Third IITB-PSPL WORKSHOP ON DATA MANAGEMENT
Theme: Data Management (Storage and Analysis) in Bioinformatics
"Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on." -- Donald Knuth

Date: Saturday October 6, 2001
Time: 9.30 AM to 12.45 PM, 2.00 PM to 6.00 PM, 
** Note change in timings **
Venue: IIT Lecture Theatre

Web Page: http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/dbms/bioinfo.html

Current List of Registrants

IIT Bombay and Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd, Pune are pleased to announce the third in the series of annual workshops on data management. The previous two workshops on this series were on query optimization and on XML. This years theme is data management in bioinformatics, and will include talks on storage and analysis of various types of bioinformatics data.

Faculty from several departments in IIT Bombay, and experts from the industry and other colleges/research labs will be presenting talks at this workshop.

As with previous workshops, this years workshop will be open to all IITians (faculty, staff and students), and by invitation to people from outside IIT. To attend you must register online (and may have to collect tickets, in case of high demand). Details will be posted shortly.

Tentative Program

Welcome and Introduction 
9.30-9.35  Welcome  S. Sudarshan (CSE, IIT Bombay)
9.35-9.45  Introduction  S. Seshadri (Strand Genomics)
Session 1: 9.45 AM - 10.45 AM  (Chair: S. Sudarshan)
9.45-10.45  Introduction to BioInformatics  Pramod Wangikar (Chem. Engg., IIT Bombay)
Coffee break 
Session 2: 11.15 AM - 12.45 PM (Chair: T. M. Vijayaraman)
o Overview of BioTech Industry  S. Seshadri (Strand Genomics, Bangalore)
o Gene Expression Analysis Using Microarrays  Mushtaq Ahmed (PSPL)
o Expanse of Life Milind Watve (Garware College, Pune)
Lunch (on your own, except for invitees from outside IIT) 
Session 3: 2.00 PM - 3.30 PM (Chair: Jayant Haritsa)
o Predicting Protein Structure and Beyond P. V. Balaji (Biotech. Centre, IIT Bombay)
o Data Analysis for Protein Complexes - Recognition Maps Rajani Joshi (Biomed Engg. and Mathematics, IIT Bombay)
o Prediction of Molecular Bioactivity for Drug Design experiences from the KDD Cup 2001 competetion Sunita Sarawagi (joint work with B. Anuradha, Anand Janakiraman, and J.Haritsa)
Coffee break 
Session 4: 3.45 PM - 5.15 PM (Chair:Anand Deshpande)
o Data Modeling/Representation  S. Sudarshan (CSE, IIT Bombay)
o BODHI, A Biodiversity Database Pla(n)tform  Jayant Haritsa (IISc)
o Indexing Genome Sequences  Srikanta B.J. (IISc) 
o Computing Power for Bioinformatics  R. Balasubramanian (Compaq, Bangalore)
Session 5: 5.15 PM - 6.00 PM
o R&D Directions Panel Discussion Venue to be changed Pramod Wangikar (IIT Bombay) (Moderator) with participation from all speakers and questions from audience