Accepted Posters

• Identification of Non-invasive Cytokine Biomarkers for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Using Supervised Machine Learning: Daniela Perry, Jeremy Gunawardena, Nicolas Orsi
• HmmUFOtu: An HMM and Phylogenetic Placement based Ultra-fast Taxonomic Assignment and OTU Picking Tool for Microbiome Amplicon Sequencing Studies: Qi Zheng, Jacquelyn Meisel, Casey Bartow-McKenney, Elizabeth Grice
• TCGA Lung Cancer Analysis Pipeline: Talip Zengin, Tugba Onal-Suzek
• Classification of Carbonaceous Nanomaterials based on Patterns of Inflammatory Markers in BAL Fluid and Pathological Outcomes in Lungs: Ishika Desai, William Miller, Vamsi Kodali, Girija Syamlal, Jenny Roberts, Aaron Erdely, Naveena Yanamaala
• Relation Extraction for Protein-protein Interactions Affected by Mutations: Ziling Fan, Luca Soldaini, Arman Cohan, Nazli Goharian
• Analysis of Molecular Structure Data]{Systematic Study of Different Design Decisions in Markov Model-based Analysis of Molecular Structure Data: Sharmila Roychoudhury, Amarda Shehu
• Interpretable Machine Learning Approach Reveals Developmental Gene Expression Biomarkers for Cancer Patient Outcomes at Early Stages: Alisha Kamat, Ting Jin, So Yeon Min, Flaminia Talos, Jonas Almeida, Daifeng Wang
• Expert and Student User Evaluation of Semantic Protocol Search: Weizhong Zhu, Tarrah Kirkpatrick, Josephina Lin, Susan Hmwe
• Differences in Engagement Among BabyCenter.com Community Forum Contributors: A Pilot Study: Austin Gu, Casey Taylor
• A Manifold Learning Based Approach to Reveal the Functional Linkages across Multiple Gene Networks: Nam Nguyen, Ian Blaby, Daifeng Wang
• Understand Compound Mechanism of Action at a System Biology Scale through Chemical Biology Data Management and Analysis: Huijun Wang, An Chi, Xudong Qiao
• Profiling Diverse Chemical Space to Map the Druggable Proteome: Huijun Wang, Francisco Garcia, An Chi, Ivan Taracido, Anne Wasssermann, Andy Liaw
• Services4SNPs: A RESTful Platform for Association Rule Mining and Survival Analysis of Genotyping Data: Giuseppe Agapito, Mario Cannataro
• Interpreting Negative Data on Antipeptide Paratope Binding to Support Development of B-Cell Epitope Prediction for Vaccine Design and Other Translational Applications: Salvador Eugenio Caoili
• ProSetComp: A Platform for Protein Set Comparisons: Erdem Turk, Turkan Arit, Delikanli Susus, Ilayda Ucar, Baris Suzek
• Identifying Symptom Clusters in Women Experiencing Preterm Birth: Ting He, Casey Taylor
• Ranking Methods of Candidates for p53 Inhibitors Considering Cytotoxicity Using Machine Learning: Haruka Motohashi, Tatsuro Teraoka, Shin Aoki, Hayato Ohwada
• Practical Feature Selection for Lung Cancer Gene Detection: Min-Wei Hsieh, Hayato Ohwada, Sheng-I Chen
• Improving LIWC Using Soft Word Matching: Yuan Gong, Kevin Shin, Christian Poellabauer
• PTM Knowledge Networks and LINCS Multi-Omics Data for Kinase Inhibitor Drug-Analytics in Lung Cancer: Xu Zhang, Karen Ross, Tapan Maity, Jake Jaffe, Cathy Wu, Udayan Guha
• Knowledge Extraction of Long-Term Complications from Clinical Narratives of Blood Cancer Patients with HCT Treatments: Weizhong Zhu, Jennifer Teh, Haiqing Li, Saro Armenian
• Identifying Genes to Predict Cancer Radiotherapy-Related Fatigue with Machine-Learning Methods: Wei Du, Kristin Dickinson, Calvin Johnson, Leorey Saligan
• HarMinMax: Gabriel Wright, Anabel Rodriguez, Patricia Clark, Scott Emrich
