Proceedings of the German Conference on Bioinformatics, GCB '97, Kloster Irsee, Bavaria, Germany, September 1997 Oxford University Press

Invited Talks

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  Ruben Abagyan, Serge Batalov, Timothy Cardozo, Maxim Totrov: From fold recognition to flexible docking. 9-10
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  Anthony Kerlavage: Perspectives on analysis and annotation of bacterial, archeal, and eukaryotic genomes. 11-12
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  Eugene V. Koonin, Roman L. Tatusov, David J. Lipman: A natural taxonomy of gene families from complete genomes. 13-14
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  Svante Pääbo: Genetic variation as a means to reconstruct human history. 15
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  Guorong Xu, Sing-Hoi Sze, Cheng-Pin Liu, Pavel A. Pevzner, Norman Arnheim: Gene Hunting without Sequencing Genomis Clones: the "Twenty Questions" game with genes. 17
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  David B. Searls: Languages, Automata, and Macromolecules. 19
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  Shoshana J. Wodak: Molecular Systematics in Three Dimensions. 21
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  André Goffeau: Informatics, genomics, proteomics and phylogenetics by the yeast Eurofanatics. 23

Seleeted Papers

Genome Analysis

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  Yan P. Yuan, Oliver Eulenstein, Martin Vingron, Peer Bork: Towards detection of sequence orthologs. 25-30
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  Thomas Dandekar, Katrin Beyer, Peer Bork, Vera Sonntag-Buck, Gilles Flouriot, Frank Gannon, W. Keller, Sonja Schreiber: Systematic genomic screening and analysis of mRNA in the 5' and 3` untranslated region. 31-32
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  Rainer Spang, Martin Vingron: Statistics of large scale sequence searching. 33-35
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  Karsten R. Heidtke, Steffen Schulze-Kremer: Qualitative reasoning on gene control and reproduction demonstrated on lambda phage growth. 37-39
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  Fredj Tekaia: Whole genome camparisons: gene duplication and consenration in systematically sequenced organisms. 41-42
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  Andrei Grigoriev, Alexander Levin, Hans Lehrach: Distributed Computing in Genomic Mapping: Building Contigs on the Web. 43-51
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  Alexander E. Kel, Andrey A. Ptitsyn, Vladimir N. Babenko, Sebastian Meier-Ewert, Hans Lehrach: A genetic algorithm for designing gene family specific oligonucleotide sets used for hybridization. The G Protein-coupled receptor Protein superfamily.. 53-55
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  Alvis Brazma, Jaak Vilo, Esko Ukkonen: Finding transcription factor binding site combinations in the yeast genome. 57-59

Evolution

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  Cathal Seoighe, Denis C. Shields, Kenneth H. Wolfe: Genome duplication and the evolution of gene Order and chromosome number in yeast. 61-63
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  Stefan Schönauer, Peter Clote: How optimal is the genetic code? 65-67

Sequence Data Analysis

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  Burkhard Morgenstern, Thomas Werner: Dialign 1.0: Multiple alignment by Segment rather than by Position comparison. 69-71
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  Brendan Mumey: A Model and Method for Detecting Errors in Data Sets. 73-77
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  S. Böhm: Zinc Finger and zinc binding motifs in fhe yeast genome. 79-81
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  Jürgen Kleffe, Klaus Hermann, W. Vahrson, Burghardt Wittig, Volker Brendel: GeneGenerator- a flexible algorfthm for gene prediction. 83-86
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  Dmitry A. Afonnikov, Y. V. Kondrakhin, Igor I. Titov, Nikolay A. Kolchanov: Detecting direct correlations between positions in multiple alignments of amino acid sequences. 87-98
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  L. Pickert, Ingmar Reuter, Frank Klawonn, Edgar Wingender: Transcription regulation regions revealed by Signal detection and fuzzy clusterfng. 99-101

Structures

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  Christian Lemmen, Claus Hiller, Thomas Lengauer: RigFit: a new approach to superimposing ligand molecules. 103-105
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  Karl Kaindl, Ettore C. Ohage, Boris Steipe: The predictive Power of short strucfural motifs for Protein stability engineering. 107-109
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  Marko Wöhler, Ralf Thiele, Ralf Zimmer: New scoring Schemes for Protein fold recognition based on Voronoi contacts. 111-120

