PROCEEDINGS
CO-CHAIRS, Yves Moreau, KU Leuven, Belgium; and
Niko Beerenwinkel, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland
Applied Bioinformatics
Thomas Lengauer, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
Christophe Dessimoz, University College London, United Kingdom
Bioimaging and Data Visualization
Robert Murphy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States
Databases, Ontologies and Text Mining
Hagit Shatkay, University of Delaware, Newark, United States
Helen Parkinson, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, United Kingdom
Disease Models and Epidemiology
Simon Kasif, Boston University, United States
Alice McHardy, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
Evolution and Comparative Genomics
Bernard Moret, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore
Gene Regulation and Transcriptions
Uwe Ohler, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Zohar Yakhini, Agilent, Haifa, Israel
Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics
Olga Vitek, Northeastern University, Boston, United States
Knut Reinert, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Metabolic Networks
Hidde de Jong, INRIA, Grenoble, France
Bonnie Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
Population Genomics
Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States
Jennifer Listgarten, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United States
Protein Interact and Molecular Networks
Nataša Pržulj, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Igor Jurisica, University of Toronto, Canada
Protein Structure and Function
Anna Tramontano, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Torsten Schwede, University of Basel, Switzerland
RNA Bioinformatics
Hanah Margalit, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Jerome Waldispuhl, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Sequence Analysis
Michael Brudno, University of Toronto, Canada
Siu-Ming Yiu, The University of Hong Kong, China
PROCEEDINGS—PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Applied Bioinformatics
Rolf Backofen
Mukul S. Bansal
Davide Bau
Robert Beiko
Asa Ben-Hur
Jeremy Buhler
Kevin Cohen
Noah Daniels
Susmita Datta
Christophe Dessimoz
Rod Do
Nadia El-Mabrouk
Oliver Eulenstein
Matteo Fumagalli
Nicholas Furnham
Laurent Gatto
Sampsa Hautaniemi
Andreas Hildebrandt
Heng Huang
Curtis Huttenhower
Tamer Kahveci
Olga Kalinina
Carl Kingsford
Martin Krallinger
Thomas Lengauer
Ulf Leser
Po-Ru Loh
Florian Markowetz
Chad Myers
Bogdan Pasaniuc
Nico Pfeifer
Teresa Przytycka
Gunnar Rätsch
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann
Ivo Sbalzarini
Sven-Eric Schelhorn
Marcel Schulz
Nives Skunca
Johannes Soeding
Jens Stoye
Asif Tamuri
Glenn Tesler
Fabio Vandin
Karin Verspoor
Jean-Philippe Vert
Chris Watkins
Amy Williams
Yu Xia
Ralf Zimmer
Bioimaging & Data Visualization
Scott Acton
Anne Carpenter
Luis Pedro Coelho
Tom Freeman
Stephen McKenna
Erik Meijering
Torsten Möller
Robert Murphy
Olaf Ronneberger
Ivo Sbalzarini
Carolina Wählby
Thomas Walter
Jieping Ye
Databases & Ontologies & Text Mining
Sophia Ananiadou
Cecilia Arighi
James Balhoff
Judy Blake
Olivier Bodenreider
Nigel Collier
Helen Cook
Simone Daminelli
Michel Dumontier
Juliane Fluck
Javier Garcia-Garcia
Rezarta Islamaj Dogan
Lars Juhl Jensen
Antonio Jimeno
Siddhartha Jonnalagadda
Halil Kilicoglu
Jung-Jae Kim
Maria Kissa
Martin Krallinger
Florian Leitner
Hee-Jin Lee
Hongfang Liu
James Malone
Terry Meehan
Anika Oellrich
Jong C. Park
Helen Parkinson
Michael Schroeder
Nigam Shah
Hagit Shatkay
Neil Smalheiser
Padmini Srinivasan
Morris Swertz
Manabu Torii
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka
Catalina O. Tudor
Francesco Vallania
Karin Verspoor
David Westergaard
Lana Yeganova
Disease Models & Epidemiology
Martin Aryee
Eric Banks
Karsten Borgwardt
Hector Corrada Bravo
Tianxi Cai
Aurel Cami
Mark Crovella
Charles Delisi
Jonathan Dreyfuss
Brian Haas
Benjamin Hescott
Eilinor Karlsson
Kirill Korolev
Joseph Lehar
Stan Letovsky
Manway Liu
Bud Mishra
Stefano Monti
T.M. Murali
Niranjan Nagarajan
Peter Park
Nico Pfeifer
Teresa Przytycka
Tim Reddy
Jaques Reifman
Bernard Renard
Evan Snitkin
Chang-Juin Wu
Or Zuk
Evolution & Comparative Genomics
Daniel Brown
Cedric Chauve
Miklos Csuros
Dan Gusfield
Daniel Huson
Tao Jiang
Yu Lin
Erick Matsen
Siavash Mirarab
Bernard Moret
Luay Nakhleh
Ben Raphael
Marc Robinson-Rechavi
Sebastian Roch
David Sankoff
Jens Stoye
Krister Swenson
Jijun Tang
Lusheng Wang
Louxin Zhang
Xiuwei Zhang
Gene Regulation & Transcriptomics
