AlCoB 2018: call for participation********************************************************************************** 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AlCoB 2018 Hong Kong June 25-26, 2018 Co-organized by: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Department of Computing Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/AlCoB2018/ ********************************************************************************** PROGRAM Monday, June 25 09:00 - 09:30 Registration 09:30 - 09:40 Opening 09:40 - 10:30 Tatsuya Akutsu. Algorithms for Analysis and Control of Boolean Networks - Invited lecture 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 - 12:15 Ricson Cheng, Matthew Dohlen, Chen Pekker, Gabriel Quiroz, Jincheng Wang, Ran Libeskind-Hadas and Yi-Chieh Wu. Reconciliation Feasibility of Non-binary Gene Trees under a Duplication-Loss-Coalescence Model Andreas Dwi Maryanto Gunawan. Solving the Tree Containment Problem for Reticulation-visible Networks in Linear Time Leo van Iersel, Remie Janssen, Mark Jones, Yukihiro Murakami and Norbert Zeh. Polynomial-time Algorithms for Phylogenetic Inference Problems 12:15 - 13:45 Lunch 13:45 - 14:35 Ben Raphael. Algorithms for Cancer Evolution - Invited lecture 14:35 - 14:50 Break and Group photo 14:50 - 16:05 Alexsandro Alexandrino, Carla Lintzmayer and Zanoni Dias. Approximation Algorithms for Sorting Permutations by Fragmentation-weighted Operations Klairton Brito, Andre Rodrigues Oliveira, Ulisses Dias and Zanoni Dias. Heuristics for the Sorting Signed Permutations by Reversals and Transpositions Problem Guilherme Miranda, Carla Negri Lintzmayer and Zanoni Dias. Sorting Permutations by Limited-size Operations 16:05 - 16:20 Coffee break 16:20 - 17:10 Poster presentations 17:15 - 19:15 Touristic visit --- Tuesday, June 26 09:00 - 09:50 Bin Ma. De Novo Protein Sequencing with Mass Spectrometry and Its Medical Applications - Invited lecture 09:50 - 10:20 Coffee break 10:20 - 11:35 Michael Sadovsky, Sergey Tsarev and Maria Senashova. Fast Algorithm for Vernier Search of Long Repeats in DNA Sequences with Bounded Error Density Eugen Czeizler, Alexandru Popa and Victor Popescu. Fixed Parameter Algorithms and Hardness of Approximation Results for the Structural Target Controllability Problem Chenqi Mou. Symbolic Detection of Steady States of Autonomous Differential Biological Systems by Transformation into Block Triangular Form 11:35 - 11:50 Break 11:50 - 12:40 Jordi Silvestre-Ryan and Ian Holmes. Consensus Decoding of Recurrent Neural Network Basecallers Ezra B. Wijaya, Erwandy Lim, David Agustriawan, Chien-Hung Huang, Jeffrey J.P. Tsai and Ka-Lok Ng. Utilizing Imputation and Meta-analysis to Identify DNA-methylation-mediated MicroRNAs in Ovarian Cancer 12:40 - 12:50 Closing 12:50 - Lunch