Posters

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  Kaj Albermann, M. Bähr, Dmitrij Frishman, A. Gleißner, Jean Hani, Klaus Heumann, A. Maierl, Alfred Zollner, Hans-Werner Mewes: The MIPS Yeast Genome Database. 121-122
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  Rolf Backofen: Using constraint programming for lattice protein folding. 123
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  Uta Bohnebeck, Werner Sälter, Otthein Herzog, Manfred B. Wischnewsky, Dietmar Blohm: An Approach to mRNA Signalstructure Detection through Knowledge Discovery. 125-126
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  Alvis Brazma, Tomas P. Flores, Peter Maccallum, Alan J. Robinson: Data Mining and Visualisation in Molecular Biology Databases. 127
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  Christian Büschking, Chris Schleiermacher: GeneView: A GenBank-Entry Visualisation Tool. 129-130
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  Gareth Chelvanayagam, Lukas Knecht, Thomas Jenny, Steven A. Benner, Gaston H. Gonnet: Structure Prediction with Combinatorial Distance Constraints. 131
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  Peter De Rijk, Rupert De Wachter: From alignment to RNA strucfure drawing. 133-134
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  Bernd Drescher, J. Weber, Ruben Schattevoy, A. Knop, Hans-Peter Pohle, M. Schilling: Automatic annotation of genomic date in a high throughput sequencing environment: I. Comparison of analysis programs. 135
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  Ruben Schattevoy, A. Knop, Hans-Peter Pohle, M. Schilling, J. Weber, Bernd Drescher: Automatic annotation of genomic date in a high throughput sequencing environment: II. Setup of distributed processing in a UNIX Cluster. 136
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  Hans-Peter Pohle, Ruben Schattevoy, A. Knop, M. Schilling, J. Weber, Bernd Drescher: Automatic annotation of genomic date in a high throughput sequencing environment: III. Genetic Data Management Tool (GDMT). 137
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  A. Knop, Hans-Peter Pohle, Ruben Schattevoy, M. Schilling, J. Weber, Bernd Drescher: Automatic annotation of genomic date in a high throughput sequencing environment: IV. System requirements for data storage and processing. 138
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  J. Weber, A. Knop, Hans-Peter Pohle, Ruben Schattevoy, M. Schilling, Bernd Drescher: Automatic annotation of genomic date in a high throughput sequencing environment: V. Exon Predictions with EST's and CDS's on Genomic Sequences. 139
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  M. Schilling, A. Knop, Hans-Peter Pohle, Ruben Schattevoy, J. Weber, Bernd Drescher: Automatic annotation of genomic date in a high throughput sequencing environment: VI. A Status Database. 140
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  Antje Düsterhöft, B. Obermaier, T. Pohl, R. Wambutt, T. Altmann, Helmut Blöcker, H. Hoheisel, Hans-Werner Mewes, Annemarie Poustka: Custom Megabase Sequencing of a Small Eucaryotic Genome in Germany. 141
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  Dirk Evers, Robert Giegerich: RNA Movies: Visualizing RNA secondary structure spaces. 143
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  Karl-Heinz Glatting, Martin Ebeling, Agnes Hotz-Wagenblatt, Ge Zhang, Otto Ritter, Sándor Suhai: The German EMBNET node GENIUSnet. 145-146
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  Véronique Giudicelli, Denys Chaume, Gérard Mennessier, Hans-Helmar Althaus, Werner Müller, Julia G. Bodmer, Ansar Malik, Marie-Paule Lefranc: IMGT: Tools for the management, the annotation, the analysis and the display of immunogenetics data. 147-148
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  Jens Hanke, Peer Bork, Jens G. Reich: Associative Data Base of Biomolecuiar Sequences. 149
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  Meinhard Hasslacher, Christoph Kratky, Herfried Griengl, Helmut Schwab, Sepp D. Kohlwein: Hydroxynitrile lyase from Hevea brasiliensis. Molecular characterization and mechanism of enzyme catalysis. 151
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  Elena V. Ignatieva, Alexander E. Kel, Nikolay A. Kolchanov: Lipid Metabolism Transcription Regulatory Regions Database (LM-TRRD). 153-154
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  Alexander A. Kanapin, Vladimir A. Ivanov: Relative rates of evolutionary changes in ORF1 proteins of nonviral retroelements: groups of phylogenetical relationship. 155-156
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  Andreas Kaps, Hans-Werner Mewes: Migrating to an Object-Oriented Protein Sequence Database. 157-158
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  Markus Kieninger, Chandra M. Sarkar, J. Flavio R. Ortigao, Thomas Kämpke: DOPE A web-based program system for the design of oligonucleotide primers. 159-160
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  Ulf Leser, Robert Wagner, Hans Lehrach, Hugues Roest Crollius: IXDB, an integrated database for genomic data of the Human X Chromosome. 161-162
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  B. Nelissen, F. Van Leuven, Rupert De Wachter, A. Goffeau: Classification of all putative permeases and other membrane multispanners of the Major Facilitator Superfamily encoded by the complete genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 163
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  Arnaud Perrin, Bernard Dujon: Redundancy in the yeast genome: Paralogous gene sets and chromosome organization. 165-169
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  Mikhail P. Ponomarenko, Julia V. Ponomarenko, Alexander E. Kel, Nikolay A. Kolchanov, N. Karas, Edgar Wingender, Heinz Sklenar: Identification of the significant conformational features of functional sites in B-DNA. 171
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  Patricia Rodriguez-Tomé, Carsten Helgesen, Philip Lijnzaad: A CORBA server for the Radiation Hybrid Database. 173
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  W. Schmidt: Phylogeny reconstruction from hydrophobicity profiles of Proteins: An Information-theoretic approach. 175
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  Armin O. Schmitt, Sebastian Meier-Ewert, Jörg Lange, Hans Lehrach: Information theoretical design of sets of DNA oligomers for hybridization fingerprinting experiments. 177-178
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  Sebastian Schneckener, Dietmar Schomburg: Improvement of sequence-structure alignment quality by an empirical energy function. 179
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  Michael Schöniger: Adequacy of Evolutionary Models with Correlations and Rate Heterogeneity. 181
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  Johannes Schuchhardt, H. Rystedt, Gisbert Schneider, Uwe Hobohm, Paul Wrede: Automatic classification of Loop-Structures in Proteins by an Unsupervised Neural Network. 183-184