Edoardo M. Airoldi
Yoseph Barash
Tim Beissbarth
Panayiotis Takis Benos
Doron Betel
Richard Bonneau
Guillaume Bourque
Alan Boyle
Michael R. Brent
Harmen Bussemaker
Gal Chechik
Olof Emanuelsson
Jason Ernst
Terry Furey
David Gifford
Ivo Grosse
Sampsa Hautaniemi
Haiyan Huang
Tommy Kaplan
Sunduz Keles
Ilona Kifer
Philip Kim
Anshul Kundaje
Dena Leshkowitz
Shaun Mahony
John Marioni
Florian Markowetz
Satoru Miyano
Alexandre Morozov
Leelavati Narlikar
William Stafford Noble
Uwe Ohler
Tim Reddy
Markus Ringnér
Ron Shamir
Nathan Sheffield
Donna Slonim
Israel Steinfeld
Gary Stormo
Kai Tan
Amos Tanay
Achim Tresch
Erik van Nimwegen
Martin Vingron
Yu Xia
Zohar Yakhini
Yinyin Yuan
Deyou Zheng
Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics
Naomi Altman
Jan Baumbach
Ananth Grama
Henning Hermjakob
Jack Kellie
Oliver Kohlbacher
Lennart Martens
Alexey Nesvizhskii
Steffen Neumann
Knut Reinert
Bernhard Renard
Vera Vannoort
Olga Vitek
Sue Weintraub
Bing Zhang
Metabolic Networks
Bonnie Berger
Alexander Bockmayr
Hidde de Jong
Paul Jensen
Christoph Kaleta
Andreas Kremling
Isabel Rocha
Marie-France Sagot
Tomer Shlomi
Population Genomics
David Balding
Mukul S. Bansal
Alexis Battle
Nick Furlotte
Bjarni Halldórsson
Dan He
Gabriel Hoffman
Andrew Johnson
Nebojsa Jojic
Vladimir Jojic
Hyun Min Kang
Eimear Kenny
Bonnie Kirkpatrick
Jing Li
Christoph Lippert
Jennifer Listgarten
Iain Mathieson
Sara Mostafavi
Pier Palamara
Laxmi Parida
Leopold Parts
Bogdan Pasaniuc
Itsik Pe’er
Snehit Prabhu
Barbara Rakitsch
Saharon Rosset
Russell Schwartz
Protein Interactions & Molecular Networks
Patrick Aloy
Joel Bader
Ziv Bar-Joseph
Anastasia Baryshnikova
Jan Baumbach
Asa Ben-Hur
Bonnie Berger
Andreas Beyer
Juan Fernandez-Recio
Dario Ghersi
Debra Goldberg
Casey Greene
Henning Hermjakob
Trey Ideker
Igor Jurisica
Gunnar Klau
Rune Linding
Kathleen Marchal
Tijana Milenkovic
Chad Myers
Christine Nardini
Florencio Pazos
Matteo Pellegrini
Natasa Przulj
Ben Raphael
Denise Scholtens
Benno Schwikowski
Roded Sharan
Mona Singh
Lincold Stein
Uli Stelzl
Ulrich Stelzl
Michael Stumpf
Denis Thieffry
Jean-Philippe Vert
Michael Washburn
Ioannis Xenarios
Omer Yaveroglu
Hongyu Zhao
Protein Structure & Function
Jadwiga Bienkowska
Alexandre Bonvin
Lorenza Bordoli
Oliver Brock
Brian Chen
Thomas Dandekar
Charlotte Deane
Bruce Donald
Arne Elofsson
Andras Fiser
Dmitrij Frishman
Manuela Helmer-Citterich
Liisa Holm
Laurence Hurst
Rachel Kolodny
Arun Konagurthu
Christopher Langmead
Keren Lasker
Yaohang Li
Olivier Lichtarge
Ryan Lilien
Liam Mcguffin
Julie Mitchell
Vincent Moulton
Vikas Nanda
Domenico Raimondo
Ram Samudrala
Avner Schlessinger
Torsten Schwede
Yang Shen
Silvio Tosatto
Ilya Vakser
Allegra Via
Bjorn Wallner
Yusu Wang
Haim J. Wolfson
Yu Xia
Jinbo Xu
Dong Xu
Martin Zacharias
Jianyang Zeng
Yaoqi Zhou
RNA Bioinformatics
Rolf Backofen
Danny Barash
Peter Clote
Robin Dowell
Irit Gat-Viks
Daniel Gautheret
Ivo Hofacker
Fabrice Jossinet
Hanah Margalit
David Mathews
Irmtraud Meyer
Yann Ponty
Elena Rivas
Igor Ulitsky
Jerome Waldispuhl
Zasha Weinberg
Eric Westhof
Michal Ziv-Ukelson
Sequence Analysis
Tatsuya Akutsu
Can Alkan
Alberto Apostolico
Vikas Bansal
C.Titus Brown
Michael Brudno
Jeremy Buhler
Francis Chin
Hector Corrada Bravo
Iman Hajirasouliha
Fereydoun Hormozdiari
John Kececioglu
Sun Kim
Stefano Lonardi
Ion Mandoiu
Paul Medvedev
Ivan Ovcharenko
Knut Reinert
S.Cenk Sahinalp
Michael Schatz
Alexander Schliep
Tetsuo Shibuya
Jared Simpson
Jens Stoye
Haixu Tang
Glenn Tesler
Jerome Waldispuhl
Siu Ming Yiu
Alex Zelikovsky
Daniel Zerbino
ISMB/ECCB 2015 ORGANIZATION
HONORARY CONFERENCE CHAIR
Des Higgins, Honorary Conference Chair, University College Dublin, Ireland
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Alex Bateman, Conference Co-Chair, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge, United Kingdom
Janet Kelso, Confererence Co-Chair, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
STEERING COMMITTEE
Des Higgins, Honorary Conference Chair, University College Dublin, Ireland
Alex Bateman, Conference Co-Chair, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge, United Kingdom
Janet Kelso, Confererence Co-Chair, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Diane E. Kovats, ISCB Executive Director, Fairfax, United States
Steven Leard, ISCB Conferences Director, Edmonton, Canada
Christine Orengo, ISCB Conferences Committee Chair, University College London, United Kingdom
Burkhard Rost, Highlights Chair, Technical University Munich, Germany
Reinhard Schneider, ISCB Treasurer, University of Luxembourg
Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Niko Beerenwinkel, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland
Michelle Brazas, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), Toronto, Canada
Yana Bromberg, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States
Alan Christoffels, SANBI, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
Iddo Friedberg, Miami University, Oxford, United States
Dietlind Gerloff, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (FfAME), Gainesville, United States
Francisco Melo Ledermann, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Fran Lewitter, Whitehead Institute for Biomedial Research, Cambridge, United States
Michael Linial, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Rodrigo Lopez, European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Yves Moreau, KU Leuven, Belgium
Guilherme Oliveira, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Christine Orengo, University College London, United Kingdom
Burkhard Rost, Technical University Munich, Germany
Reinhard Schneider, University of Luxembourg
CONFERENCE THEME CHAIRS
Disease: Yana Bromberg, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States
Data: Janet Kelso, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Systems: Nicolas Le Novère, Babraham Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Genes: Martin Vingron, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
Proteins: Ioannis Xenarios, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
APPLIED KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE SESSIONS (AKES)
Co-chairs: Fran Lewitter, Whitehead Institute for Biomedial Research, United States and Michelle Brazas, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), Toronto, Canada
ART & SCIENCE
Chair: Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
Ricardo de Matos Simoes, Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland
Alaa Abi-Haidar, Sorbonne Universities, France
Venkata Satagopam, Luxembourg Centre For Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg
HIGHLIGHTS
Co-chairs: Burkhard Rost, Technical University Munich, Germany; and Reinhard Schneider, University of Luxembourg
Bonnie Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
Eric Bongcam-Rudloff, Uppsala University, Sweden
Yana Bromberg, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States
Terry Gaasterland, University of California, San Diego, United States
Yanay Ofran, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Paul Horton, Computational Biology Research Center, AIST, Tokyo, Japan
Maricel Kann, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States
Toni Kazic, University of Missouri, Columbia, United States
Janet Kelso, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Stefan Kramer, Technical University Munich, Germany
Michal Linial, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Predrag Radivojac, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States
Mona Singh, Princeton University, United States
Donna Slonim, Tufts University, Medford, United States
Ioannis Xenarios, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
LATE BREAKING RESEARCH
Chair: Francisco Melo Ledermann, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Eduardo Agosin, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Daniel Almonacid, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile
Emidio Carpriotti, University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States
Lenore Cowen, Tufts University, Medford, United States
Damien Devos, Universidad Pablo de Olavide-CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
Susana Eyheramendi, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Fernando Faunes, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Evandro Ferrada, Santa Fe Institute, United States
Diego Ferreiro, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Carlos Lagos, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Rodrigo Lopez, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Marcelo Lopez-Lastra, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Marc A. Marti-Renom (ICREA), Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain
Rafael Medina, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Morton Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark
Gunnar Rätsch, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, United States
Gonzalo Riadi, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Manfred Sippl, University of Salzberg, Germany
