DIMACS Workshop on Combinatorial Methods for DNA Mapping and Sequencing
October 6, 1994 thru October 9, 1994
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
- Organizers:
- Pavel Pevzner (CS Dept., Penn State) [pevzner@cse.pesu.edu]
- Charles Cantor (Center for Advanced Biotechnology, Boston U.)
- Program Committee:
- Pat Gillevet (National Center for Human Genome Research)
- Richard Karp (CS, U.C. Berkeley)
- Maynard Olson (Molecular Biotechnology, Washington)
- Gene Myers (CS, Arizona)
- Mihalis Yannakakis (AT&T Bell Labs)
Presented under the auspices of the Special Year in Mathematical Support for Molecular Biology.
Call for Participation
In the context of the 1994-95 DIMACS special year on Mathematical
Support for Molecular Biology, a four day workshop on "Combinatorial
Methods for DNA Mapping and Sequencing" will be held on October 6 -
October 9, 1994. The focus of the workshop will be on the
computational problems involved in mapping and sequencing DNA. The
scope encompasses the mathematical problems motivated by DNA mapping
and sequencing with a strong emphasis on applications of combinatorial
methods in molecular biology. The goal is to create a dialogue between
biologists and computer scientists. We aim to offer a setting for
relaxed and productive professional interaction, and hope that the
workshop activities will expand the participants' research interests
and promote collaborations between biologists and computer scientists.
PARTICIPATION
The workshop will be held at DIMACS at Rutgers University, Piscataway,
New Jersey. DIMACS is the NSF science and technology center for
discrete mathematics and computer science. It is a consortium of
Rutgers and Princeton Universities, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and
Bellcore.
- Co-organizers for this workshop are:
- Charles Cantor - co-chair (Center for Adv. Biotechnology, Boston U.)
- Patrick Gillevet (National Center for Human Genome Research, NIH)
- Richard Karp (Comp. Sci. Div., U. of California, Berkeley)
- Maynard Olson (Molecular Biotechnology Dept, U. of Washington)
- Gene Myers (Comp.Sci. Dept., University of Arizona)
- Pavel Pevzner - co-chair (Dept. of Comp. Sci. and Eng., Penn State U.)
- Mihalis Yannakakis (Bell Labs) mihalis@research.att.com
The workshop will include invited presentations, contributed talks,
poster presentations, software demonstrations and an open problems
session. Limited number of contributed talks will be selected by the
Workshop Committee for inclusion in the program. Contributions from
junior researchers are encouraged. Contributed talks, poster
presentations and software demonstrations are solicited in all areas
of DNA mapping and sequencing.
Applications for contributed talks, poster presentations and software
demonstrations should be received by July 1, 1994 at:
- Pavel A. Pevzner (DNA Mapping and Sequencing Workshop)
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering
- The Pennsylvania State University
- University Park, PA 16802
- (814) 863-3599
- pevzner@cse.psu.edu
Requests for contributed talks, poster presentations and software
demonstrations should include a 1 page hard-copy abstract plus any
other supporting data such as a copy of a paper, a statement of
interest, or a summary of related research by the individual. Authors
will be notified of acceptance by July,30. The authors of the
accepted applications will be invited to contribute a paper to the
special issue, "DNA Mapping and Sequencing", of the new Journal of
Computational Biology.
We invite contributions of open problems which will generate
discussions and collaborations. In order to make the Open Problems
Session more productive, participants are urged to submit problems in
advance of the workshop dates. Each submission should include
information on the origin/context of the problem, partial results and
known special cases as appropriate, and references.
Please send each submission to:
- Dr. Gene Myers
- Computer Science Dept.
- University of Arizona
- Tucson, AZ 85721
gene@cs.arizona.edu
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