W03 - First Workshop on Computational Methods for Structural RNAs - CMRS'14

Addressing the challenges of the big data era

Date/time: 7 September 2014@9:00 (Registration starts at 8:00)

Location: Salon Bartholdi at the Palais de la Musique et des Congrès in Strasbourg, France (Getting there)

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Proceedings: http://cmsr14.cs.mcgill.ca

Website: http://cmsr2014.wordpress.com

Context. Ribonucleic acids (RNAs) play key roles in various aspects of the gene transcription and regulation processes, and are the focus of an ever-increasing interest in all areas of molecular biology. Deciphering the function of a non-protein coding RNA requires an intimate knowledge of its structure, motivating the development of structure-centric analyses.
This workshop aims to gather researchers and students, developing or using computational methods for predicting RNA structures or analyzing their contribution to biological processes. It will provide a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art methods and tools using discrete representations of folding landscapes in the context of big data. It will contribute to establish best-practices towards a better support for large-scale data within structure-centric algorithms.

Speakers (Full program+Abstracts):

• Keynotes
  
  • Jan Gorodkin, Center for Non-Coding RNA in Technology and Health, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Mihaela Zavolan, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Swizterland
• Selected papers
  • Bourgeade Laetitia, Julien Allali (Labri, Univ. Bordeaux I, France) and Cédric Chauve (SFU, Canada)
  • Azadeh Saffarian, Mathieu Giraud and Helene Touzet (LIFL, Univ. Lille I/Inria Lille, France)
  • Liang Ding, Xingran Xue, Sal Lamarca, Mohammad Mohebbi, Abdul Samad, Russell L. Malmberg and Liming Cai (University of Georgia, USA)
  • Cédric Saule and Robert Giegerich (Univ. Bielefeld, Germany)
• Highlight talks
  • Michal Ziv-Ukelson (Ben-Gourion University of the Negev, Israel)
  • Fabrizio Costa (University of Freiburg, Germany)
  • Svetlana Shabalina (NIH Bethesda, USA)

Organizers.

• Fabrice Jossinet (Univ. Strasbourg, France)
• Yann Ponty (CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique, France)
• Jerôme Waldispühl (Univ. Mc Gill, Canada)

Sponsors. GDR BIM, Labex NetRNA, Inria