Computational Biology

11^th International School for Computer Science Researchers
Lipari Island, June 20, 1999 - July 03, 1999

Under the auspices of
A.I.L.A - Associazione Italiana Logica ed Applicazioni
E.A.A.C.S.S. - European American Advanced Computer Science Schools consortium

The 11^th School for Computer Science Researchers addresses Ph.D. students and young researchers who want to get exposed to the forefront of research activity in the field of Computational Biology.

Courses

	Algorithms for Genomic Sequences Prof.Pavel Pevzner, Southern California University Content:Similarity based algorithms for gene hunting. Genomic comparison and sorting by reversals.
	Algorithms for Protein Structure Prediction Prof.Sorin Istrail, Sandia National Labs, USA Content:Contact maps and energy potential inference. Structure Alignment. Inverse folding. Statical mechanincs of lattice models.
	Dynamic Programming in Computational Biology Prof.Raffaele Giancarlo, Palermo University Content:Dynamic Programming in Computational Biology
	Dynamic Programming in Computational Biology Prof.Zvi Galil, Columbia University Content:Dynamic Programming techniques as they apply to problems in Computational Biology, e.g., sequence alignment, prediction of RNA Secondary Structure, comparison of philogenetic trees, etc.
	Genomic Distance Prof.David Sankoff, Montreal University Content:iological motivations and mathematical models for comparing genomic sequences. Methods to identify Conserved Segments.
	Genomics via Optical Mapping Prof.Bud Mishra, New York University Content:Biochemical basis for Optical Mapping and Error Models. Computational Problems: Map Construction, Genomic DNA Based Reference Maps, Map-assisted Sequence Assembly, Sequence Verification, Optical Sequencing. Comparison with traditional approaches.
	Molecular Biology and its Mathematics Prof.Mike Waterman, Southern California University Content:Basic Background material in Biology. The mathematical and statical tools that are used in Computational Biology, e.g., probabilistic models for physical maps, statical significance of sequence alignments etc.
	Molecular Philogeny: Problems and Prospectives Prof.Cecilia Saccone, Bari University Content:Problems form Molecular Philogery will be presented. In particular, the presentation will focus on the mathematical models that are perceived to be best suited for the area as well as a comparison with non-molecular approaches.
	Motifs in Sequences Prof.Marie France Sagot, Pasteur Institute, Paris Content:Algorithms to identify motifs in Biological Sequences.
	Organization of Large Biological Databases Prof.Fabrizio Luccio, Pisa University Content:Dynamic Programming in Computational Biology
	Phylogeny and Algorithms Prof.Martin Vingron, German National Cancer Research Center Content:Algorithms for inferring the evolutionary tree of a set of species, given their DNA or RNA Sequences. Relation of those algorithms to Multiple Sequence Alignment.
	Protein Structure Prof.Shoshana Wodak, EMBL-EBI and Libre de Bruxelles University Content:Principles of protein structures; fold and motif classification; structure comparisons.
	Protein-ligand docking with discrete models and methods Prof.Thomas Lengauer, GMD and Bonn University Content:Significance of docking problems, proglem variants, models and algorithms for docking.
	String Algorithmics Prof.Alberto Apostolico, Padova University and Purdue University Content:Algorithmic techniques for string processing, i.e., string matching, suffix trees etc..
	Three-Dimensional Pattern Matching Problems in Protein Structure Analysis Prof.Arthur Lesk, Cambridge Medical School University Content:Algorithms to identify and match common substructures of Proteins via Database Search.