Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Invited Papers.- Differential Gene Expression in the Auditory System.- Searching for Non-coding RNA.- Cyberinfrastructure for PathoSystems Biology.- Analysis of Genomic Tiling Microarrays for Transcript Mapping and the Identification of Transcription Factor Binding Sites.- Full Papers.- Perturbing Thermodynamically Unfeasible Metabolic Networks.- Protein Cellular Localization with Multiclass Support Vector Machines and Decision Trees.- Combining One-Class Classifiers for Robust Novelty Detection in Gene Expression Data.- Evaluation of the Contents of Partitions Obtained with Clustering Gene Expression Data.- Machine Learning Techniques for Predicting Bacillus subtilis Promoters.- An Improved Hidden Markov Model Methodology to Discover Prokaryotic Promoters.- Modeling and Property Verification of Lactose Operon Regulation.- YAMONES: A Computational Architecture for Molecular Network Simulation.- Structure Prediction and Docking Studies of Chorismate Synthase from Mycobacterium Tuberculosis.- Analysis of the Effects of Multiple Sequence Alignments in Protein Secondary Structure Prediction.- Tests of Automatic Annotation Using KOG Proteins and ESTs from 4 Eukariotic Organisms.- Diet as a Pressure on the Amino Acid Content of Proteomes.- A Method for Comparing Three Genomes.- Comparison of Genomic DNA to cDNA Alignment Methods.- Segmentation and Centromere Locating Methods Applied to Fish Chromosomes Images.- Extended Abstracts.- Sequence Motif Identification and Protein Family Classification Using Probabilistic Trees.- Prediction of Myotoxic and Neurotoxic Activities in Phospholipases A2 from Primary Sequence Analysis.- Genomics and Gene Expression Management Tools for the Schistosoma Mansoni cDNA Microarray Project.- SAM Method as an Approach to Select Candidates for Human Prostate Cancer Markers.- New EST Trimming Strategy.- A Modification of the Landau-Vishkin Algorithm Computing Longest Common Extensions via Suffix Arrays.- The BioPAUÁ Project: A Portal for Molecular Dynamics Using Grid Environment.- Analysis of Structure Prediction Tools in Mutated MeCP-2.- Protein Loop Classification Using Artificial Neural Networks.- VIZ – A Graphical Open-Source Architecture for Use in Structural Bioinformatics.- Selection of Data Sets of Motifs as Attributes in the Process of Automating the Annotation of Proteins’ Keywords.- Bioinformatics Tools for HIV-1 Identification in Southern Brazilian States.- Fact and Task Oriented System for Genome Assembly and Annotation.- A Clustering Strategy to Find Similarities in Mycoplasma Promoters.- Gene Prediction by Syntenic Alignment.- Real Time Immersive Visualization and Manipulation of the Visible Human Data Set.