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Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Third Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2008, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 28-30, 2008, Proceedings

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  1. Ana L. C. Bazzan
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  2. Mark Craven
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  3. Natália F. Martins
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5167)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI)

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Table of contents (19 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Selected Articles

    1. Multi-label Hierarchical Classification of Protein Functions with Artificial Immune Systems

      • Roberto T. Alves, Myriam R. Delgado, Alex A. Freitas
      Pages 1-12

    2. Operon Prediction in Bacterial Genomes

      • Matheus B. S. Barros, Simone de L. Martins, Alexandre Plastino
      Pages 13-22

    3. An Evaluation of the Impact of Side Chain Positioning on the Accuracy of Discrete Models of Protein Structures

      • Miguel M. F. Bugalho, Arlindo L. Oliveira
      Pages 23-34

    4. Top-Down Hierarchical Ensembles of Classifiers for Predicting G-Protein-Coupled-Receptor Functions

      • Eduardo P. Costa, Ana C. Lorena, André C. P. L. F. Carvalho, Alex A. Freitas
      Pages 35-46

    5. A Hybrid Method for the Protein Structure Prediction Problem

      • Márcio Dorn, Ardala Breda, Osmar Norberto de Souza
      Pages 47-56

    6. Detecting Statistical Covariations of Sequence Physicochemical Properties

      • Moshe A. Gadish, David K. Y. Chiu
      Pages 57-67

    7. Molecular Models to Emulate Confinement Effects on the Internal Dynamics of Organophosphorous Hydrolase

      • Diego E. B. Gomes, Roberto D. Lins, Pedro G. Pascutti, Tjerk P. Straatsma, Thereza A. Soares
      Pages 68-78

    8. On the Toric Graph as a Tool to Handle the Problem of Sorting by Transpositions

      • Rodrigo de A. Hausen, Luerbio Faria, Celina M. H. de Figueiredo, Luis Antonio B. Kowada
      Pages 79-91

    9. A Customized Class of Functions for Modeling and Clustering Gene Expression Profiles in Embryonic Stem Cells

      • Shenggang Li, Miguel Andrade-Navarro, David Sankoff
      Pages 92-103

    10. Extracting Information from Flexible Receptor-Flexible Ligand Docking Experiments

      • Karina S. Machado, Evelyn K. Schroeder, Duncan D. Ruiz, Ana Wink, Osmar Norberto de Souza
      Pages 104-114

    11. Transposition Distance Based on the Algebraic Formalism

      • Cleber V. G. Mira, Zanoni Dias, Hederson P. Santos, Guilherme A. Pinto, Maria Emilia M. T. Walter
      Pages 115-126

    12. Using BioAgents for Supporting Manual Annotation on Genome Sequencing Projects

      • Célia Ghedini Ralha, Hugo W. Schneider, Lucas O. da Fonseca, Maria Emilia M. T. Walter, Marcelo M. Brígido
      Pages 127-139

    13. Application of Genetic Algorithms to the Genetic Regulation Problem

      • Maria Fernanda B. Wanderley, João C. P. da Silva, Carlos Cristiano H. Borges, Ana Tereza R. Vasconcelos
      Pages 140-151

    14. Tests for Gene Clusters Satisfying the Generalized Adjacency Criterion

      • Ximing Xu, David Sankoff
      Pages 152-160

  3. Extended Abstracts

    1. Identity Transposon Networks in D. melanogaster

      • Alcides Castro-e-Silva, Gerald Weber, Romuel F. Machado, Elizabeth F. Wanner, Renata Guerra-Sá
      Pages 161-164

    2. Prediction of Protein-Protein Binding Hot Spots: A Combination of Classifiers Approach

      • Roberto Hiroshi Higa, Clésio Luis Tozzi
      Pages 165-168

    3. AGN Simulation and Validation Model

      • Fabrício M. Lopes, Roberto M. Cesar Jr, Luciano da F. Costa
      Pages 169-173

    4. A Practical Evaluation of BioProvider

      • Maira Ferreira de Noronha, Sergio Lifschitz, Antonio Basilio de Miranda
      Pages 174-177

    5. Evaluation of Models for the Recognition of Hadwritten Digits in Medical Forms

      • Willian Zalewski, Huei Diana Lee, Adewole M. J. F. Caetano, Ana C. Lorena, André G. Maletzke, João José Fagundes et al.
      Pages 178-181
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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2008, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in August 2008 - co-located with IWGD 2008, the International Workshop on Genomic Databases. The 14 revised full papers and 5 extended abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers address a broad range of current topics in computational biology and bioinformatics featuring original research in computer science, mathematics and statistics as well as in molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, medicine, microbiology and other life sciences.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

  • Book Subtitle: Third Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2008, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 28-30, 2008, Proceedings

  • Editors: Ana L. C. Bazzan, Mark Craven, Natália F. Martins

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85557-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-85556-9Published: 12 August 2008

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-85557-6Published: 28 August 2008

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 186

  • Topics: Theory of Computation, Computer Science, general

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