Proceedings of the 15th Annual UT-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit 2016: Cadiz, KY, USA. 8-10 April 2016

I1 Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual UT- KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit 2016 Eric C. Rouchka, Julia H. Chariker, Benjamin J. Harrison, Juw Won Park P1 CC-PROMISE: Projection onto the Most Interesting Statistical Evidence (PROMISE) with Canonical Correlation to integrate gene expression and methylation data with multiple pharmacologic and clinical endpoints Xueyuan Cao, Stanley Pounds, Susana Raimondi, James Downing, Raul Ribeiro, Jeffery Rubnitz, Jatinder Lamba P2 Integration of microRNA-mRNA interaction networks with gene expression data to increase experimental power Bernie J Daigle, Jr. P3 Designing and writing software for in silico subtractive hybridization of large eukaryotic genomes Deborah Burgess, Stephanie Gehrlich, John C Carmen P4 Tracking the molecular evolution of Pax gene Nicholas Johnson; Chandrakanth Emani P5 Identifying genetic differences in thermally dimorphic and state specific fungi using in silico genomic comparison Stephanie Gehrlich, Deborah Burgess, John C Carmen P6 Identification of conserved genomic regions and variation therein amongst Cetartiodactyla species using next generation sequencing Kalpani De Silva, Michael P Heaton, Theodore S Kalbfleisch P7 Mining physiological data to identify patients with similar medical events and phenotypes Teeradache Viangteeravat, Rahul Mudunuri, Oluwaseun Ajayi, Fatih Şen, Eunice Y Huang P8 Smart brief for home health monitoring Mohammad Mohebbi, Luaire Florian, Douglas J Jackson, John F Naber P9 Side-effect term matching for computational adverse drug reaction predictions AKM Sabbir, Sally R Ellingson P10 Enrichment vs robustness: A comparison of transcriptomic data clustering metrics Yuping Lu, Charles A Phillips, Michael A Langston P11 Deep neural networks for transcriptome-based cancer classification Rahul K Sevakula, Raghuveer Thirukovalluru, Nishchal K. Verma, Yan Cui P12 Motif discovery using K-means clustering Mohammed Sayed, Juw Won Park P13 Large scale discovery of active enhancers from nascent RNA sequencing Jing Wang, Qi Liu, Yu Shyr P14 Computationally characterizing genomic pipelines and benchmarking results using GATK best practices on the high performance computing cluster at the University of Kentucky Xiaofei Zhang, Sally R Ellingson P15 Development of approaches enabling the identification of abnormal gene expression from RNA-Seq in personalized oncology Naresh Prodduturi, Gavin R Oliver, Diane Grill, Jie Na, Jeanette Eckel-Passow, Eric W Klee P16 Processing RNA-Seq data of plants infected with coffee ringspot virus Michael M Goodin, Mark Farman, Harrison Inocencio, Chanyong Jang, Jerzy W Jaromczyk, Neil Moore, Kelly Sovacool P17 Comparative transcriptomics of three Acinetobacter baumanii clinical isolates with different antibiotic resistance patterns Leon Dent, Mike Izban, Sammed Mandape, Shruti Sakhare, Siddharth Pratap, Dana Marshall P18 Metagenomic assessment of possible microbial contamination in the equine reference genome assembly M Scotty DePriest, James N MacLeod, Theodore S Kalbfleisch P19 Molecular evolution of cancer driver genes Chandrakanth Emani, Hanady Adam, Ethan Blandford, Joel Campbell, Joshua Castlen, Brittany Dixon, Ginger Gilbert, Aaron Hall, Philip Kreisle, Jessica Lasher, Bethany Oakes, Allison Speer, Maximilian Valentine P20 Biorepository Laboratory Information Management System Naga Satya V Rao Nagisetty, Rony Jose, Teeradache Viangteeravat, Robert Rooney, David Hains