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Monday 25th May 2015

Erik Sonnhammer “Summary of past QfO achievements and open issues”

Lightning Talks

Paul Thomas (University of Southern California, USA) “Toward a common resource for protein-coding gene families”

Martin Steinegger (Max Planck Institute, Spain) “The MMseqs suite for fast and sensitive batch searching and clustering of huge protein sequence sets”

Damian Szklarczyk (SIB / University of Zurich, Switzerland) “Interolog predictions in STRING using eggNOG”

Hirokazu Chiba (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan) “Applying RDF/SPARQL to ortholog databases”

Jeremy Levy (UCL, United Kingdom) “Comparison of CEGMA, single-copy OrthoMCL, and OMA for the construction of supermatrices in species phylogenetic analyses”

Claire McWhite (University of Texas at Austin, USA) “Ortholog profiling”

Steven Müller (University College London GEE, United Kingdom) “FamilyAnalyser - Getting the best out of your OrthoXML”

Ivana Piližota (University College London, United Kingdom) “Speeding-­up homology inference”

Clement Train (ETH ZURICH, Dessimoz group, Switzerland) “Efficiently Inferring Hierarchical Orthologous Groups in a Large Comparative Genomics Setup”

Henning Redestig (Bayer Cropscience, Belgium) “Using the OMA orthology database to navigate crop proteomes”

Erik Sonnhammer (Stockholm University, Sweden) “New InParanoid developments”

Nives Skunca (ETH, Switzerland) “Comparison of different strategies for predicting function in the OMA database”

Natasha Glover (UCL and BayerCropScience, Belgium) “Homeologs: What are they? How to infer them? What are they useful for?”

Open Plenary Lecture

Eugene V Koonin (NIH, USA) “Orthology: the shifting cornerstone of genomics”

Poster session sponsored by Illumina

Tuesday 26th May

Session "Orthology methods and resource advances I"

Salvador Capella-Gutierrez (CRG, Spain) “PhylomeDB: where every protein has its tree.”

El-Mabrouk Nadia (University of Montreal, Canada) “Orthology and paralogy relations versus Gene trees: Agreement, Correction and Optimality.”

Mateus Patricio (EBI, United Kingdom) “TreeFam: HMM classification of hundreds of genomes across Ensembl and Ensembl genomes”

Evgenia Kriventseva (UniGe, SIB, Switzerland) “OrthoDB in 2015: scaling up the data and the user experience.”

Jaime Huerta-Cepas (Embl, Germany) “EggNOG 2015”

Mateusz Kaduk (Stockholm University, Sweden) “Improving Hieranoid: hierarchical orthology inference”