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POSTER ABSTRACTS

Submission
Number
Poster Title
Poster Authors
1
Genome-Scale Metabolic Network Model of Arabidopsis Cristiana G.O. Dal’Molin,
Lake Quek, and Lars K. Nielsen
4
Understanding molecular weight control in bacterial fermentation: a systems biotechnology approach. Esteban Marcellin, Wendy Y. Chen, Colin Archer and Lars K. Nielsen

5
Bioinformatic analysis indicates a relationship between CpG islands & nuclear protein function, as well as a Stop Codon Usage Bias Paul Berkman and Guang Bin Liu
6
Using Multivariate Curve Resolution to Improve Proteomics Biomarker Discovery Li Chen
8
Detecting Z-DNA Forming Regions in the Human Genome Jie Xiao, Peter Dröge and Jinming Li
9
Vulval Development Modeling Using Hybrid Functional Petri Net with extension and its Simulation-based Formal Model Validation Chen Li Masao Nagasaki,
Kazuko Ueno and Satoru Miyano
10
Discovery of Functional miRNA-mRNA Regulatory Modules with Computational Methods Bing Liu, Jiuyong Li
and Anna Tsykin
13
Prediction of the O-glycosylation and Environments around the crowded and isolated O-glycosylation sites a Yukiko Nakajima, Hirotaka Sakamoto and Kazutoshi Sakakibar
14
Comparison of Brachyspira central metabolism pathways using genomic sequence data Bellgard Phatthanaphong Wanchanthuek,
David J. Hampson and Matthew
15
Strain improvement for production of homo-organic acid based on multi-objective simulation Sang Yup Lee, Jong Myoung Park
and Tae Yong Kim
16
Hydrophobic-Hydrophilic Patterns and their Effects on the Protein Folding Prediction Process Trent Higgs, Bela Stantic
and Md Tamjidul Hoque
17
Reconstruction of a Genome-scale Metabolic Network for Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 and an Investigation of Its Metabolic Features Sang Yup Lee, Joungmin Lee
and Hongseok Yun
18
Pathway Analysis for Succinic acid Production of Mannheimia succiniciproducens and Escherichia coli Sang Yup Lee, Tae Yong Kim
and Hyung Rok Choi
19
A subnet algorithm for genome scale metabolic networks Wynand S. Verwoerd
20
Integrating Gene Expression Studies Via Statistical Synthesis Anna Elizabeth Campain
and Jean Yee Hwa Yang
21
A comparative analysis of noncoding and protein-coding RNAs in the mammalian transcriptome Tim R. Mercer, Marcel E. Dinger
and John S. Mattick
22
A mathematical model to account for quantitative iterative effect of TNF-a positive feedback mechanism on inflammatory cascade in TLR-4 mediated TNF-a signalling pathway Bryan Essien, Michael Kotiw,
Harry Butler, Dmitry Strunin
and Tony Roberts
23
Visualising and Testing for Difference in High Throughput Bio-Imaging Nicholas A Hamilton, Jack Wang, Markus Kerr and Rohan D. Teasdale
24
STREAM : A Practical Workbench for the Quantitative Modeling of Transcription Denis C. Bauer and Timothy L. Bailey
25
Identifying microRNA Networks and Motifs Ilana Lichtenstein, Albert Zomaya
and Jennifer Gamble
26
Eukaryotic Signature Proteins: Guides to modern eukaryotic Parasites Jian Han, Lesley Collins, Patrick
Biggs and David Penny
27
Bioinformatics Services at AgResearch NZ Nauman Jawad Maqbool, Anette
Becher and Alan McCulloch
29
Signal Peptide Sequence Analysis and Cleavage Site Prediction Takehito Yamada and Yoichi Hayashi
30
Gene Specific Co-regulation Discovery from Gene Microarray Data Ji Zhang, Qing Liu, Kai Xu and Paulo
de Souza
31
An Algorithm Determining Delay Times in a Mark Graph for Smooth Signal Flowing Kanji Hioka, Yoshimasa Miwa,
Chen Li, Qi-Wei Ge, Hiroshi
Matsuno and Satoru Miyano
32
Annotating a partial transcriptome of the marine snail Dicathais orbita’s hypobranchial gland using suppressive subtractive hybridization and BLAST2GO Patrick W. Laffy, Kirsten Benkendorff
and Catherine A. Abbott
33
A Distance Measure for Phylogenetic Analysis of Genomes Minh Duc Cao, Trevor I. Dix
and Lloyd Allison
34
In silico Functional Proteomic Re-annotation of Escherichia coli K12 Aravindhan Ganesan, Ramesh
Kumar Gopa and Sathish Kumar Radhakrishnan
35
