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Program

14th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society

July 5-7, 2017 Cagliari, Italy

 

July 3td – Satellite events

 

09:15 - 12:15

GPU applications in Bioinformatics

 

14:30 - 18:30

Galaxy for Bioinformatics tool developers

 

 

  

July 4th – Satellite events

 

09:00 - 13:00

Galaxy for Bioinformatics tool developers

 

14:00 – 18:30

Galaxy for Bioinformatics tool developers

 

 

 

July 5th – Satellite events

 

09:00 - 13:30

Galaxy for Bioinformatics tool developers

 

09:00 - 13:30

ELIXIR-IIB: The Italian Infrastructure for Bioinformatics 

 

 

                    July 5th 

10:00 - 14:30

Registration

13:30 - 14:30

Welcome party

14:30 - 14:45

Opening remarks 

 

14:45

Session 1: Disease Genomics and Next Generation Sequencing

14:45 - 15:30

Preparata Lecture – Andrew C.R. Martin

Effects of mutation and prediction of pathogenicity and phenotype

 

 

15:30 - 15:45

The impact of an in-house Italian exome database for variant prioritization.

Diaconu E, Onano S, Atzeni R, Cossu C, Cuccuru G, Cusano R, Oppo M, Zara I, Angius A, Crisponi L, Fotia G, Uva P.

 

 

15:45 - 16:00

Taxonomic classification of host-associated microbiome from shotgun metagenomics data using MetaShot.

Fosso B, Santamaria M, Pesole G.

 

 

16: 00 - 16:15

Discovering rare causative variants in undiagnosed diseases exploiting VarGenius an automated tool for variants discovery and annotation.

Musacchia F, Mutarelli M, Ciolfi A, Pinelli M, Torella A, Castello L , Tartaglia M, Banfi S, Nigro V.

 

 

16:15 - 16:30

Use of RNA-seq data to detect alternative polyadenylation events and characterize the effect of genetic variants on its regulation.

Mariella E, Grassi E, Gilotto S, Provero P.

 

 

16:30 - 16:45

Personalized assessment of response to induction chemo-therapy in patients with high-risk neuroblastoma

Cangelosi D, Morini M, Zanardi N, Luksch R, Sementa AR, Varesio L

   

16:45 - 17:00

Presentation of BITS 2018

Calogero R, Cordero F.

 

 

17:00 - 19:00

BITS Assembly

 

July 6th

 

 

09:00

Session 2: Protein structure and function

 

 

09:00 - 09:45

BITS Lecture: Manuela Helmer Citterich

RNA secondary structure: a key for molecular function

 

 

09:45 - 10:00

Bioinformatics of Metalloproteins

Andreini C, Banci L, Rosato A.

 

 

10:00 - 10:15

Identification of molecular determinants of CXCR3-gliadin-mediated triggering of intestinal permeability.

Carisetti M, Moscatelli M, Longeri M, Milanesi L, Mezzelani A, Chiappori F.

 

 

10:15 - 10:30

Simulating the interactions of a novel cephalosporin derivative with different betalactamases.

Verdino A, Zollo F, Soriente A, De Rosa M, Marabotti A.

 

10:30 - 10:45

Coloring protein darkness.

Necci M, Piovesan D, Tosatto SCE.

 

10:45 - 12:00

Poster Session – Coffee Break

 

12:00

Session 3: Systems Biology

 

 

12:00 - 12:15

LASSIE: a GPU-based large-scale simulator of biological systems

Tangherloni A, Nobile MS, Besozzi D, Mauri G, Cazzaniga P.

 

 

12:15 - 12:30

Insights from de novo transcriptome analysis on molecular response of two benthic diatoms on sea urchins Paracentrotus lividus

Ruocco N, Costantini S, Zupo V, Romano G, Ianora A, Fontana A, Costantini M.

 

12:30 - 12:45

Systems Biology approaches investigating metabolic heterogeneity, fitness function definition and relationship between metabolic flux and metabolite concentration.

Colombo R, Damiani C, Di Filippo M, Maspero D, Pescini D, Mauri G.

 

 

12:45 - 13:00

A systems biology approach to study the correlation between Arsenicals and Bladder Cancer.

Polo A, Crispo A, Cerino P, De Petro G, Ciliberto G, Montella M, Budillon A, Costantini S.

