Advances in bioinformatics and computational biology : 6th Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2011, Brasília, Brazil, August 10-12, 2011 ; proceedings

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2011, held in Brasília, Brazil, in August 2011. The 8 full papers and 4 extended abstracts presented were carefully peer-reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. The BSB topics of interest cover many areas of bioinformatics that range from theoretical aspects of problems in bioinformatics to applications in molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, and associated subjects. Front Matter....Pages - MicroRNA or Not MicroRNA?....Pages 1-9 Hierarchical Multilabel Protein Function Prediction Using Local Neural Networks....Pages 10-17 Identifying Significant Features in HIV Sequence to Predict Patients’ Response to Therapies....Pages 18-25 Gene Prediction by Multiple Spliced Alignment....Pages 26-33 A New Algorithm for Sparse Suffix Trees....Pages 34-41 Analysis and Implementation of Sorting by Transpositions Using Permutation Trees....Pages 42-49 Improved Gene Expression Clustering with the Parameter-Free PKNNG Metric....Pages 50-57 Efficiently Querying Protein Sequences with the Proteinus Index....Pages 58-65 SciPhy: A Cloud-Based Workflow for Phylogenetic Analysis of Drug Targets in Protozoan Genomes....Pages 66-70 A Conceptual Model for Transcriptome High-Throughput Sequencing Pipeline....Pages 71-74 A Conceptual Many Tasks Computing Architecture to Execute Molecular Docking Simulations of a Fully-Flexible Receptor Model....Pages 75-78 k GC: Finding Groups of Homologous Genes across Multiple Genomes....Pages 79-82 Back Matter....Pages - This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2011, held in Brasilia, Brazil, in August 2011.