High Performance Multiple Sequence Alignment Algorithms for Comparison of Microbial Genomes Manal Helal, Hossam El-Gindy,
Bruno Gaeta and Vitali Sinchenko
36
Comparison of feature extraction methods with microarray gene-expression data Takanobu Miyamoto and
Yoshihiko Hamamoto
37
A Bi-ordering Approach to Linking Gene Expressions with
Clinical Annotations in Cancer
F. Shi, G. MacIntyre, C. Leckie,
I. Haviv, A. Boussioustas
and A. Kowalczyk
38
Practical Evolutionary Genomics from Short-Read Sequence Experiments Patrick J. Biggs, Lesley J. Collins,
Sylvia Xiowei Chen and Nigel French
39
Fluorescence Intensity Isotherms and Distributions on Oligonucleotide Microarrays C. J. Burden
40
Effect of the EGF binding cooperativity on EGFR activation on the cell surface Takashi Naka
41
Structural model for group-2 phytocystatin revealed the protein folds resembling to human latexin Yi-Sheng Cheng, Hsin-Yi Wu
and Kai-Wun Yeh
42
Effects of Different Normalisation and Analysis Procedures on Illumina Gene Expression Microarray Data Dan Johnstone, Carlos Riveros,
Pablo Moscato and Liz Milward
43
Establishing A Research-Teaching Nexus In Genome Informatics Dan Johnstone, Carlos Riveros
and Liz Milward
44
Microarray studies detecting changes in microRNA expression in cancer Anna Tsykin, Philip Gregory, Michael Michael, Bas Wijnhoven, Enrico
Garattini and Gregory Goodall
45
Link Prediction in Metabolic Networks using Topology-based Mixture Models Akira Ninagawa and Koji Eguchi
46
Integrated prediction of transcription factor binding sites and interactions in bacteria: a comparative genomics approach Xin-Yi Chua and James M. Hogan
47
Phosphorylation Site Prediction Tool For Channel Proteins Using Statistical Machine Learning Techniques Devasia Arun George, Kwoh Chee
Keong and Nikhil Prasanna Jayan
48
Strategies for computational transcription factor binding
site discovery in humans
Geo Macintyre, James Bailey,
Adam Kowalczyk and Izhak Haviv
49
Distribution of DNA Palindromes in short Genomes Yong Kheng Goh
50
LocPPI : A Protein-Protein Interaction System for Analysis of Cellular Proteome Pan-Gyu Kim, Hwa Jung Seo, Suk
Hoon Jung and Kiejung Park
51
Automatic layout tool for large-scale metabolic pathway models based on KEGG Atlas Nobuhiro Kido, Nobuaki Kono,
Kazuharu Arakawa and Masaru Tomita
52
Workflow and Its Navigation System Using Web API for Biology (WABI) Yeondae Kwon, Yasumasa Shigemoto, Yoshikazu Kuwana and Hideaki Sugawara
53
Extracting biological knowledge from SVM models capable of distinguishing alternative and constitutive splicing T. Murlidharan Nair
and Michael Gribskov
54
Identification of microRNAs with regulatory potential using a matched microRNA-mRNA time course data Vivek Jayaswal, Yee Hwa Yang,
Mark Lutherborrow and David Ma
55
The evolutionary processes underlying the emergence of the
a-actinin gene family
Monkol Lek, Daniel G MacArthur,
Nan Yang and Kathryn N North
56
Microarray Quality Control: Identifying and Dealing with less than Perfect Data Nathan S. Watson-Haigh, Haja N. Kadarmideen, Greg Nattrass and
Melanie McDowall

57
Using simple rules on presence and positioning of motifs for promoter structure modelling and tissue-specific expression prediction Alexis Vandenbon and Kenta Nakai
58
Specificity-based Ranking Algorithm for Finding Associated Terms from MEDLINE Abstracts Yeondae Kwon and Hideaki Sugawara
59
Probability-based Glycosphingolipid Prediction from Mass Spectrometry Data Kazuhito Yokoi, Saki Itonori, Mutsumi Sugita and Masahiro Ito
60
Weighted Co-Expression Gene Modules Reveals Candidate Biomarkers for Sheep Intestinal Parasite Resistance Haja N. Kadarmideen, Nick Andronicos, Nathan S. Watson-Haigh, Peter Hunt
and Ross Windon
61
The Functional Flow of Drug Target Protein in Metabolic Pathway Hwie-Sung, Jung Bora Hyun
Woo-Hyuk and Jang Dong-Soo Han
62
Predicting tissue-specific transcription factor binding sites with chromatin modification information Tom Whitington, Andrew Perkins
and Tim Bailey
63
Developing a Bioinformatics Grida-ware Client Steven Stones-Havas
and Allen Rodrigo
