Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2007, held in Angra dos Reis, Brazil, in August 2007, co-located with IWGD 2007, the International Workshop on Genomic Databases. The papers address a broad range of current topics in computational biology and bioinformatics.

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