09.15 Arrival             9.50 Welcome

SESSION

I

Chair:

 Dr Darren R Flower (EJIVR)

10.00

Paul Taylor (EJIVR)

Winner: Young Bioinformatician of the Year 2003

Membrane Protein Topology Prediction:
 A Bayesian Approach

[Abstract] [PowerPoint]

10.25

Danielle Talbot (Univ. of Reading)

Improving Sequence Alignment
for Protein Modelling

[Abstract][PowerPoint]

10.50

Ian Shadforth (Cranfield Univ.)

Genome Annotation Using Proteomic MS

[Abstract] [PowerPoint]

11.15 Tea / Coffee

SESSION

II

Chair:

 Dr Andrew Hynes (Etiologics Ltd)

11.45

Ben Blackburne (Univ. of Nottingham)

The Rough Guide to Evolutionary Landscapes:
Using Functional Model Proteins
to Examine Molecular Evolution

[Abstract][PowerPoint]

12.10

Mark DePristo (Univ. of Cambridge)

Highly Commended Talk

Structural heterogeneity and
protein X-ray crystallography

[Abstract][PDF]

12.35

M Madan Babu (LMB, Cambridge)

Highly Commended Talk

Gene Regulatory Network Growth By Duplication

[Abstract][PowerPoint]

13.00 Lunch

SESSION III

Chair:

Dr Alasdair Stamp (CellTech Group)

14.00

Lachlan Coin (Sanger Centre)

Using context and phylogeny to extend
HMM methods for protein domains

[Abstract][PowerPoint]

14.25

Jayshree Patel (Univ. of Sheffield)

Exploring protein-nucleic acid
interactions at the atomic level

[Abstract][PowerPoint]

14.50 Tea / Coffee

SESSION IV

Chair:

Dr Sally Prime (Maproom Consultants)

15.20

James Bradford (Univ. of Leeds)

Using Support Vector Machines
to predict binding sites on protein surfaces:
application to the docking problem

[Abstract][PowerPoint]

15.45

Aik Choon Tan (Univ. of Glasgow)

Multi-class protein fold classification
using an integrative machine learning approach

[Abstract][PowerPoint]

SESSION IV

Chair:

Dr Fiona Reid (OXSEC)

16.10

Presentations