64
DNA copy-number alterations underlie gene expression differences between microsatellite stable and unstable colorectal cancers Robert N Jorissen, Lara Lipton,
Peter Gibbs, Timothy J Yeatman,
Claus Lindbjerg Andersen
and Oliver M Sieber
65
Verification of Bmal and Clock Gene Functions in Circadian Rhythms by Simulation Akio Matsui, Natsumi Mito, Hiroshi Matsuno, Shin-ichi T. Inouye
and Satoru Miyano
66
G-language Genome Analysis Environment Version 2:
Integrated workbench for computational genome sequence analysis
Kazuharu Arakawa and
Masaru Tomita
67
Web-based Zoomable Pathway Browser using KEGG Atlas and Google Maps API Nobuaki Kono, Kazuharu Arakawa, Nobuhiro Kido, Ryu Ogawa, Kazuki Oshita, Keita Ikegami, Satoshi Tamaki and Masaru Tomita
68
DRIPS Database of Repeats in Protein Sequences Rima Kumari and Nita Parekh
69
Promoter sequence analysis of differentially expressed genes in sheep following a nematode parasite challenge Shivashankar Hiriyur Nagaraj, Aaron Ingham andAntonio Reverter
71
Molecular Evolution of PMS2 Gene Family in Higher Primates and Its Possible Biological Implications George V. Shpakovski, Elena K. Shematorova and Dmitry
G. Shpakovski
72
Expression Profile of Human PMS2-like Genes: Bioinformatic and Experimental Studies Elena K. Shematorova, Dmitry G. Shpakovski and George V. Shpakovski
73
Query Protection in DNA Homology Search Shogo Shimizu and Yeondae Kwon
74
Analysis of the Proteins with Positive Charge Autocorrelation in Amino Acid Sequences from Eukaryotes Runcong Ke, Masashi Sonoyama
and Shigeki Mitaku
75
The New South Wales Systems Biology Initiative Simone Li and Marc R. Wilkins

76
GEOMI: a tool for integrated systems biology research Simone Li, Apurv Goel, Adam Lee, Chi Nam Ignatius Pang and Marc R. Wilkins
77
A Weighted Average Difference Gene-ranking for Gene Set Enrichment Analysis of Microarray Data Jaeyoung Kim, Hyungmin Lee and Miyoung Shin
78
Functional organization of transcript sequences as gene expression data Hidemasa Bono, Shoko Kawamoto, Kousaku Okubo and Toshihisa Takagi
79
Gentrepid: a webserver for candidate disease gene prediction Erdahl T. Teber, Jason Y. Liu,
Richard A. George, Sara Ballouz,
Chi N. I. Pang, Boer Xu, Naresh P. Bains, Duncan B. Sparrow, Robin Otway, Guanglan Guo, Diane Fatkin
and Merridee A. Wouters
80
Improving alignment of hypervariable regions for varDB C. Nelson Hayes, Diego Diez, Nicolas Joannin, Minoru Kanehisa, Mats Wahlgren, Craig E. Wheelock and Susumu Goto
81
CHESS (CgHEexpreSS) : A software for association study of copy number changes and correlation analysis between copy number changes and gene expression Lee Mi-Kyung and Kim Yang-Seok
82
Prediction of Protein Nuclear Localization Based on Smoothed Evolutionary Information and Probabilistic La-tent Semantic Indexing Emily Chia-Yu, Su Jia-Ming Chang,
Ting-Yi Sung and Wen-Lian Hsu
83
A framework for mining GenBank: Implementation for the varDB project Diego Diez, Nelson Hayes, Nicolas Joannin, Minoru Kanehisa, Mats Wahlgren, Craig E. Wheelock and Susumu Goto
84
Life Science Database Portal Site: lifesciencedb.jp Shin Kawano, Hidemasa Bono, Shoko Kawamoto, Kousaku Okubo, and Toshihisa Takagi
85
Biopieces: a bioinformatics toolset and framework Martin Asser Hansen, Chol Hee Jung, Selene Fernandez Valverde
and Harald Oey
86
Modeling the bacterial transcription regulatory jigsaw Scott David, Mann Yi-Ping
and Phoebe Chen
87
Inferring deep duplication nodes in vertebrate protein families Karin S. Kassahn and Mark A. Ragan
88
Evaluation and expression of “drug-likeness” of small molecules using Semantic Web technologies Joo-Young Choi, Melissa J. Davis
and Mark A. Ragan
89
Morphogenetic Evolvable Hardware (MG-EHW) Processes and their suitability to Self-repairing Circuits Tim Gurnett, Ross Hayward
and Joaquin Sitte
90
Similar sequence or structure: A kernel function that brings together the best of two worlds Isye Arieshanti, Mikael Bodén, Stefan Maetschke and Fabian A. Buske
91
