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1997 Spring Western Sectional Meeting
Corvallis, OR, April 19-20, 1997
Meeting #921

Associate secretaries:
William A Harris, Jr, AMS wharris@math.usc.edu

Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Molecular Biology

  • Saturday April 19, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Molecular Biology, I
    Room 104, Social Science Building
    Organizers:
    Pavel Pevzner, University of Southern California ppevzner@hto.usc.edu
    Michael S. Waterman, University of Southern California msw@hto.usc.edu

    • 9:00 a.m.
      Reading DNA Sequences
      Michael S. Waterman*, University of Southern California
      (921-92-74)
    • 9:40 a.m.
      Compound Poisson and Poisson process approximations for occurrences of multiple words, and application to certain stem-loop motifs
      Gesine D. Reinert*, UCLA
      Sophie Schbath,
      (921-60-83)
    • 10:20 a.m.
      DNA Computing and the Combinatorics of Polynomial Systems
      J. Maurice Rojas*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
      (921-68-165)

  • Saturday April 19, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Molecular Biology, II
    Room 104, Social Science Building
    Organizers:
    Pavel Pevzner, University of Southern California ppevzner@hto.usc.edu
    Michael S. Waterman, University of Southern California msw@hto.usc.edu

    • 3:00 p.m.
      Local Rules for Protein Folding on a Triangular Lattice and Generalized Hydrophobicity in the HP Model
      Richa Agarwala, National Institutes of Health
      Serafim Batzoglou, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
      Vlado Dan{\v c}{\'\i}k*, University of Southern California
      Scott E. Decatur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
      Martin Farach, Rutgers University
      Sridhar Hannenhalli, University of Southern California
      S. Muthukrishnan, Bell Laboratories
      Steven Skiena, SUNY Stony Brook
      (921-68-65)
    • 3:40 p.m.
      Evolution-based Sequence Matching
      Paul Cull*, Oregon State University
      James L. Holloway,
      Jeffrey D. Cavener,
      (921-99-107)
    • 4:20 p.m.
      A new method for a biological change-point problem: Dynamic programming detection of chimeric 16S rRNA artifacts
      George A Komatsoulis*, University of Southern California
      Michael S Waterman, University of Southern California
      (921-92-135)
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