Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Third Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2008, Santo André, Brazil, August 28-30, 2008. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Multi-label Hierarchical Classification of Protein Functions with Artificial Immune Systems....Pages 1-12
Operon Prediction in Bacterial Genomes....Pages 13-22
An Evaluation of the Impact of Side Chain Positioning on the Accuracy of Discrete Models of Protein Structures....Pages 23-34
Top-Down Hierarchical Ensembles of Classifiers for Predicting G-Protein-Coupled-Receptor Functions....Pages 35-46
A Hybrid Method for the Protein Structure Prediction Problem....Pages 47-56
Detecting Statistical Covariations of Sequence Physicochemical Properties....Pages 57-67
Molecular Models to Emulate Confinement Effects on the Internal Dynamics of Organophosphorous Hydrolase....Pages 68-78
On the Toric Graph as a Tool to Handle the Problem of Sorting by Transpositions....Pages 79-91
A Customized Class of Functions for Modeling and Clustering Gene Expression Profiles in Embryonic Stem Cells....Pages 92-103
Extracting Information from Flexible Receptor-Flexible Ligand Docking Experiments....Pages 104-114
Transposition Distance Based on the Algebraic Formalism....Pages 115-126
Using BioAgents for Supporting Manual Annotation on Genome Sequencing Projects....Pages 127-139
Application of Genetic Algorithms to the Genetic Regulation Problem....Pages 140-151
Tests for Gene Clusters Satisfying the Generalized Adjacency Criterion....Pages 152-160
Identity Transposon Networks in D. melanogaster ....Pages 161-164
Prediction of Protein-Protein Binding Hot Spots: A Combination of Classifiers Approach....Pages 165-168
AGN Simulation and Validation Model....Pages 169-173
A Practical Evaluation of BioProvider....Pages 174-177
Evaluation of Models for the Recognition of Hadwritten Digits in Medical Forms....Pages 178-181
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