Date	Time	Paper Title	Authors	Affiliation
Friday 10/20/2006	6:00pm	Registration, poster setup
		Session I
	7:00pm	Pharmacogenomics: Analyzing SNPs	Mark Ebbert, Timothy OConnor, Wesley Beckstead, Mark Clement, David McClellan	Brigham Young University
	7:20	A dense multiplexed microsatellite marker set for reliable, cost effective genotyping	Robert Kolts, Elliott Richards, Sam Asby, Will Brubaker, Edward Wilcox	Brigham Young University
	7:40	Molecular Coevolution of the Vertebrate Cytochrome c1 and Rieske Iron Sulfur Protein in the Cytochrome bc1 Complex	Kimberly Baer, David A. McClellan	Brigham Young University
	8:00	Effects of Gap Open and Gap Extension Penalties	Hyrum Carroll, Perry Ridge, Mark Clement, Quinn Snell	Brigham Young University

	8:20pm	Poster Session with Pizza
Saturday 10/21/2006	8:00am	Registration, Continental Breakfast
	8:30am	Keynote Speaker -- High Throughput Mouse Knockouts	Wade Walke	Lexicon Genetics, Inc.
		Session II
	9:30	Computational Analysis of the Distribution of Short Repeated Motifs in Human Genomic Sequences	Abanish Singh, Nikola Stojanovic	University of Texas at Arlington
	9:50	Evolutionary selective pressure on three mitochondrial SNPs is consistent with their influence on metabolic efficiency in Pima Indians	Srikar Chamala, Wesley A. Beckstead, Mark J. Rowe, David McClellan	Brigham Young University
	10:10	Protein Interactions Extrapolated from Feline Protein Complexes	Shawn Martin, Zisu Mao, Linda Chan, Suraiya Rasheed	Sandia National Laboratories, University of Southern California
	10:30	Comparing the Performance of Several Popular Machine Learning Algorithms	Raja Loganantharaj	University of Louisiana
	10:50	Break/Poster Session
		Session III
	11:10	Prediction of Protein Coding Regions on a Programmable VLIW Architecture	Adeel Yusuf, Dawood Khan, Shoab Khan	Centre for Advanced Studies in Engineering, Pakistan
	11:30	Conservative adjustment of permutation p-values when the number of permutations is limited	Yinglei Lai	George Washington University
	11:50	Invited Speaker - protein-DNA interactions and identification of HTH DNA-binding motifs	Changhui (Charles) Yan	Utah State University
	12:10	Lunch/Poster review
	12:40	Keynote Speaker - The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG)	Lewis Frey	University of Utah
		Session IV
	1:30	Improving Performance of DNA Sequencing-by-Hybridization with Gapped-Probes via Domain Knowledge	Zong He Cai, Hon Wai Leong	National University of Singapore
	1:50	An algorithm with linear expected running time for string editing with substitutions and substring reversals	Abdullah Arslan	University of Vermont
	2:10	On Predicting Secondary Structure Transition	Raja Loganantharaj, Vivek Philip	University of Louisiana
	2:30	Invited Speaker - Protein folding on the hexagonal lattice in the HP model	Minghui Jiang	Utah State University
	2:50	Best Student Paper Award - Concluding Remarks
	3:00	Leave for Airport to avoid football game traffic!

Posters

Paper Title	Authors	Affiliation
SAP (Sequence Alignment Based Gene Prediction): A fast and novel tool for gene prediction	Charu Smita, Ramesh Joshi	IIT Roorkee, India
Semantic Based Retrieval of Biomedical Literature	Raja Loganantharaj, Vardarajan Narayan	University of Louisiana
Preliminary Analysis of the Effects of Selection on Physicochemical Properties in the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor	Richard L. Smith, Seth A. Loughmiller, David A McClellan	Brigham Young University
Computational Identification of Regulatory elements in Silico	Vinay Singh	J.P.University of Information Technology, India
HTML Table Interpretation by Sibling Page Comparison in the Molecular Biology Domain	Cui Tao, David Embley	Brigham Young University
Genetic Code Population Dynamics in a Simulated System of Protocells	Jerrisha Butler, Francis Uzowulu, David Digby, William Seffens	Clark Atlanta University