Development and Evaluation of a Prototype System for the Inference of Genetic Networks Using Evolutionary Computation Kouji Tanaka and Hayato Yamana
92
Sequencing the Acropora millepora transcriptome Sylvain Foret, David Hayward,
Eldon Ball and David Miller
93
A Web Service Framework for Advanced Bioinformatics Dominique Gorse, David Wood, Mhairi Marshall and Jeremy Barker
94
Investigating genome aberration and microRNA correlation in ovarian cancer Raj K. Gaire, Ian G. Campbell,
Jennifer Bearfoot, Manasa
Ramakrishna, Kylie L. Gorringe, James Bailey, Peter J. Stuckey and Izhak Haviv
95
Using Comparative Genomics to Associate Transcription Factors with their Roles Fabian A. Buske, Mikael Boden
and Timothy L. Bailey
96
Establishment of Clinical OMICS Database (iCOD) by Integrating Clinical and Molecular Biological Information, for Systems Pathological Research Hiroshi Mizushima and Hiroshi Tanaka1
97
Alternative Measures of Transcription Factor Activity from Expression Data Antonio Reverter, Aaron Ingham, Nick Hudson, Shivashankar Hiriyur Nagaraj
and Brian P Dalrymple

98
Integration of Protein Interaction and Metabolic Data for Subcellular Localization Prediction Gaurav Kumar, Adrian P. Cootes, Helena Nevalainen and Shoba Ranganathan
99
The characterisation of upstream peptides (uPEPs) Adam Skarshewski, Joseph A. Rothnagel and Ross Smith
100
CoreAligner: Multiple genome alignment for identifying the genomic core among moderately related genomes Ikuo Uchiyama
101
Parallel Markov Clustering for Large-scale Protein-Protein Interaction Networks using MPI Alhadi Bustamam, Muhammad Shoaib Sehgal, Simon Wong, Mark A Ragan
and Kevin Burrage
102
Identification of transcription factors that regulate intronic microRNAs Jiyuan An, Yongjun Fan, Anthony G Beckhouse, Alistair M Chalk
and Christine A Wells
103
Incorporating tiling array expression data into a gene Predictor Benjamin Lansdell, Terry Speed
and Anthony Papenfuss
105
Australian Mirror of the UCSC Genome Browser Michael Pheasant, Matthew Bryant, Cas Simons, Wes Barris, Amanda Miotto, Stuart Stephen, Othmar Korn, Dominique Gorse, Jeremy Barker, Vladimir Brusic, Brian P. Dalrymple, Bernard M. Degnan, Lyn Griffiths, James Hogan, Mark A. Ragan, Paul Roe, Peter Timms, Christine A. Wells, and John S. Mattick
106
A Method for Protein Functional Flow Configuration and Validation Woo-Hyuk, Jang Suk-Hoon Jung and Dong-Soo Han
107
Quantitative Analysis of Central Metabolic Pathway for
Modeling and Simulation
Hirotada Mori, Hitomi Dose, Yuto Ikegami, Tomoaki Yamamotoya, Barry L. Wanner and Hirosi Matsuno
108
A Literature Management System with A Recommendation Function at Database Center for Life Science Yasunori Yamamoto and Toshihisa Takagi
109
Efficient analysis for large scale genomic data on Support Vector Machine using Data Resource Management Seol-Hee Bae, Hyo-Jeong Ban, Keun-Joon Park and Kyung-Soo Oh
110
Manipulating Biochemical Reactions on Octave/Matlab Yuki Hyodo and Jun Ohta
111
BIOLISM – A System for Searching and Mining Bio-Literatures Gabriel Pui, Cheong Fung
and Xiaofang Zhou
112
Sequence Analysis of Mitochondrial -barrel Outer Membrane Proteins Kenichiro Imai, M. Michael Gromiha
and Paul Horton
113
TGG based Automatic Transformation between SBML and other Biological Modeling Languages Shijia Zhu, Haijun Tao
and Yadong Wang
114
TGG based Automatic Transformation between SBML and other Biological Modeling Languages Shijia Zhu, Haijun Tao
and Yadong Wang
115
Development of the www.EcoliHub.org Information resource for experimentation and modeling Barry L. Wanner, Sara Ess, Kirill A. Datsenko, Rikiya Takeuchi
and Hirotada Mori
116
The total quasi-steady-state approximation for the Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase cascade Shev MacNamara, Alberto M. Bersani, Kevin Burrage and, Roger B. Sidje
117
Biology-driven clinical management of paediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemia through integrative data mining and visualization of genome-wide gene expression and SNP profiles Daniel Catchpoole, Dachuan Guo,
Ahmed Al Oqaily, Paul Kennedy
and Simeon Simoff