A tool for non-invasive prenatal diagnosis, FetalQuant [ 48], was presented in a highlights talk by Hao Sun (The Chinese University of Hong Kong).
In a highlights talk, Henrik Nielsen (Technical University of Denmark) described SignalP 4.0 [ 37], a new version of that popular software for predicting signal peptides.
This conversion allows the position of methylated cytosines to be inferred by traditional sequence alignment procedures as described in a highlights talk by Martin Frith [ 18] (AIST).
In a highlights talk, Michal Linial (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) discussed a novel algorithm, miRror2.0, which enables the discovery of combinatorial regulation of transcription by several miRNAs [ 33].
An interesting method for performing phylogenetic analysis on NGS data without the need to assemble reads was presented in a highlights talk by Urmila Kulkarni-Kale [ 19] of the University of Pune.
We close this section by mentioning the highlights talk given by Mark Ragan (The University of Queensland), who reported an analysis of human transcriptomic data to elucidate the effect that alternative splicing has on the protein-protein interaction network, via inclusion or omission of certain interaction domains [ 36].
The scientific program included six scientific sessions, four tutorials, four keynote presentations, nine highlight talks, and a poster session.
The conference was held on December 4-6, 2014 at San Antonio, Texas, USA, and included six scientific sessions, four tutorials, four keynote presentations, nine highlight talks, and a poster session that covered cutting-edge research in bioinformatics, systems biology, and computational medicine.
Highlighted talking points include OAuth, streaming, geolocation, business strategies, mobile integration, and the product roadmap.
All papers that had been published in peer-review journals (no book chapters) between January 1 , 2013 and the submission deadline of June 2, 2014, were eligible to be presented as a Highlight Talk.
