Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics: 14th International Meeting, CIBB 2017, Cagliari, Italy, September 7-9, 2017, Revised Selected Papers

Front Matter ....Pages I-X
 An Open-Source Tool for Managing Time-Evolving Variant Annotation  (Ilio Catallo, Eleonora Ciceri, Stefania Stenirri, Stefania Merella, Alberto Sanna, Maurizio Ferrari et al.)....Pages 1-8
 Extracting Few Representative Reconciliations with Host Switches  (Mattia Gastaldello, Tiziana Calamoneri, Marie-France Sagot)....Pages 9-18
 A Quantitative and Qualitative Characterization of k-mer Based Alignment-Free Phylogeny Construction  (Filippo Utro, Daniel E. Platt, Laxmi Parida)....Pages 19-31
 Cancer Mutational Signatures Identification with Sparse Dictionary Learning  (Veronica Tozzo, Annalisa Barla)....Pages 32-41
 Icing: Large-Scale Inference of Immunoglobulin Clonotypes  (Federico Tomasi, Margherita Squillario, Alessandro Verri, Davide Bagnara, Annalisa Barla)....Pages 42-50
 Adenine: A HPC-Oriented Tool for Biological Data Exploration  (Samuele Fiorini, Federico Tomasi, Margherita Squillario, Annalisa Barla)....Pages 51-59
 Disease–Genes Must Guide Data Source Integration in the Gene Prioritization Process  (Marco Frasca, Jean Fred Fontaine, Giorgio Valentini, Marco Mesiti, Marco Notaro, Dario Malchiodi et al.)....Pages 60-69
 Ensembling Descendant Term Classifiers to Improve Gene - Abnormal Phenotype Predictions  (Marco Notaro, Max Schubach, Marco Frasca, Marco Mesiti, Peter N. Robinson, Giorgio Valentini)....Pages 70-80
 GP-Based Grammatical Inference for Classification of Amyloidogenic Sequences  (Wojciech Wieczorek, Olgierd Unold)....Pages 81-91
 Estimation of Kinetic Reaction Constants: Exploiting Reboot Strategies to Improve PSO’s Performance  (Simone Spolaor, Andrea Tangherloni, Leonardo Rundo, Paolo Cazzaniga, Marco S. Nobile)....Pages 92-102
 Haplotype and Repeat Separation in Long Reads  (German Tischler-Höhle)....Pages 103-114
 Tumor Subclonal Progression Model for Cancer Hallmark Acquisition  (Yusuke Matsui, Satoru Miyano, Teppei Shimamura)....Pages 115-123
 GIMLET: Identifying Biological Modulators in Context-Specific Gene Regulation Using Local Energy Statistics  (Teppei Shimamura, Yusuke Matsui, Taisuke Kajino, Satoshi Ito, Takashi Takahashi, Satoru Miyano)....Pages 124-137
 Structural Features of a DPPG Liposome Layer Adsorbed on a Rough Surface  (Maria Raposo, Andreia A. Duarte, Paulo J. Gomes, Paulo A. Ribeiro, Marli L. Moraes, Roland Steitz)....Pages 138-144
 Chemical Exchanges and Actuation in Liposome-Based Synthetic Cells: Interaction with Biological Cells  (Giordano Rampioni, Francesca D’Angelo, Alessandro Zennaro, Livia Leoni, Pasquale Stano)....Pages 145-158
 A Nano Communication System for CTC Detection in Blood Vessels  (Luca Felicetti, Mauro Femminella, Gianluca Reali)....Pages 159-170
 Experimental Evidences Suggest High Between-Vesicle Diversity of Artificial Vesicle Populations: Results, Models and Implications  (Pasquale Stano, Roberto Marangoni, Fabio Mavelli)....Pages 171-185
 Towards the Synthesis of Photo-Autotrophic Protocells  (Emiliano Altamura, Paola Albanese, Roberto Marotta, Pasquale Stano, Francesco Milano, Massimo Trotta et al.)....Pages 186-199
 Hierarchical Block Matrix Approach for Multi-view Clustering  (Angela Serra, Maria Domenica Guida, Pietro Lió, Roberto Tagliaferri)....Pages 200-212
Back Matter ....Pages 213-213