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Program Schedule:

Understanding the Genome:
Technological and Mathematical Challenges
May 21-23, 1998 at MSRI

THURSDAY, MAY 21
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9:30 Elbert Branscomb(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Comparative Genomics: What, Why, Problems and Challenges
10:30 Tea
11:00 Robert Lipshutz (Affymetrix) Genes, Chips, and Genomes
12:00 Lunch
2:00 David Botstein (Stanford) Of Genes and Genomes
3:00 Tea
3:30 David Haussler (UC Santa Cruz) Using Hidden Markov Models for Biosequence Analysis: Recent Tests and New Methods
4:30 Reception, MSRI

FRIDAY, MAY 22
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9:00 Leroy Hood (University of Washington) Future Mathematical Challenges Posed by the Systems Analysis of Genomes and Proteomes
10:00 Tea
10:30 Donna Slonim (Whitehead Institute) Mining Gene Expression Data
11:30 Pavel Pevzner (USC) Gene Hunting Without Genomic Sequencing: the Twenty Questions Game with Genes
12:30 Lunch
2:30 Ellen Wijsman (University of Washington) Statistical and Computational Contributions to Gene Mapping: History and Current Developments
3:30 Tea
4:00 David Siegmund(Stanford) Statistical aspects of gene mapping

SATURDAY, MAY 23
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9:00 Gary Stormo (University of Colorado) Uncovering Regulatory Networks Using Pattern Recognition Algorithms
10:00 Tea
10:30 Gary Churchill (Cornell) Assessing Uncertainty in Sequence Alignments
11:30 Phil Green (University of Washington) Genome Sequence Assembly