This event has ended. Visit the official site or create your own event on Sched.

Rocky 2021

Welcome to the Rocky 2021 Conference. Please click on the links below to access the Rocky website and the list of posters:

CONFERENCE RESOURCES
Rocky Website
Poster Presentation List without abstracts
Poster Presentation List with abstracts

9:00am MST

Keynote 1 - Humans “in-the-loop”: Practical Recommendations for Enhancing the Trustworthiness of AI Development for Healthcare - Diane M. Korngiebel, PhD Ballroom Salon 1Diane Korngiebel

9:45am MST

OP 01 - Adventures in Integrating Biobank Scale Data with Genomic, Phenotypic and Imaging Data from Other Sources Ballroom Salon 1Ben Busby

9:55am MST

OP 02 - ProTaxa: software to easily perform phylogenomic analyses for prokaryotic taxa Ballroom Salon 1Joseph Wirth

10:05am MST

OP 03 - Predicting functional consequences of mutations using molecular interaction network features Ballroom Salon 1

10:15am MST

OP 04 - Co-evolution based machine-learning for predicting functional interactions between human genes Ballroom Salon 1Yuval Tabach

10:45am MST

OP 05 - Scalable estimation of microbial co-occurrence networks with Variational Autoencoders Ballroom Salon 1James Morton

10:55am MST

OP 06 - Geographical Support Vector Machines (GSVM) for the Analysis of Spatially Data Ballroom Salon 1

11:05am MST

OP 07 - sciCAN: Single-cell chromatin accessibility and gene expression data integration via Cycle-consistent Adversarial Network Ballroom Salon 1Yang Xu

11:15am MST

OP 08 - TADMaster: A Comprehensive Web-based Tool for Analysis of Topologically Associated Domain Detection Methods Ballroom Salon 1Oluwatosin Oluwadare

11:25am MST

OP 09 - Error Modelled Gene Expression Analysis (EMOGEA) Ballroom Salon 1Tobias Karakach

4:00pm MST

Keynote 2 - Dramatically Elevated Proteomic Risk Profiles Predict COVID-19 Severity - Michael A. Hinterberg, PhD Ballroom Salon 1Michael A. Hinterberg

4:30pm MST

OP 10 - New machine learning approaches to estimate the functional consequence of mutations in diverse human populations Ballroom Salon 1Yuval Itan

4:40pm MST

OP 11 - Assessing Equivalent and Inverse Change in Genes between Diverse Experiments Ballroom Salon 1Lisa Neums

4:50pm MST

OP 12 - Recent Advances in Sequence Assembly Using Flow Decomposition Ballroom Salon 1Brendan Mumey

5:00pm MST

OP 13 - About the Research Data Alliance Ballroom Salon 1Stephanie Hagstrom

5:30pm MST

OP 14 - Crossing complexity of space-filling curves reveals new principles of genome folding Ballroom Salon 1

5:40pm MST

OP 15 - The Cultural Evolution of Vaccine Hesitancy: Modeling the Interaction between Beliefs and Vaccination Behaviors Ballroom Salon 1Kerri-Ann Anderson

5:50pm MST

OP 16 - Automated and systematic verification and validation increases quality and long-term reuse of models Ballroom Salon 1

6:00pm MST

OP 17 - SBMLWebApp: Web-based Simulation, Steady-State Analysis, and Parameter Estimation of Systems Biology Models Ballroom Salon 1Andreas Dräger

9:00am MST

Keynote 3 - Single-cell Biology in a Software 2.0 World - David Van Valen, PhD Ballroom Salon 1David Ashley Van Valen

9:45am MST

OP 18 - A comprehensive benchmarking of WGS-based structural variant callers Ballroom Salon 1Varuni Sarwal

9:55am MST

OP 19 - Exploring hypotheses of small cell lung cancer growth mechanisms using Bayesian mutlimodel inference Ballroom Salon 1Samantha Beik

10:05am MST

OP 20 - Identifying and Classifying Goals for Scientific Knowledge Ballroom Salon 1

