Program

10:20-11:50 a.m. Thursday February 9, 2006          Waldorf-Astoria A Room		Bioinformatics II Chair: George E. Fox — University of Houston Co-chair: Cecilia Clementi — Rice University
	Rational Protein Annotation and Design
		O. Lichtarge — Baylor College of Medicine
	Unraveling the History of the Ribosome
		G.E. Fox — University of Houston
	A Computational Framework for Structural Classification of Proteins Using Class-association Rules
		S. Dua and P.C. Kidambi — Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
	Geometric Sieving: Automated Distributed Optimization of 3D-Motifs for Protein Function Prediction
		B.Y. Chen1, V.Y. Fofanov2, D.H. Bryant1, B.D. Dodson1, D.M. Kristensen3, A.M. Lisewski3, M. Kimmel1, O. Lichtarge3 and L.E. Kavraki1 — 1Rice University, 2University. of Houston and 3Baylor College of Medicine