6th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics

1. Parallel Spectral Clustering for the Segmentation of cDNA Microarray Images
Sandrine Mouysset, Ronan Guivarch, Joseph Noailles, Daniel Ruiz

2. Prognostic Prediction Using Clinical Expression Time Series: Towards a Supervised Learning Approach Based on Meta-biclusters
André V. Carreiro, Artur J. Ferreira, Mário A. T. Figueiredo, Sara C. Madeira

3. Parallel e-CCC-Biclustering: Mining Approximate Temporal Patterns in Gene Expression Time Series Using Parallel Biclustering
Filipe Cristóvão, Sara C. Madeira

4. Identification of Regulatory Binding Sites on mRNA Using in Vivo Derived Informations and SVMs
Carmen Maria Livi, Luc Paillard, Enrico Blanzieri, Yann Audic

5. Parameter Influence in Genetic Algorithm Optimization of Support Vector Machines
Paulo Gaspar, Jaime Carbonell, José Luís Oliveira

6. Biological Knowledge Integration in DNA Microarray Gene Expression Classification Based on Rough Set Theory
D. Calvo-Dmgz, J. F. Galvez, Daniel Glez-Peña, Florentino Fdez-Riverola

7. Quantitative Assessment of Estimation Approaches for Mining over Incomplete Data in Complex Biomedical Spaces: A Case Study on Cerebral Aneurysms
Jesus Bisbal, Gerhard Engelbrecht, Alejandro F. Frangi

8. ASAP: An Automated System for Scientific Literature Search in PubMed Using Web Agents
Carlos Carvalhal, Sérgio Deusdado, Leonel Deusdado

9. Case-Based Reasoning to Classify Endodontic Retreatments
Livia Campo, Vicente Vera, Enrique Garcia, Juan F. Paz, Juan M. Corchado

10. A Comparative Analysis of Balancing Techniques and Attribute Reduction Algorithms
R. Romero, E. L. Iglesias, L. Borrajo

11. Sliced Model Checking for Phylogenetic Analysis
José Ignacio Requeno, Roberto Blanco, Gregorio Miguel Casado, José Manuel Colom

12. PHYSER: An Algorithm to Detect Sequencing Errors from Phylogenetic Information
Jorge Álvarez-Jarreta, Elvira Mayordomo, Eduardo Ruiz-Pesini

13. A Systematic Approach to the Interrogation and Sharing of Standardised Biofilm Signatures
Anália Lourenço, Andreia Ferreira, Maria Olivia Pereira, Nuno F. Azevedo

14. Visual Analysis Tool in Comparative Genomics
Juan F. Paz, Carolina Zato, María Abáigar, Ana Rodríguez-Vicente, Rocío Benito, Jesús M. Hernández

15. From Networks to Trees
Marco Alves, Joãd Alves, Rui Camacho, Pedro Soares, Luísa Pereira

16. Procedure for Detection of Membranes in Three-Dimensional Subcellular Density Maps
A. Martinez-Sanchez, I. Garcia, J. J. Fernandez

17. A Cellular Automaton Model for Tumor Growth Simulation
Ángel Monteagudo, José Santos

18. Ectopic Foci Study on the Crest Terminalis in 3D Computer Model of Human Atrial
Carlos A. Ruiz-Villa, Andrés P. Castaño, Andrés Castillo, Elvio Heidenreich

19. SAD_BaSe: A Blood Bank Data Analysis Software
Augusto Ramoa, Salomé Maia, Anália Lourenço

20. A Rare Disease Patient Manager
Pedro Lopes, Rafael Mendonça, Hugo Rocha, Jorge Oliveira, Laura Vilarinho, Rosário Santos, José Luís Oliveira

21. MorphoCol: A Powerful Tool for the Clinical Profiling of Pathogenic Bacteria
Ana Margarida Sous, Anália Lourenço, Maria Olívia Pereira

22. Applying AIBench Framework to Develop Rich User Interfaces in NGS Studies
Hugo López-Fernández, Daniel Glez-Peña, Miguel Reboiro-Jato, Gonzalo Gómez-López, David G. Pisano, Florentino Fdez-Riverola

23. Comparing Bowtie and BWA to Align Short Reads from a RNA-Seq Experiment
N. Medina-Medina, A. Broka, S. Lacey, H. Lin, E. S. Klings, C. T. Baldwin, M. H. Steinberg, P. Sebastiani

24. SAMasGC: Sequencing Analysis with a Multiagent System and Grid Computing
Roberto González, Carolina Zato, Rocío Benito, María Hernández, Jesús M. Hernández, Juan F. Paz

25. Exon: A Web-Based Software Toolkit for DNA Sequence Analysis
Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho, Sara P. Garcia

26. On the Development of a Pipeline for the Automatic Detection of Positively Selected Sites
David Reboiro-Jato, Miguel Reboiro-Jato, Florentino Fdez-Riverola, Nuno A. Fonseca, Jorge Vieira

27. Compact Representation of Biological Sequences Using Set Decision Diagrams
José Ignacio Requeno, José Manuel Colom

28. Computational Tools for Strain Optimization by Adding Reactions
Sara Correia, Miguel Rocha

29. Computational Tools for Strain Optimization by Tuning the Optimal Level of Gene Expression
Emanuel Gonçalves, Isabel Rocha, Miguel Rocha

30. Efficient Verification for Logical Models of Regulatory Networks
Pedro T. Monteiro, Claudine Chaouiya

31. Tackling Misleading Peptide Regulation Fold Changes in Quantitative Proteomics
Christoph Gernert, Evelin Berger, Frank Klawonn, Lothar Jänsch

32. Coffee Transcriptome Visualization Based on Functional Relationships among Gene Annotations
Luis F. Castillo, Oscar Gómez-Ramírez, Narmer Galeano-Vanegas, Luis Bertel-Paternina, Gustavo Isaza, Álvaro Gaitán-Bustamante

Keywords: Engineering, Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Computational Biology/Bioinformatics