10:15am MST

OP 21 - The Egyptian Center for Genome and Microbiome Research: A Funded North-South Collaboration for Capacity Building and Genomics Research Sustainability Ballroom Salon 1Ramy Aziz

10:45am MST

OP 22 - The Ramp Atlas: Facilitating tissue-specific ramp sequence analyses across humans and SARS-CoV-2 Ballroom Salon 1Justin Miller

10:55am MST

OP 23 - The systematic assessment for the completeness of metadata information accompanying omics studies Ballroom Salon 1Yu-Ning Huang

11:05am MST

OP 24 - A Tale of Two Systems: Influenza and COVID-19 Ballroom Salon 1

11:15am MST

OP 25 - Genomic epidemiology of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in Arizona USA Ballroom Salon 1Matthew Scotch

11:25am MST

OP 26 - Predicting protein level changes from transcript level data Ballroom Salon 1

4:00pm MST

Keynote 4 - Mapping and Navigating the Human Regulatory Genome - Wouter Meuleman, PhD Ballroom Salon 1Wouter Meuleman

4:30pm MST

OP 27 - Morphology and gene expression profiling provide complementary information for mapping cell state Ballroom Salon 1Gregory Way

4:40pm MST

OP 28 - Improving the interpretability of random forest models of genetic association in the presence of non-additive interactions Ballroom Salon 1Alena Orlenko

4:50pm MST

OP 29 - Germline modifiers of the tumor immune microenvironment reveal drivers of immunotherapy response Ballroom Salon 1

5:00pm MST

OP 30 - Genome Skimming by Shotgun Sequencing to Address Longstanding Questions of Lichen Species Diversity Ballroom Salon 1

5:30pm MST

OP 31 - Response Signatures of SARS-CoV2 Infection Identified Using Deep Learning Approaches on Single Cell RNA-Seq Data Ballroom Salon 1Mario Flores

5:40pm MST

OP 32 - Multispecies cities in the Anthropocene: bioremediation and biomining potential of the Gowanus Canal Microbiome, an urban Superfund site Ballroom Salon 1Chandrima Bhattacharya

5:50pm MST

OP 33 - Higher-order Markov models for metagenomic sequence classification Ballroom Salon 1

6:00pm MST

OP 34 - DEGAS: Mapping clinical metrics to spatial transcriptomics with deep learning Ballroom Salon 1Justin Louis Couetil

9:00am MST

Keynote 5 - NLP Sandbox: Overcoming Data Access Barriers to Reliably Assess the Performance of NLP Tools - Thomas Schaffter, PhD Ballroom Salon 1Thomas Schaffter

9:30am MST

OP 35 - Scientific Reproducibility and Research Automation with QIIME 2 Provenance Replay Ballroom Salon 1

9:40am MST

OP 36 - Robustness and reproducibility of computational genomics tools Ballroom Salon 1Serghei Mangul

9:50am MST

OP 37 - Define and visualize pathological architectures of human tissues from spatially resolved transcriptomics using deep learning Ballroom Salon 1

10:00am MST

OP 38 - Identifying Viruses from Host Genomes and Deep Learning for Prediction of Viral Integration Sites Ballroom Salon 1Zhongming Zhao

10:30am MST

OP 39 - Quantification and visualization of the tumor microenvironment heterogeneity from spatial transcriptomic experiments Ballroom Salon 1Oscar Ospina

10:40am MST

OP 40 - Inferring Pediatric Sickle Disease Genotypes from Molecular Mechanistic Knowledge Ballroom Salon 1Tiffany Callahan

10:50am MST

OP 41 - COPD subtypes identified from blood RNA-seq data using single sample gene network perturbations Ballroom Salon 1Takis Benos

11:30am MST

Keynote 6 - Who Has long-Covid? A Small and Big Data Approach - Melissa Haendel, PhD Ballroom Salon 1Melissa Haendel

12:00pm MST

Closing Session - Raffle and Poster Winners Announcement Ballroom Salon 1