Andreas Schüller, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Alex Slater, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Ludovic Vallier, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Dirk Walther, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany
POSTERS
Poster Chair: Iddo Friedberg, Miami University, Oxford, United States; and Co-chair: Yana Bromberg, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States
Frederic Bastian, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Titus Brown, UC Davis Genome Center, United States
Hannah Carter, University of California, San Diego, United States
Clair Colas, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, United States
Manuel Corpas, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Jeroen de Ridder, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Mikhail G. Dozmorov, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, United States
Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, United States
Tatyana Goldberg, Technical University Munich, Germany
Yuxiang Jiang, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States
John Karro, Miami University, Oxford, United States
Hande Küçük, University of Miami, United States
Fran Lewitter, Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research, Cambridge, United States
Yannick Mahlich, Technical University Munich, Germany
Jason McDermott, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
James Morton, University of Colorado, United States
David Ream, Miami University, Oxford, United States
Jonas Reeb, Technical University Munich, Germany
Venkata Satagopam, University of Luxembourg
Christine Sinoquet, University of Nantes, France
Eric Talevich, University of California, San Francisco, United States
Jie Tan, Dartmouth College, Hanover, United States
Peter Ung, Mount Sinia Hospital, New York, United States
Yan Zhang, Yale University, New Haven, United States
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS
Chair: Alan Christoffels, SANBI, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Jill Mesirov, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, United States
Christine Orengo, University College London, United Kingdom
Guilherme Oliveira, FIOCRUZ-Minas, Brazil
SPECIAL SESSIONS
Chair: Michael Linial, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
STUDENT COUNCIL SYMPOSIUM
Chair: Katie Wilkins, Cornell University, United States
Co-chair: Farzana Rahman, Chair, University of South Wales, United Kingdom
Program Chair: Gonzalo Parra, Buenos Aires University, Argentina
Travel Fellowship Chair: Margherita Francescatto, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Tübingen, Germany
Finance Chair: Jakob Berg Jespersen, Technical University of Denmark
Communications Chair: Bart Cuypers, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Web Committee Chair: Mehedi Hassan, University of South Wales, United Kingdom
Committee Members:
Dan DeBlasio, University of Arizona, United States
Micaela Polay Espinoza, Sorbonne Universities, France
Carla Padilla Franzotti, National University of Tucuman, Argentina
Alexander Junge, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Nina Verstraete, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
TECHNOLOGY TRACK
Chair: Rodrigo Lopez, Chair, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Christophe Blanchet, CNRS, Lyon-Gerland, France
Dominic Clark, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Andrew Cowley, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Desmond Higgins, Conway Institute, Dublin, Ireland
William Pearson, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS
Chair: Guilherme Oliveira, Chair, FIOCRUZ- Minas, Brazil
Manuel Corpas, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, United Kingdom
Thomas Abeel, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Lonnie Welch, University of Ohio, Athens, United States
Venkata Satagopam, University of Luxembourg
Magali Michaut, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ronnie Alves, The Computational Biology Institute(IBC), LIRMM, France
Gabriel Fernandes
Joel Arrais, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Alan Christoffels, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Lucia Peixoto, Washington State University, Spokane, United States
Ramy Karam Aziz, Cairo University, Egypt
Bent Petersen, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Lyngby, Denmark
Rohit Ghai, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, San Juan de Alicante, Spain
WORKSHOPS
Christine Orengo, University College London, United Kingdom