9:00 - 10:00 Registration and Breakfast 10:00 - 10:05 Opening Remarks F. Roberts, Director of DIMACS 10:05 - 10:15 Workshop presentation I. Gelfand, Rutgers University 10:15 - 10:20 Memory to O. Ptitsyn A. Finkelstein, Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia 10:20 - 11:05 Protein Families and Gene Duplications in 19 Genomes C. Chothia, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge University 11:05 - 11:20 Discussion 11:20 - 12:00 Multipoint genetic linkage analysis on large human pedigrees A.Gutin, Myriad Genetics Inc. 12:00 - 12:15 Discussion 12:15 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 1:45 On the Problem of Adequate Language in Biology I.Gelfand 1:45 - 2:00 Discussion 2:00 - 2:45 Predicting Function from Protein Structure Comparison R. Russel, Bioinformatics, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, United Kingdom 2:45 - 3:00 Discussion 3:00 - 3:15 Break 3:15 - 3:45 What is common to highly non-homologous proteins with Immunoglobulin-like fold? Defining characteristics of the Mouse heavy chains A. Kister and I. Gelfand, Rutgers University 3:45 - 4:00 Discussion 4:00 - 4:45 Folding Nuclei in 3D Protein Stracutres A. Finkelstein, Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia 4:45 - 5:00 Discussion 5:00 - 5:30 Panel Discussion