INFN, Bari, Italy
15.20-15.40	Coffee break
15.40-17.00	First Session: GRID infrastructures for bioinformatics Replication and Update of Molecular Biology Databases in a Grid Environment J. Salzemann, N. Jacq, G. Le Mahec, and V. Breton A Grid infrastructure for managing workflows in bioinformatics applications A. Falzone, M. Melato, I. Porro, S. Ratto, A. Schenone, and L. Torterolo A GRID-based multilayer architecture for bioinformatics E. Bartocci, D. Cacciagrano, N. Cannata, F. Corradini, E. Merelli, L. Milanesi, and P. Romano A Service-oriented Grid Infrastructure for Biomedical Data and Compute Services T. Arbona, S. Benkner, J. Fingberg, G. Engelbrecht, M. Hofmann, K. Kumpf, G. Lonsdale and A. Wöhrer
Tuesday, July 11, 2006 (at Is Morus Relais)
09.00-09.40	Invited lecture Setting up a Bioinformatics service Center in a distributed environment Patricia Rodriguez-Tomé, CRS4 Bioinformatics, Cagliari, Italy, Dominik Girard, University of Paris VII, France
09.40-10.40	Second Session: Web Services, Software Agents, and Ontologies Modeling gene expression data via positive Boolean functions F. Ruffino, M. Muselli, and G. Valentini Unsupervised Method as a Quality Control Tool Improves the Microarray Analysis of Brain Gene Expression in Alcohol Research A. Lourdusamy, M. Ubaldi, L. Soverchia, R. Ciccocioppo, and E. Merelli XML modeling of miRNA S. Lopez, G. Lu, and Z. Chen (not presented, see the paper)
10.40-13.00	Coffee break and poster session
13.00-14.00	Lunch
14.00-15.20	Third Session: Web Services, Software Agents, and Ontologies (cont.d) Extraction of functionally similar bioinformatics workflows J. Seo, S. Senoo, Y. Takenaka, and H. Matsuda Bioinformatics Ontology: Towards the Automatics Generation of Bioinformatics Workflow for Web Services A. Konagaya A MultiAgent System for Retrieving Bioinformatics Publications from Web Sources A. Addis, A. Manconi, M. Saba, and E. Vargiu Pathway Assistant: a web portal for metabolic modelling P. Parikka, E. Pitkänen, A. Rantanen, A. Åkerlund, and E. Ukkonen
15.20-15.40	Coffee break
15.40-16.20	Invited lecture The EELA project: Biomedical Applications Rafael Mayo Garcia, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain, Bernd Schulz, CMX Co.
16.20-17.00	Fourth Session: GRID applications and perspectives in genomics and proteomics Microarray data infrastructure using GebbaLab A. Emerson, G. Fiameni, S. Giuliani, E. Rossi, and S. Volinia A GRID approach for finding functional analogous gene products G. Donvito, A. Tulipano, G. P. Maggi, and A. Gisel
20.00-22.00	Social dinner at "I giardini di Alice"
Wednesday, July 12, 2006 (at Is Morus Relais)
09.00-09.40	Invited lecture Grid-enabled life science applications: status and perspectives Vincent Breton, CNRS - IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Martin Birchier, Lynne Foundation
09.40-10.40	Fifth Session: GRID applications and perspectives in biomedical informatics Clinical-Genomics data modelling using HL7 standards in GebbaLab project S. D’Ascia and G. Frangiamone A Grid Approach for Large Data Processing in Biomedicine M. Fato, A. Papadimitropoulos, I. Porro, S. Scaglione, A. Schenone, L. Torterolo and F. Viti ImmunoGrid - The virtual human immune system project A. Emerson and E. Rossi
10.40-11.20	Invited lecture Grid-enabled High Throughput in-silico Screening Against Influenza A Neuraminidase Hurng-Chun Lee, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
11.20-11.40	Coffee break
11.40-13.00	Final Session Perspectives of GRID applications in biomedical research Panel discussion with all invited speakers Presentation of NETTAB 2007 Workshop Paolo Romano, Bioinformatics and Structural Proteomics, National Cancer Research Institute (IST), Italy Invited lecture The SeaLife project Albert Burger, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Farewell
13.00-14.00	Lunch
14.30-18.30	Boat tour leaving from Is Morus Relais
Thursday, July 13, 2006 (at POLARIS Science and Technology Park of Sardinia)
09.30-11.20	Tutorial 1A: bioMOBY concept, architecture, central repository and related tools Martin Senger, IRRI, Manila, Philippines Tutorial 1B: GRID Tools and infrastructures Giuseppe La Rocca, INFN Catania, Italy, Giacinto Donvito and Giorgio P. Maggi, INFN Bari, Italy
11.20-11.40	Coffee break
11.40-13.30	Tutorial 2A: Agents in bioGRID computing Emanuela Merelli, DMI, University of Camerino, Italy Tutorial 2B: GRID Tools and infrastructures Giuseppe La Rocca, INFN Catania, Italy, Giacinto Donvito and Giorgio P. Maggi, INFN Bari, Italy
13.30-14.30	Lunch
14.30-15.15	Meeting with representatives of research groups of POLARIS Science and Technology Park of Sardinia
15.15-15.30	Coffee break
15.30-17.20	Tutorial 3A: New bioinformatics applications based on Web Services technologies and GRID computing Tiziana Castrignanò, CASPUR, Rome, Italy Tutorial 3B: HPC infrastructures Claudio Arlandini, Raffaele Ponzini, CILEA, Segrate, Italy and Matteo Vit, Pierfrancesco Zuccato, Exadron-Eurotech, Amaro, Italy and Moreno Baricevic, Cnr - INFM Democritos, Trieste, Italy