MLCB Workshop 2009
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Friday, December 11, 2009, 07:30–18:30
Morning Sessions
Session 1, chair: Yanjun Qi
7.45-8.10 Direct maximization of protein identifications from tandem mass spectra.
Marina Spivak, Jason Weston, Michael J. MacCoss and William Stafford Noble
8.10-8.35 Exploiting physico-chemical properties in string-kernels.
Nora Toussaint, Oliver Kohlbacher and Gunnar Rätsch
8.35-9.00 A Bayesian method for 3D reconstruction of macromolecular structure using class averages from single particle electron microscopy.
Navdeep Jaitly, Marcus Brubaker, John Rubinstein and Ryan Lilien
9.00-9.15 Coffee
Session 2, chair: Bill Noble
9.15-9.40 vbFRET: A Bayesian approach to single-molecule forster resonance energy transfer analysis.
Jonathan Bronson and Chris Wiggins
9.40-10.05 Leveraging joint test status distribution for an optimal significance testing.
Buhm Han, Chun Ye, Ted Choi and Eleazar Eskin
10.05-10.30 Statistical methods for ultra-deep pyrosequencing of fast evolving viruses.
David Knowles and Susan Holmes
Afternoon Sessions
Session 3, chair: Alex Zien
3.45-4.10 A machine learning pipeline for phenotype prediction from genotype data.
Giorgio Guzzetta, Giuseppe Jurman and Cesare Furlanello
4.10-4.35 Association mapping of traits over time using Gaussian processes.
Oliver Stegle and Karsten Borgwardt
4.35-5.00 Learning graphical model structure with sparse Bayesian factor models and process priors.
Ricardo Henao and Ole Winther
5.00-5.15 Coffee
Session 4, chair: Gal Chechik
5.15-5.40 Scalable hierarchical multitask learning in sequence biology.
Christian Widmer, Jose Leiva, Yasemin Altun and Gunnar Raetsch
5.40-6.05 Abstraction augmented Markov models.
Cornelia Caragea, Adrian Silvescu, Doina Caragea and Vasant Honavar
6.05-6.30 Discussion

