Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics: 8th International Meeting, CIBB 2011, Gargnano del Garda, Italy, June 30 – July 2, 2011, Revised Selected Papers

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Modelling the Effect of Genes on the Dynamics of Probabilistic Spiking Neural Networks for Computational Neurogenetic Modelling....Pages 1-9
Biostatistics Meets Bioinformatics in Integrating Information from Highdimensional Heterogeneous Genomic Data: Two Examples from Rare Genetic Diseases and Infectious Diseases....Pages 10-20
Bayesian Models for the Multi-sample Time-Course Microarray Experiments....Pages 21-35
A Machine Learning Pipeline for Discriminant Pathways Identification....Pages 36-48
Discovering Hidden Pathways in Bioinformatics....Pages 49-60
Reliability of miRNA Microarray Platforms: An Approach Based on Random Effects Linear Models....Pages 61-72
A Bioinformatics Procedure to Identify and Annotate Somatic Mutations in Whole-Exome Sequencing Data....Pages 73-82
Feature Selection for the Prediction and Visualization of Brain Tumor Types Using Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Data....Pages 83-97
On the Use of Graphical Models to Study ICU Outcome Prediction in Septic Patients Treated with Statins....Pages 98-111
Integration of Biomolecular Interaction Data in a Genomic and Proteomic Data Warehouse to Support Biomedical Knowledge Discovery....Pages 112-126
Machine-Learning Methods to Predict Protein Interaction Sites in Folded Proteins....Pages 127-135
Complementing Kernel-Based Visualization of Protein Sequences with Their Phylogenetic Tree....Pages 136-149
DEEN: A Simple and Fast Algorithm for Network Community Detection....Pages 150-163
Self-similarity in Physiological Time Series: New Perspectives from the Temporal Spectrum of Scale Exponents....Pages 164-175
Support Vector Machines for Survival Regression....Pages 176-189
Boosted C5 Trees i-Biomarkers Panel for Invasive Bladder Cancer Progression Prediction....Pages 190-200
A Faster Algorithm for Motif Finding in Sequences from ChIP-Seq Data....Pages 201-212
Case/Control Prediction from Illumina Methylation Microarray’s β and Two-Color Channels in the Presence of Batch Effects....Pages 213-225
Supporting the Design, Communication and Management of Bioinformatic Protocols through the Leaf Tool....Pages 226-237
Genomic Annotation Prediction Based on Integrated Information....Pages 238-252
Solving Biclustering with a GRASP-Like Metaheuristic: Two Case-Studies on Gene Expression Analysis....Pages 253-267
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