October 4

Afternoon Night

Opening

Lecture 1

Protein similarity searches using compositionally adjusted scoring systems
Stephen F. Altschul* [NCBI]

Lecture 2

Ontologies for biologists - Michael Ashburner* [ University of Cambridge ]

Poster Section A

Posters on Computational Biology

Party 1

Bossa Nova (pool) and D.J. (pub)

October 5

Morning Afternoon Night

Mini-symposia 1

Systems modeling - chair: R.P. Mondaini [Eberhard O. Voit*, J.C. Mombach, Rita M. Zorzenon dos Santos]

Lecture 3

Mammalian phylogenomics - Pavel Pevzner* [UCSD]

Technical Section A

Papers on Computational Biology

Mini-symposia 2

Pattern Recognition - chair: Heitor S. Lopes [Ulisses Braga-Neto, Michael Gribskov*, Jonas S. Almeida*]

Poster Section B

Posters on Molecular Biology

Party 2

Samba (pool) and D.J. (pub)

October 6

Morning Afternoon Night

Mini-symposia 3

Proteomics - chair: Marcelo Valle de Sousa [Wagner Fontes, Gilberto B. Domont, Peter Roepstorff*]

Lecture 4

Using Bioinformatics and Genomics to find new restriction-modification systems
Richard J. Roberts* [NEB, Nobel laureate].

Technical Section B

Papers on Molecular Biology

Mini-symposia 4

Genes and Disease - chair: Anamaria A. Camargo [Ana Lucia T.O. Nascimento, Luis E.A. Camargo, M. Rita Passos-Bueno, Sandro J. de Souza]

Poster Section C

Posters on Bioinformatics

Party 3

Axe (pool) and D.J. (pub)

October 7

Morning Afternoon Night

Mini-symposia 5

Structural Biology - chair: Igor Polikarpov [Ronaldo A.P. Nagem, R. Ranganathan*, Munir S. Skaf]

Lecture 5

Reliable automated protein function prediction - Steven E. Brenner* [ Berkeley ]

Technical Section C

Papers on Bioinformatics

Mini-symposia 6

Databases and Tools - chair: D. Natale* [João C. Setubal*, Evelyn Camon*, Cláudia A.M. Russo]

Concluding remarks

AB³C reunion

Party 4

Live band