5. JBI 2004: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Xavier Messeguer, Gabriel Valiente (Eds.): Proceedings of the 5th Annual Spanish Bioinformatics Conference, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, November 29-30, 2004. Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona 2004 ISBN 84-7653-863-4
Functional Analysis
Javier Herrero, Juan M. Vaquerizas, Fátima Al-Shahrour, Lucía Conde, Álvaro Mateos, Javier Santoyo, Ramón Díaz-Uriarte, Joaquín Dopazo: New Challenges in Gene Expression Data Analysis and the Extended GEPAS. 1-5
Paul Kellam, Stephen Swift, Allan Tucker, Veronica Vinciotti, Nigel J. Martin, Christine A. Orengo, Xiaohui Liu: Consensus Clustering and Functional Interpretation of Gene Expression Data. 6
Albert Sorribas, Ester Vilaprinyó: Bridging the Gap between Gene Expression and Physiological Phenotype: Is there still Room for Kinetic Models? 7-11
Structural Analysis and Modelling
Juan Fernández-Recio: Optimized Desolvation for Rigid-Body Docking: Fast Prediction of Protein Interaction Sites. 12-15
Marta Bueno, Carlos J. Camacho, Javier Sancho: What Works (and What Doesn't) in Estimating the Change in Free Energy due to Point Mutations in the Protein Interior. 20-22
Daniel Monleón, Vicent Esteve, Lucía Yim, Marta Martínez-Vicente, María-Eugenia Armengod, Bernardo Celda: Semi-Empirical NMR-Based Protein Homology Modelling driven by Chemical Shift Back Calculations. 23-24
Comparative Genomics
Rosario Gil, Francisco J. Silva, Juli Peretó, Andrés Moya: Proposal of a Minimal Genome for Bacterial Life. 25-29
Juan F. Poyatos, Laurence D. Hurst: On the Biological Relevance of Modules in Protein Interaction Networks. 34-36
Molecular Evolution
Albert J. Vilella, Angel Blanco-Garcia, Stephan Hutter, Julio Rozas: Analysis of Evolutionary Patterns from Huge DNA Sequence Data. 37-39
Iñaki Comas, Andrés Moya, Fernando González-Candelas: Exploring the Phylogenetic Landscape of {P}roteobacteria using Phylogenomic Approaches. 40-42
Juan Garcia Ranea, Alastair Grant, Janet M. Thornton, Christine A. Orengo: Microeconomic Principles Explain an Optimal Genome Size in Bacteria. 43
Biomedical Informatics
Richard Myers, Catherine V. Gale, Caroline Clark, Julie Bennett, Richard S. Tedder, Ian G. Williams, Paul Kellam: The Novel Virus Genotyping Tool (STAR) and its Use in Subtyping Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1 and Hepatitis B Viruses. 44
Núria López-Bigas, Christos A. Ouzounis: Properties of Genes involved in Human Genetic Disease. 45-46
Computational Methods
Ramón Díaz-Uriarte: Variable Selection from Random Forests: Application to Gene Expression Data. 47-52
Vicente Arnau, Sergio Mars, Ignacio Marín: UVCLUSTER: Searching For Regularities in Complex Graphs. 53-55
Liliana Félix, Francesc Rosselló, Gabriel Valiente: Artificial Chemistries and Metabolic Pathways. 56-59
Adrián López García de Lomana, Gina Abelló, Berta Alsina, Jordi Villà-Freixa: Simulation of the Notch Genetic Network during Early Development of the Vertebrate Inner Ear. 60-62
Sequence Analysis
Eduardo Eyras: Automatic Annotation of Alternative of Alternative Splicing in Eukaryotic Genomes. 63-67
Joan Planas-Iglesias, Daniel Aguilar, Baldomero Oliva: On the Analysis of the Intersection of the Interactome and the Metabolome. 68-69
Ana María Rojas, Luis Sánchez-Pulido, Agnes Fütterer, Karel H. M. van Wely, Carlos Martínez-A, Alfonso Valencia: Bioinformatic Analyses of the Dio Family of Proteins. 70-71
Posters
Damián López, Antonio Cano, Manuel Vazquez de Parga, Belén Calles, José M. Sempere, Tomás Pérez, José Ruiz, Pedro García: Detection of Functional Motifs in Biosequences: A Grammatical Inference Approach. 72-75
Marta Bueno, Jesus Tejero, Javier Sancho: The Long and Short Flavodoxins: Evolutionary Origin and Role of the Differentiating Loop in Apoflavodoxin Structure. 76-79
Carlos Prieto, Alberto de Luis, Javier De Las Rivas: Integration and Comparison of Interactome Databases. 80-83
Juan José Lozano, Susana G. Kalko: AMarge: Automated Extensive Quality Assessment of Affymetrix Chips. 84-86
Ferran Reverter, Esteban Vegas: Kernel-Based Fisher Discriminant Analysis for Microarray Data. 87-91
Leonardo Arbiza, Joaquín Dopazo, Hernán Dopazo: Infering Non-Neutral Evolution within the Context of a Growing Genomic Framework: Preliminary Results using Human-Chimp Proteomes. 92-99
