Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Third Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, Bsb 2008, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 28-30, 2008, Pr (Paperback, 2008)

Selected Articles.- Multi-label Hierarchical Classification of Protein Functions with Artificial Immune Systems.- Operon Prediction in Bacterial Genomes.- An Evaluation of the Impact of Side Chain Positioning on the Accuracy of Discrete Models of Protein Structures.- Top-Down Hierarchical Ensembles of Classifiers for Predicting G-Protein-Coupled-Receptor Functions.- A Hybrid Method for the Protein Structure Prediction Problem.- Detecting Statistical Covariations of Sequence Physicochemical Properties.- Molecular Models to Emulate Confinement Effects on the Internal Dynamics of Organophosphorous Hydrolase.- On the Toric Graph as a Tool to Handle the Problem of Sorting by Transpositions.- A Customized Class of Functions for Modeling and Clustering Gene Expression Profiles in Embryonic Stem Cells.- Extracting Information from Flexible Receptor-Flexible Ligand Docking Experiments.- Transposition Distance Based on the Algebraic Formalism.- Using BioAgents for Supporting Manual Annotation on Genome Sequencing Projects.- Application of Genetic Algorithms to the Genetic Regulation Problem.- Tests for Gene Clusters Satisfying the Generalized Adjacency Criterion.- Extended Abstracts.- Identity Transposon Networks in D. melanogaster.- Prediction of Protein-Protein Binding Hot Spots: A Combination of Classifiers Approach.- AGN Simulation and Validation Model.- A Practical Evaluation of BioProvider.- Evaluation of Models for the Recognition of Hadwritten Digits in Medical Forms.