• Use of the Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) Population to Test Serum Bilirubin Levels and Risk for Inflammatory Bowl Diseases and the Involvement of Uridine Glucuronosyltransferase Genes:
• Using a Network Approach to Identify Genes Important during Anther Development: Saleh Tamim, Blake Meyers
• Sentence Similarity Measures Revisited: Ranking Sentences in PubMed Documents: Qingyu Chen, Sun Kim, W. John Wilbur, Zhiyong Lu
• Balancing Confidentiality and Sharing of Genomic and Phenotypic Data in a Clinical Research System: Daniel Veltri, Zhiwen Li, Sandhya Xirasagar, Andrew Oler, Xi Cheng, Ke Huang, Jason Barnett, Lingwen Zhang, Octavio Juarez-Espinosa, Yongjie Fan, Morgan Similuk, Magdalena Walkiewicz, Celine Hong, Joyce Johnson, Joshua Milner
• Early Prediction of Risk Adjustment Factor (RAF) for Medicare Advantage (MA) and Evaluation of its Benefits: Hadi Zarkoob, Prasanna Desikan, Prakash Menon, Harshna Kapashi, Hossein Fakhrai-Rad, Barrie Bradley
• Comparative Analysis of Tools for Predicting the Functional Impact of mtDNA Variants: Madeline Griffin, Catherine Welsh
• Determination of Immunophenotypic Changes by CyTOF, Epigenetics and Component Resolved Diagnostics During Successful Desensitization in Multi-food Oral Immunotherapy: Sandra Andorf, Monali Manohar, R. Chinthrajah, Sheena Gupta, Holden Maecker, Stephen Galli, Kari Nadeau
• Faster Computation of Genome Mappability: Sahar Hooshmand, Paniz Abedin, Daniel Gibney, Srinivas Aluru, Sharma Thankachan
• A Novel Approach for Increasing Taxonomic Resolution in Protein-Based Alignments: Cooper Park, Keir Macartney, Junfu Shen, Kunpeng Xie, Xin Zhang, R. Daniel Bergeron, W. Kelley Thomas, Cheryl Andam, Anthony Westbrook
• Using Similarity Metrics on Real World Data to Recommend the Next Treatment: Kyle Haas, Malika Mahoui, Simone Gupta, Stuart Morton
• An Alignment-free Heuristic for Fast Sequence Comparisons with Applications to Phylogeny Reconstruction: Jodh Pannu, Sriram Chockalingam, Sharma Thankachan, Srinivas Aluru
• RESTful API for iPTMnet: An Integrated Resource for Protein Post-translational Modification Network Discovery: Sachin Gavali, Julie Cowart, Chuming Chen, Karen Ross, Cathy Wu
• Systematically Prioritizing Targets in Genome-Based Drug Repurposing: Anup Challa, Robert Lavieri, Judith Lewis, Nicole Zaleski, Jana Shirey-Rice, Paul Harris, Jill Pulley
• Genet-CNV: Boolean Implication Networks for Modelling Genome-Wide Co-occurrence of DNA Copy Number Variations: Salvi Singh, Nancy Guo
• Coevolutionary Patterns in HIV-1 Pre-integration Complex Offer Insights into Protein Structural Constraints:Madara Hetti Arachchilage, Helen Piontkivska
• Efficient Distance Calculations Between Genomes Using Mathematical Approximation:Yana Hrytsenko, , Noah Daniels, , Rachel Schwartz
• RNA-Seq Dose Response Experiments for Quantification of Off-Target Effects with RNAi Therapeutics:Joseph Barry, Svetlana Morskaya, Tuyen Nguyen, Sarah Solomon, Kevin Fitzgerald, Stuart Milstein, Greg Hinkle
• Machine Learning Classification of Antimicrobial Peptides Using Reduced Alphabets:Manal Othman, Sujay Ratna, Anant Tewari, Anthony Kang, Iosif Vaisman
• Diagnosing Schizophrenia: A Deep Learning Approach:Justin Barry, Srivathsan Srinivasagopalan, Sharma Thankachan, Varadraj Gurupur
• A Rapid Exact Solution for the Guided Genome Halving Problem:Anton Nekhai, Maria Atamanova, Pavel Avdeyev, Max Alekseyev
• State Diagrams for Automating Disease “Risk Pyramid” Data Collection and Tailored Clinical Decision Support:Duwayne Willett, Ambarish Pandey, NNeka Ifejika, Vaishnavi Kannan, Jarett Berry, Mujeeb Basit