Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2005, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil, July 27-29, 2005, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (3594))

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2005, held in Sao Leopoldo, Brazil in July 2005. The 15 revised full papers and 10 revised extended abstracts presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers address a broad range of current topics in computational biology and bioinformatics. [pt. 1] Invited Papers: -- Differential Gene Expression In The Auditory System / Irene S. Gabashvili, Richard J. Carter, Peter Markstein, Anne B.s. Giersch -- Searching For Non-coding Rna / Walter L. Ruzzo -- Cyberinfrastructure For Pathosystems Biology / Bruno W.s. Sobral -- Analysis Of Genomic Tiling Microarrays For Transcript Mapping And The Identification Of Transcription Factor Binding Sites / Joel Rozowsky, Paul Bertone, Thomas Royce, Sherman Weissman, Michael Snyder, Mark Gerstein -- [pt. 2] Full Paper: -- Perturbing Thermodynamically Unfeasible Metabolic Networks / R. Nigam And S. Liang -- Protein Cellular Localization With Multiclass Support Vector Machines And Decision Trees / Ana Carolina Lorena And Andr ̌c.p.l.f. De Carvalho -- Combining One-class Classifiers For Robust Novelty Detection In Gene Expression Data / Eduardo J. Spinosa And André C.p.l.f. De Carvalho --^ Evaluation Of The Contents Of Partitions Obtained With Clustering Gene Expression Data / Katti Faceli, Andr ̌c.p.l.f. De Carvalho, Marcílio C.p. De Souto -- Machine Learning Techniques For Predicting Bacillus Subtilis Promoters / Meika I. Monteiro, Marcilio C.p. De Souto, Luiz M.g. Gonçalves, Lucymara F. Agnez-lima -- An Improved Hidden Markov Model Methodology To Discover Prokaryotic Promoters / Adriana Neves Dos Reis And Ney Lemke -- Modeling And Property Verification Of Lactose Operon Regulation / Marcelo Cezar Pinto, Luciana Foss, José Carlos Merino Mombach, Leila Ribeiro -- Yamones: A Computational Architecture For Molecular Network Simulation / Guilherme Balestieri Bedin And Ney Lemke -- Structure Prediction And Docking Studies Of Chorismate Synthase From Mycobacterium Tuberculosis / Cláudia Lemelle Fernandes, Diógenes Santiago Santos, Luiz Augusto Basso, Osmar Norberto De Souza --^ Analysis Of The Effects Of Multiple Sequence Alignments In Protein Secondary Structure Prediction / Georgios Joannis Pappas Jr. And Shankar Subramaniam -- Tests Of Automatic Annotation Using Kog Proteins And Ests From 4 Eukariotic Organisms / Maurício De Alvarenga Mudado, Estevam Bravo-neto, José Miguel Ortega -- Diet As A Pressure On The Amino Acid Content Of Proteomes / Francisco Prosdocimi And J. Miguel Ortega -- A Method For Comparing Three Genomes / Guilherme P. Telles, Marcelo M. Brigido, Nalvo F. Almeida, Carlos J.m. Viana, Daniel A.s. Anjos, Maria Emilia M.t. Walter -- Comparison Of Genomic Dna To Cdna Alignment Methods / Miguel Galves And Zanoni Dias -- Segmentation And Centromere Locating Methods Applied To Fish Chromosomes Images / Elaine Ribeiro De Faria, Denise Guliato, Jean Carlo De Sousa Santos -- [pt. 3] Extended Abstracts: -- Sequence Motif Identification And Protein Family Classification Using Probabilistic Trees / Florencia Leonardi And Antonio Galves --^ Prediction Of Myotoxic And Neurotoxic Activities In Phospholipases A2 From Primary Sequence Analysis / Fabiano Pazzini, Fernanda Oliveira, Jorge A. Guimarês, Hermes Lus̕ Neubauer De Amorim -- Genomics And Gene Expression Management Tools For The Schistosoma Mansoni Cdna Microarray Project / Venancio Thiago. M., Demarco Ricardo, Oliveira Katia C.p., Simoes Ana Carolina Quirino, Da Silva Aline Maria, Verjovski-almeida Sergio -- Sam Method As An Approach To Select Candidates For Human Prostate Cancer Markers / Acq Simoes, Am Da Silva, S Verjovski-almeida, Em Reis -- New Est Trimming Strategy / Christian Baudet And Zanoni Dias --^ A Modification Of The Landau-vishkin Algorithm Computing Longest Common Extensions Via Suffix Arrays / Rodrigo De Castro Miranda And Mauricio Ayala-rincón The BiopauÁ Project: A Portal For Molecular Dynamics Using Grid Environment / Alan Wilter, Carla Osthoff, Cristiane Oliveira, Diego E.b. Gomes, Eduardo Hill, Laurent E. Dardenne, Patrícia M. Barros, Pedro A.a.g.l. Loureiro, Reynaldo Novaes, Pedro G. Pascutti -- Analysis Of Structure Prediction Tools In Mutated Mecp-2 / Dino Franklin And Ivan Da Silva Sendin -- Protein Loop Classification Using Artificial Neural Networks / Armando Vieira And Baldomero Oliva -- Viz -- A Graphical Open-source Architecture For Use In Structural Bioinformatics / Ricardo M. Czekster And Osmar Norberto De Souza -- Selection Of Data Sets Of Motifs As Attributes In The Process Of Automating The Annotation Of Proteins℗ Keywords / Ana L.c. Bazzan And Cassia T. Dos Santos --^ Bioinformatics Tools For Hiv-1 Identification In Southern Brazilian States / Ardala Breda, Clùdia Lemelle Fernandes, Sabrina Esteves De Matos Almeida, Heitor Moreira Franco, Maria Lúcia Rosa Rossetti, Rosângela Rodrigues, Lus̕ Fernando Brígido, Elizabeth Cortez-herrera -- Fact And Task Oriented System For Genome Assembly And Annotation / Luciano A. Digiampietri, Julia M. Perdigueiro, Aloisio J. De Almeida Junior, Daniel M. Faria, Eric H. Ostroski, Gustavo G.l. Costa, Marcelo C. Perez -- A Clustering Strategy To Find Similarities In Mycoplasma Promoters / João Francisco Valiati And Paulo Martins Engel -- Gene Prediction By Syntenic Alignment / Said Sadique Adi And Carlos Eduardo Ferreira -- Real Time Immersive Visualization And Manipulation Of The Visible Human Data Set / Ilana De Almeida Souza, Claudiney Sanches Junior, André Luiz Miranda Da Rosa, Patrícia Trautenmüller, Thiago Tognoli Lopes, Marcelo Knörich Zuffo. João Carlos Setubal, Sergio Verjovski-almeida (eds.). Includes Bibliographic References And Index. Also Issued Online. "The Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics (BSB 2005) was held in Sao Leopoldo, Brazil, July 27-29, 2005, on the campus of the Universidade Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos)."