The Program for the Fourth Conference of the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society will not be available until January, 2007.

The Program for the Third Conference of the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society, that took place in Baton Rouge March 2-4, 2006, is shown below:

March 2^nd Conference Program

8:00	Continental Breakfast
9:00	Opening remarks
9:15	Welcome address
9:30	1st Keynote: Dr. Richard Gibbs, Ph.D. Director, BCM-Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine
10:30	Coffee Break
10:45	SESSION 1 - Biomarkers and Structure Based Design Session Chair: Yuriy Gusev
10:45	Eric R. Siegel Searching Model Space for SELDI-TOF Cancer Classifiers
11:15	Diana Chan An Ensemble Method for Identifying Robust Features for Biomarker Identification
11:45	Michael Dyar Structure Based Design of a Melanoma Vaccine
12:15	Lunch/MCBIOS Business meeting
13:30	SESSION 2 - Genomics I Session Chair: Jonathan Wren
13:30	Surya Saha De novo repeat finding in large eukaryotic genomes
14:00	Candace Timpte Bringing Bioinformatics and Genome Sequencing to the Classroom
14:30	Jim Nolan Genome Evolution in Close Relatives of Bacteriophage T4
15:00	Coffee Break
15:15	SESSION 3 - Advances in Microarray Methods I Session Chair: Andrey Ptitsyn
15:15	Yuanyuan Ding Improving the performance of recursive feature elimination to select relevant genes in microarray data
15:45	Hong Fang Evaluation of Self-Self Hybridization as an Alternative to Dye Swap for Two Channel Microarrays
16:15	Jihad Skaf Understanding the Biology: Bioinformatics Resources to Maximize the Interpretation of Microarray Data
17:00	Poster session and Reception
19:00	Dinner

March 3^rd Conference Program

8:00	Continental Breakfast
8:45	Opening remarks
9:00	2nd Keynote: Dr. Winston Hide Ph.D. Director, South African National Bioinformatics Institute
10:00	Coffee Break
10:15	SESSION 4 - Biological Pathways Session Chair: Stephen Jennings
10:15	Gary C. Cheng A chain-reaction approach to model gene pathways
10:45	Alexander Kel Promoter evolution in signaling pathways
11:15	Daniel Berleant PathBinder: a Biological Literature Mining Tool for the MetNet Integrated Software System
11:45	Qian Xie Assessing Drug Toxicity from Rat Urine with NMR Metabolomics
12:15	Lunch
13:15	SESSION 5 - Genomics II Session Chair: Andrey Ptitsyn
13:15	Ajay Mane An Automated Method for Rapid Identification of Putative Gene Family Members in Plants
13:45	Kamran Iqbal A Stochastic Model of Multistage Mutations Based on Gene Interactions
14:15	Stephanie Hebert Microarray analysis of induced defenses against divergent insect feeding guilds in tomato
14:45	Edward Seidel, Ph.D. Director of the LSU Center for Computational Technologies TBA
15:15	Coffee Break
15:30	Presentation of Student Awards
15:45	SESSION 6 - Advances in Microarray Methods II Session Chair: Dawn Wilkins
15:45	Yuriy Gusev The New Kid on the Block: microRNA profiling in Cancer from a bioinformatics perspective
16:15	Mahyar Sabripour Multiresolution Analysis of Tiling Array Data
16:45	Dung-Tsa Chen An Integrated Bioinformatics Tool to Classify Gene Functions in Microarray Data
17:15	MCBIOS Main Conference Closing remarks

March 4^th Conference Program

8:00	Continental Breakfast
8:45	Opening Remarks for the Nanopore Cheminformatics Satellite Meeting
9:00	SESSION I - Nanopore Detector Background and Applications Session Chair: Stephen Winters-Hilt
9:00	Stephen Winters-Hilt Nanopore-based detection for kinetic analysis of individual biomolecular interaction histories in solution
9:30	Maria Tanase Nanopore Cheminformatics Analysis of the "sticky" DNA-intercalating behavior of HIV DNA termini
10:00	Matthew Landry Channel Current based Kinetic Feature Extraction
10:30	Coffee Break
10:45	SESSION II - Advances in Channel Current Cheminformatics Session Chair: Stephen Winters-Hilt
10:45	Stephen Winters-Hilt Novel HMM and SVM generalizations for analysis of single-channel current blockade data
11:15	Raja Iqbal A Novel Boosting strategy for DNA Molecule Classification
11:45	Anil Yelundur Multiclass SVMs: External & Internal