Pablo Marín-García, Heikki Lehväslaiho: MutRes and LsdbRes: A Bioinformatics Platform for Mutation Databases. 100
José Santos: Codon Based Amino Acid Encoding for the Neural Network Prediction of Protein Secondary Structure. 101-106
Mireia Vilardell, Alex Sánchez: The Gene Identification Problem from a Hypotheses Test Perspective. 107-112
Carlos Morcillo-Suarez, Josep Alegre, Marc Esteve, Jaume Bertranpetit, Francesc Calafell, Arcadi Navarro: A Web-Based Utility for High-Throughput SNP Data Analysis. 113
David Talavera, Carles Ferrer-Costa, Modesto Orozco, Xavier de la Cruz: Comparative Study of MAPK 9 Alternative Splicing from Human and Mouse. 114-117
Tomàs Marquès-Bonet, Oscar Lao, Robert Goertsches, Manuel Comabella, Xavier Montalban, Arcadi Navarro: A Tool for Heuristic Detection of Association Clusters in Whole-Genome Scans. 118
Sergio Lois, Xavier de la Cruz: A Bioinformatic Approach to the Comparative Study of Human and Mouse Proteomes. 119-121
Itizar Frades, Richard J. Edwards, Denis C. Shields: Investigating the 3D Conformation of N-Terminally Constrained Oligopeptides. 122-123
David Piedra, Miquel Calvo, Xavier de la Cruz: A Study of the Impact of Sequence Variability in Protein Cavities. 124-127
Carles Ferrer-Costa, Modesto Orozco, Xavier de la Cruz: Annotation of Non-Human Pathological Mutations utilising Human-Parameterised Neural Networks. 128-131
Javier Santoyo, Juan M. Vaquerizas, Joaquín Dopazo: Highly Specific and Accurate Selection of siRNAs for High-Throughput Functional Assays. 132-136
Sònia Casillas, Natalia Petit, Raquel Egea, Antonio Barbadilla: Storage, Representation and Analysis of Nucleotide Polymorphism. 137-141
Alberto de Luis, Javier De Las Rivas: Investigating the Assignment of Probes to Transcripts in Affymetrix Microarrays. 146-147
Ricardo Alberich, Jairo Rocha: New Relations in the Edge Ideal Metrics Family for Biopolymers. 148-153
Borys Wróbel, Rafael Sanjuán, Andrés Moya, Fernando González-Candelas: The Use of Weighted Least Squares Test Statistic in Branch and Topology Testing. 154-156
Lucía Conde, Juan M. Vaquerizas, Javier Santoyo, Fátima Al-Shahrour, Joaquín Dopazo: Finding SNPs with Putative Phenotypic Effect at Transcriptional Level. 157-160

Domènec Farré, David García, M. Mar Albà, Xavier Messeguer: Prediction of Transcription Factor Binding Sites with PROMO v.3: Improving the Specificity of Weight Matrices and the Searching Process. 171-172
Ramón Díaz-Uriarte, David Casado: Can we Find Molecular Signatures from Gene Expression Data? 173-178
Jorge Estrada, Marta Bueno, Adrián Velázquez, Nunilo Cremades, Javier Sancho: Virtual Screening of Small Molecules Binding to an Engineered Protein Cavity in Flavodoxin using Freely Available Docking Software. 179-181
Giulio Marcon, Nicola Cannata, Mercè Llabrés, Marta Simeoni, Giorgio Valle: Ordering BAC Clones from Fingerprint Data obtained through Four Enzymes Digestion and Fluorescent Labeling. 182-190
Raquel Tobes, Eduardo Pareja: Repetitive Extragenic Palindromic Sequences in Pseudomonas syringae pv.\ tomato DC3000 Genome. 191-193
Juanjo Lozano, David Otero, Belén Miñana, Eva González, Lauro Sumoy: A Web Based Suite of Tools for Microarray Quality Control and Data Analysis. 194-195
Eduardo López-Viñas, Antonio G. Cordente, Montserrat Morillas, Fausto G. Hegardt, Paulino Gómez-Puertas: Bioinformatic Analysis of Functional Characteristics of Enzymatic Active Centres using both Sequence and Structure Information: An Application to the Carnitine/Choline Acyltransferases Protein Family. 196-203
Antoni Valencia, Martín Pérez, Adam Hospital, Joan Carles Fernández, Elena Manresa, Robert Soliva, Josep Lluis Gelpí, Modesto Orozco: Comparison of Active Centers of Proteins: The Kinesin Family as a Test Case. 205
Antonio Morreale, Xavier de la Cruz, Tim Meyer, Josep Lluis Gelpí, F. Javier Luque, Modesto Orozco: Hydration Free Energy in Macromolecules. 206-207
Xavier Solé, Raquel Iniesta, Elisabet Guinó, Joan Valls, Víctor Moreno: Assessment of Genetic Association using Haplotypes Inferred with Uncertainty. 208-210
Ana Conesa, Stefan Götz, Juan Miguel García-Gómez, Montserrat Robles, Manuel Talón: Blast2GO: A Universal Annotation and Visualization Tool for Functional Genomics Research. 211
Ana Conesa, María José Nueda, Alberto Ferrer, Manuel Talón: maSigPro: a Method to Identify Significantly Differential Expression Profiles in Time-Course Microarray Experiments. 212



