5. CIBB 2008: Vietri sul Mare, Italy

Francesco Masulli, Roberto Tagliaferri, Gennady Verkhivker (Eds.): Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, 5th International Meeting, CIBB 2008, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, October 3-4, 2008, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5488 Springer 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-02503-7

Invited Papers

Gennady Verkhivker:
Coarse-Grained Modeling of the HIV-1 Protease Binding Mechanisms: I. Targeting Structural Flexibility of the Protease Flaps and Implications for Drug Design. 1-12
Gennady Verkhivker:
Coarse-Grained Modeling of the HIV-1 Protease Binding Mechanisms: II. Folding Inhibition. 13-24
Alberto Bertoni, Giorgio Valentini:
Unsupervised Stability-Based Ensembles to Discover Reliable Structures in Complex Bio-molecular Data. 25-43

CIBB Regular Session

Nina M. Soares-Cavalcanti, Ana C. Wanderley-Nogueira, Luis C. Belarmino, Petra dos Santos Barros, Ana M. Benko-Iseppon:
Comparative In Silico Evaluation of MYB Transcription Factors in Eucalyptus, Sugarcane and Rice Transcriptomes. 44-55
Francesco Iorio, Roberto Tagliaferri, Diego di Bernardo:
Building Maps of Drugs Mode-of-Action from Gene Expression Data. 56-65
Petra dos Santos Barros, Nina M. Soares-Cavalcanti, Gabriela S. Vieira-Mello, Ana C. Wanderley-Nogueira, Tercílio Calsa-Junior, Ana M. Benko-Iseppon:
In Silico Evaluation of Osmoprotectants in Eucalyptus Transcriptome. 66-77
Ricardo Martínez, Nicolas Pasquier, Claude Pasquier:
Mining Association Rule Bases from Integrated Genomic Data and Annotations. 78-90
Maurizio Filippone, Francesco Masulli, Stefano Rovetta:
Stability and Performances in Biclustering Algorithms. 91-101
Øystein Johansen, Tom Ryen, Trygve Eftesøl, Thomas Kjosmoen, Peter Ruoff:
Splice Site Prediction Using Artificial Neural Networks. 102-113
Vito Di Gesù, Giosuè Lo Bosco, Luca Pinello:
Interval Length Analysis in Multi Layer Model. 114-122
Enrico Ferrari, Marco Muselli:
A Multivariate Algorithm for Gene Selection Based on the Nearest Neighbor Probability. 123-131
Jaime Arturo de la Torre, Maria Carmen Lemos, Antonio Córdoba:
Control of Cellular Glycolysis by Perturbations in the Glucose Influx. 132-143
Carito Guziolowski, Jeremy Gruel, Ovidiu Radulescu, Anne Siegel:
Curating a Large-Scale Regulatory Network by Evaluating Its Consistency with Expression Datasets. 144-155
Pedro Gabriel Ferreira, Cândida G. Silva, Paulo J. Azevedo, Rui M. M. Brito:
Spatial Clustering of Molecular Dynamics Trajectories in Protein Unfolding Simulations. 156-166
Claudio Mirabello, Riccardo Rizzo, Alfonso Urso, Salvatore Gaglio:
Clustering Bacteria Species Using Neural Gas: Preliminary Study. 167-176
Antonino Fiannaca, Giuseppe Di Fatta, Alfonso Urso, Riccardo Rizzo, Salvatore Gaglio:
A New Linear Initialization in SOM for Biomolecular Data. 177-187
Paola Campadelli, Elena Casiraghi, Gabriele Lombardi, Graziano Serrao:
3D Volume Reconstruction and Biometric Analysis of Fetal Brain from MR Images. 188-197
Anil Sorathiya, Tadas Jucikas, Stephanie Piecewicz, Shiladitya Sengupta, Pietro Liò:
Searching for Glycomics Role in Stem Cell Development. 198-209
Pietro di Lena, Luciano Margara, Marco Vassura, Piero Fariselli, Rita Casadio:
A New Protein Representation Based on Fragment Contacts: Towards an Improvement of Contact Maps Predictions. 210-221
Dino Franklin, Somdutta Dhir, Sándor Pongor:
Analysis of Kernel Based Protein Classification Strategies Using Pairwise Sequence Alignment Measures. 222-231

Special Session: ISMDS - Intelligent Systems for Medical Decisions Support

Jörg D. Wichard, Sebastian Bandholtz, Carsten Grötzinger, Ronald Kühne:
Topology Preserving Neural Networks for Peptide Design in Drug Discovery. 232-241
Michele Ceccarelli, Antonio d'Acierno, Angelo Facchiano:
A Machine Learning Approach to Mass Spectra Classification with Unsupervised Feature Selection. 242-252
Alexandru George Floares:
Liver i-BiopsyTM and the Corresponding Intelligent Fibrosis Scoring Systems: i-Metavir F and i-Ishak F. 253-264

Special Session: Computational Intelligence for Biological Data Visualization

Mario Cannataro, Maria Teresa Di Martino, Pietro Hiram Guzzi, Pierosandro Tagliaferri, Pierfrancesco Tassone, Giuseppe Tradigo, Pierangelo Veltri:
An Extension of the TIGR M4 Suite to Preprocess and Visualize Affymetrix Binary Files. 265-274
Mario Rosario Guarracino, Altannar Chinchuluun, Panos M. Pardalos:
A Supervised Learning Technique and Its Applications to Computational Biology. 275-283
Paolo Cozzi, Ivan Merelli, Luciano Milanesi:
A Visualization ToolKit Based Application for Representing Macromolecular Surfaces. 284-292