Program of the meeting:  Data Analysis Working Group
MNHN -Paris - 6-8 July 2006

Thursday 6 July 2006                 Opening session – Chair : Brian Golding

14:00

David SCHINDEL (ppt, 4.5MB) - Secretary of the CBOL

Welcoming address

14 :15

Michel VEUILLE - Chair of the DAWG

Opening of the meeting

14:30

Voelker LOESCHKE (ppt, 18KB)   - ESF

The CON-GEN program

15:00

José M. BAUTISTA (ppt, 9MB) - FishTrace consortium / Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Fish barcoding from the FishTrace database: the control gene, the data validation analysis and the backup reference biological data

15:45

Coffee break

 

16:15

Mehrdad HAJIBABAEI (ppt, 18MB) - University of Guelph, Canada

Google Gene: searching for DNA barcode sequences using Google search engine

17:00

Group visit of the vertebrate collections

Friday 7 July 2006                                       Chair : Donal Hickey

10:00

Michael J. HICKERSON (ppt, 6MB) University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, USA

Quantifying uncertainty in species discovery with approximate Bayesian computation (ABC): single samples and recent radiations

10 :45

 Kasper MUNCH (ppt, 244KB)University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Bayesian DNA barcoding

11 :30

Coffee break

12 :00

Eric BAZIIN (ppt, 228KB)   - University of  Montpellier II, France

MtDNA variation and effective population size

12 : 45

Lunch

 

13 :45

Bogdan PASANIUC (ppt, 185KB) University of Connecticut, USA

DNA Barcode Data Analysis: Boosting Assignment Accuracy by Combining Distance- and Character-Based Classifiers

14 :30

Frederic AUSTERLITZ (ppt, 224KB)Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, Orsay, France

Comparing phylogenetic and statistical classification methods for DNA barcoding

15 :15

Coffee break

15 :30

Indra Neil SARKAR (ppt, 11MB) – American Museum of Natural History, USA

Automated Barcoding Using the Characteristic Attribute Organization System

16 :15

Tim BARRACLOUGH (ppt, 4MB) – Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus

Biological inferences from barcoding data (optional)

17 :00

 Group visit of  the arthropod and insect collections of the MNHN with the curators

Saturday 8 July 2006                                Chair : David Schindel

10:00

Zaid ABDO (ppt, 2MB) - Deparment of Biology, McMaster University, Canada

A step towards barcoding life I: A new method to assign genes to preexisting species groups

10:45

Jessica RACH (ppt, 2.5MB) - TiHo Hannover, ITZ Ecology & Evolution, Germany

Character-based DNA barcoding for identifying conservation units in Odonata

1130

Coffee break

11:45

Damon LITTLE (ppt, 6MB) - The New York Botanical Garden, USA

A comparison of algorithms for identification of specimens using DNA barcodes: examples from gymnosperms

12:30

 Lunch

13:30

Birgit GEMEINHOLZER (ppt, 12MB) - Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Germany

Possibilities and limitations of sequence similarity and homology search tools implemented in molecular nucleotide databases for organism identification

14:15

Donal HICKEY (ppt, 761KB) - Concordia University, Canada

DNA Barcoding of Fungi: a Feasibility Analysis

15:00

Coffee break and discussion

 

15:15

Javier CABRERA (ppt, 93KB) – Department of statistics, Rutgers University, USA. Also gave talk by Ching-Ray YU (ppt, 64KB)

An MLE-based clustering method on DNA barcode

16:00

Organization and agenda of the DAWG – closure at 17:00

Each talk should be 30 min long, plus 15 minutes of discussion