 

 

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

 

 

14:00

Session 4: Algorithms for Bioinformatics

 

 

14:00 - 14:45

Invited speaker – Paolo Missier

Preserving the currency of genomics outcomes over time through selective re-computation: model and initial findings

 

 

14:45 - 15:00

Using φ-d diagrams for discovering variable importance in bioinformatics.

Armano G, Giuliani A.

 

 

15:00 - 15:15

GARS: a clustering-based Genetic Algorithm for the identification of Robust Subsets of variables in high-dimensional and challenging datasets.

Chiesa M, Piacentini L, Colombo GI.

 

 

15:15 - 15:30

CASC: Classification Analysis of Single Cell Sequencing Data.

Alessandri L, Beccuti M, Calogero RA.

 

 

15:30 - 15:45

REDItools 2.0: RNA editing detection in minutes on HPC infrastructures.

Flati T, Gioiosa S, Chillemi, G, Pesole G, Castrignanò T, Picardi E.

 

 

15:45 - 16:00

Findings from the Fourth Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation, a community experiment to evaluate phenotype prediction.

Andreoletti G, Hoskins RA, Moult J , Brenner SE, CAGI Participants.

 

 

16:00 - 16:15

GLAlign: a novel local alignment algorithm exploiting global alignment preprocessing

Milano M, Guzzi PH, Cannataro M.

   

16:15 - 20:30

Social Activities

 

 

20:30 - 23:00

Social Dinner

 

July 7th 

 

 

09:00

Session 5: Databases and Big Data application in Bioinformatics

 

 

09:00 - 09:45

Invited speaker – Dominik Heider

Computational Approaches for MDx Applications: From Academia to Industry

 

 

09:45 - 10:00

Integrating genomic data information in EHR, a structured approach.

Mascia C, Uva P, Zanetti G.

 

 

10:00 - 10:15

Leveraging Stream Processing Technology for Genomics.

Versaci F, Pireddu L, Zanetti G.

 

 

10:15 - 10:30

CAMUR-Web: A classification software and a big knowledge base for gene expression data of cancer.

Weitschek E, Di Lauro S , Cappelli E, Felici G, Bertolazzi P.

 

 

10:30 - 10:45

Automating Galaxy Workflow Testing.

Piras ME, Pireddu L, Zanetti G.

 

 

10:45 - 11:00

HPC bioinformatics resources for ELIXIR scientific community

Gioiosa S, Flati T, D’Antonio M, Zambelli F, Chiara M, Picardi E., Pesole G, Castrignanò T,Chillemi G.

 

11:00 - 11:45

Poster Session - Coffee Break

 

11:45

Session 6: Molecular Evolution

 

 

11:45 - 12:30

Invited speaker – Alexander Kel

“Walking pathways”, cancer and evolution

 

 

12:30 - 12:45

Evolutionary rewiring of the human regulatory network by waves of genome expansion.

Marnetto D, Molineris I, Mantica F, Grassi E, Pesando I, Provero P.

 

 

12:45 - 13:00

CpG methylation detection of human mtDNA by nanopore sequencing

Diroma MA, Picardi E, Pesole G.

 

 

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

 

 

14:00

Session 7: Genome 3D: Bioinformatics, computing infrastructure and opportunities for Chromatin Conformation Analysis

 

 

14:00 - 14:45

Invited speaker – Pietro Liò

Comparative analysis of deep learning architectures for multiomic inference

 

 

14:45 - 15:00

Comparison of computational methods for the analysis of Hi-C data.

Forcato M, Nicoletti C, Pal K, Livi CM, Ferrari F, Bicciato S.

 

 

15:00 - 15:15

Transcriptional up-regulation and conformation differences in D. melanogaster dosage compensation of chromosome X.

Pal K, Forcato M , Sexton T , Cavalli G , Ferrari F.

 

 

15:15 - 15:30

3D Chromatin structure estimation from Chromosome Conformation Capture data.

Caudai C, Salerno E, Zoppè M, Tonazzini A.

 

 

15:30 - 16:00

Conclusions – Giuliano Armano, Luciano Milanesi

 

 

 

 

July 8th – Satellite events

 

09.00 - 11:00

Tutorial - Modeling transcription regulation for system medicine of common human diseases

 

11:30 - 13:30

Tutorial - Workflow management of bioinformatics data using Orange