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Opening Remarks
Dr. S-J. Sean Tsai (Director General, Department of Life Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology)

Advance in the Biomedical Research　
Moderator: Dr. Joseph Tseng (Institute of Bioinformatics and Biosignal Transduction, NCKU)

Plenary Lecture I:
Toward MicroRNA-mediated Gene Regulatory Network in Human and Mouse
Dr. Hsien-Da Huang (Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, NCTU)

Pharmacogenomics and pathomechanism of drug hypersensitivity
Dr. Shuen-Iu Hung (Department and Institute of Pharmacology, YM)

Exome sequencing identifies rare and disease-associated variants
Dr. Peng-Chieh Chen (Institute of Clinical Medicine, NCKU)

Identification of latent biomarkers in hepatocellular carcinoma by ultra-deep whole-transcriptome sequencing.
Dr. Kuan-Ting Lin (The Ph.D. Program for Cancer Biology and Drug Discovery, TMU)

Error messages? - Profiles and functional implications of the RNA editome
Dr. Bertrand Tan (Department of Biomedical Sciences, CGU)

Recent Advances in Statistical Analysis of Genomic Data
Moderator: Prof. Miin-Jye Wen (Department of Statistics, NCKU)
　　　　　Dr. Shuen-Lin Jeng (Department of Statistics, NCKU)

Plenary Lecture II:
Big challenges of big data: Biomedical science in the petabyte era
Dr. Yu Shyr (Department of Biostatistics, Biomedical Informatics, Cancer Biology, and Health Policy, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University)

Finding the lost treasures of genomic data with robust quality control
Dr. Yan Guo (Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University)

Integration of Boolean and Bayesian networks
Dr. Henry Horng-Shing Lu (Institute of Statistics, NCTU)

Sample size calculation based on generalized linear model for assessing differential expression analysis in RNA-seq
Dr. Chung-I Li (Department of Applied Mathematics, NCYU)

A Combined Association Test for Rare Variants Using Family and Case-control Sequencing Data
Dr. Ren-Hua Chung (Institute of Population Health Sciences, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, NHRI)

Homozygosity disequilibrium and its importance in medical genomics and population genomics
Dr. Hsin-Chou Yang (Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica)

Emerging Bioinformatics for the Genomics Research
Moderator: Dr. H. Sunny Sun (Institute of Molecular Medicine, NCKU)

Plenary Lecture III:
Development of knowledge based analysis platform for NGS big data
Dr. Kazuho Ikeo (National Institute of Genetics, Japan)

Orchid Genomics Research
Dr. Hong-Hwa Chen (Institute of Tropical Plant Sciences, NCKU)

Molecular Evolution of Multiple-Level Control of Heme Biosynthesis Pathway in Animal Kingdom
Dr. Wen-Shyong Tzou (Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, NTOU)

TransOmics SNV Analysis Platform for Cancer Research
Dr. Petrus Tang (Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, CGU)

Optimizing information in next-generation sequencing reads for improving de novo genome assembly
Dr. Tsung-Lin Liu (Institute of Bioinformatics and Biosignal Transduction, NCKU)

Non-model Species Genomics
Moderator: Dr. Tzen-Yuh Chiang (Department of Life Sciences, NCKU)

Plenary Lecture IV:
Challenge of population genomics in non-model organisms
Dr. Naoki Osada (National Institute of Genetics, Japan)

Comparative analysis revealing root transcriptomic changes in rice under different rhizotoxic stresses
Dr. Hao-Jen Huang (Department of Life Sciences, NCKU)

Genomic divergence in saprophytic Gastrodia (Orchidiaceae)
Dr. Yu-Chung Chiang (Department of Biological Science, NSYSU)

Evolutionary significance of gene expression divergence of the neo-sex chromosomes in Drosophila albomicans
Dr. Chau-Ti Ting (Department of Life Science, NTU)

Functional and metabolic pathways enrichment analysis by using high-throughput transcriptome data in plants
Dr. Wen-Chi Chang (Institute of Tropical Plant Sciences, NCKU)

Genomic divergence and adaptation in Miscanthus (Poaceae)
Dr. Tzen-Yuh Chiang (Department of Life Sciences, NCKU)