Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics: 5th International Meeting, CIBB 2008 Vietri sul Mare, Italy, October 3-4, 2008 Revised Selected Papers

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Coarse-Grained Modeling of the HIV–1 Protease Binding Mechanisms: I. Targeting Structural Flexibility of the Protease Flaps and Implications for Drug Design....Pages 1-12
Coarse-Grained Modeling of the HIV–1 Protease Binding Mechanisms: II. Folding Inhibition....Pages 13-24
Unsupervised Stability-Based Ensembles to Discover Reliable Structures in Complex Bio-molecular Data....Pages 25-43
Comparative In Silico Evaluation of MYB Transcription Factors in Eucalyptus, Sugarcane and Rice Transcriptomes....Pages 44-55
Building Maps of Drugs Mode-of-Action from Gene Expression Data....Pages 56-65
 In Silico Evaluation of Osmoprotectants in Eucalyptus Transcriptome....Pages 66-77
Mining Association Rule Bases from Integrated Genomic Data and Annotations....Pages 78-90
Stability and Performances in Biclustering Algorithms....Pages 91-101
Splice Site Prediction Using Artificial Neural Networks....Pages 102-113
Interval Length Analysis in Multi Layer Model....Pages 114-122
A Multivariate Algorithm for Gene Selection Based on the Nearest Neighbor Probability....Pages 123-131
Control of Cellular Glycolysis by Perturbations in the Glucose Influx....Pages 132-143
Curating a Large-Scale Regulatory Network by Evaluating Its Consistency with Expression Datasets....Pages 144-155
Spatial Clustering of Molecular Dynamics Trajectories in Protein Unfolding Simulations....Pages 156-166
Clustering Bacteria Species Using Neural Gas: Preliminary Study....Pages 167-176
A New Linear Initialization in SOM for Biomolecular Data....Pages 177-187
3D Volume Reconstruction and Biometric Analysis of Fetal Brain from MR Images....Pages 188-197
Searching for Glycomics Role in Stem Cell Development....Pages 198-209
A New Protein Representation Based on Fragment Contacts: Towards an Improvement of Contact Maps Predictions....Pages 210-221
Analysis of Kernel Based Protein Classification Strategies Using Pairwise Sequence Alignment Measures....Pages 222-231
Topology Preserving Neural Networks for Peptide Design in Drug Discovery....Pages 232-241
A Machine Learning Approach to Mass Spectra Classification with Unsupervised Feature Selection....Pages 242-252
Liver i-Biopsy TM and the Corresponding Intelligent Fibrosis Scoring Systems: i-Metavir F and i-Ishak F....Pages 253-264
An Extension of the TIGR M4 Suite to Preprocess and Visualize Affymetrix Binary Files....Pages 265-274
A Supervised Learning Technique and Its Applications to Computational Biology....Pages 275-283
A Visualization ToolKit Based Application for Representing Macromolecular Surfaces....Pages 284-292
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