Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Second Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2007, Angra dos Reis, Brazil, August 29-31, 2007. Proceedings

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Automating Molecular Docking with Explicit Receptor Flexibility Using Scientific Workflows....Pages 1-11
Gene Set Enrichment Analysis Using Non-parametric Scores....Pages 12-21
Comparison of Simple Encoding Schemes in GA’s for the Motif Finding Problem: Preliminary Results....Pages 22-33
Multi-Objective Clustering Ensemble with Prior Knowledge....Pages 34-45
Biological Sequence Comparison Application in Heterogeneous Environments with Dynamic Programming Algorithms....Pages 46-56
New EST Trimming Procedure Applied to SUCEST Sequences....Pages 57-68
A Method for Inferring Biological Functions Using Homologous Genes Among Three Genomes....Pages 69-80
Validating Gene Clusterings by Selecting Informative Gene Ontology Terms with Mutual Information....Pages 81-92
An Optimized Distance Function for Comparison of Protein Binding Sites....Pages 93-100
Comparing RNA Structures: Towards an Intermediate Model Between the Edit and the Lapcs Problems....Pages 101-112
Evolving Phylogenetic Trees: A Multiobjective Approach....Pages 113-125
Comparing Several Approaches for Hierarchical Classification of Proteins with Decision Trees....Pages 126-137
High Efficiency on Prediction of Translation Initiation Site (TIS) of RefSeq Sequences....Pages 138-148
Outlining a Strategy for Screening Non-coding RNAs on a Transcriptome Through Support Vector Machines....Pages 149-152
Mapping Contigs onto Reference Genomes....Pages 153-157
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Cruzipains 1 and 2 at Different Temperatures....Pages 158-162
Genetic Algorithm for Finding Multiple Low Energy Conformations of Poly Alanine Sequences Under an Atomistic Protein Model....Pages 163-166
Cellular Fingerprints: A Novel Concept for the Integration of Experimental Data and Compound-Target-Pathway Relations (Extended Abstract)....Pages 167-170
Identification of the Putative Class 3 R Genes in Coffea arabica from CafEST Database....Pages 171-175
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