WCB’11 @ Workshop on Constraint Based Methods for Bioinformatics Workshop Organizers Alessandro Dal Palù Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy Agostino Dovier Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy Andrea Formisano Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy Programme Committee Rolf Backofen (Germany) Pedro Barahona (Portugal) Alexander Bockmayr (Germany) Mats Carlsson (Sweden) Alessandro Dal Palù (Italy) Simon de Givry (France) Agostino Dovier (Italy) Esra Erdem (Turkey) François Fages (France) Andrea Formisano (Italy) Inês Lynce (Portugal) Neil Moore (Scotland) Enrico Pontelli (USA) Sven Thiele (Germany) Sebastian Will (Germany) September 12, 2011 University of Perugia, Italy 09:00 09:55 10:25 10:55 11:25 11:55 12:35 14:00 14:30 15:00 15:40 16:10 Invited Talk Alessandro Brozzi Inferring Gene Pathways Controlling Clonal Outgrowth by High-throughput Insertional Mutagenesis Screens Aljoscha Palinkas and Alexander Bockmayr. Petri Nets for Integrated Models of Metabolic and Gene Regulatory Networks Coffee Break Jimmy Vandel and Simon De Givry. A New Local Move Operator for Reconstructing Gene Regulatory networks Steven Gay, Francois Fages, Thierry Martinez, and Sylvain Soliman. A Constraint Program for Subgraph Epimorphisms with Application to Identifying Model Reductions in Systems Biology Thomas Eiter, Thomas Krennwallner, and Christoph Redl. Declarative Merging of and Reasoning about Decision Diagrams Lunch Break Christian Theil Have. Constraints and Global Optimization for Gene Prediction Overlap Resolution Marco Correia, Fabio Madeira, Pedro Barahona, and Ludwig Krippahl. Improving Multiple Sequence Alignments with Constraint Programming and Local Search Michael Best, Kabi Bhattarai, Federico Campeotto, Alessandro Dal Palu', Hung Dang, Agostino Dovier, Ferdinando Fioretto, Federico Fogolari, Trung Le, and Enrico Pontelli. Introducing FIASCO: Fragment-based Interactive Assembly for protein Structure prediction with COnstraints Coffee Break Panel & Discussion