BIOTECHNO 2011, The Third International Conference on Bioinformatics, Biocomputational Systems and Biotechnologies

Type: conference

Notes: IARIA Conference.

Editors:
Pei-Yuan Qian, KAUST, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Son V. Nghiem, Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, USA

ISSN: 2308-4383

ISBN: 978-1-61208-137-3

Location: Venice/Mestre, Italy

Dates: from May 22, 2011 to May 27, 2011

Articles: there are 21 articles

Singular Spectral Analysis on Doppler Ultrasound Records Acquired from Healthy Subjects and Intrinsic Sphincter Deficiency Subjects
Kadir Tufan, Sadık Kara, Fatma Latifoğlu, Sinem Aydın, Adem Kırış, and Ünsal Özkuvancı
keywords: - intrinsic sphincter deficiency; Doppler ultrasound; singular spectral analysis,emprical mode decomposition

Separating Drivers from Passengers in Whole Genome Analysis: Identification of Combinatorial Effects of Genes by Mining Knowledge Sources
Stephen Anthony, Vitali Sintchenko, and Enrico Coiera
keywords: structural bioinformatics; whole genome analysis; text mining; infectious diseases; knowledge discovery

Bio-UnaGrid: Easing Bioinformatics Workflow Execution Using LONI Pipeline and a Virtual Desktop Grid
Mario Villamizar, Harold Castro, David Mendez, Silvia Restrepo, and Luis Rodriguez
keywords: Bio-UnaGrid; grid computing; cluster computing; bioinformatics; BLAST; mpiBLAST; desktop grid; UnaGrid; LONI Pipeline

Automated Identification of Micro-Embolic Events Using Auditory Perception Features Extracted from Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients
Lingke Fan and David Evans
keywords: ultrasound; automated emoblus identification; TCD; MFCC application; directional analysis, auditory perceptul evaluation; artifact rejection, knowledge-based systems

SimGenex: A System for Concisely Specifying Simulation of Biological Processes and Experimentation
Anyela Camargo and Jan T. Kim
keywords: Gene Regulatory Networks; Simulation; Systems Biology

Automated Image Processing for the Analysis of DNA Repair Dynamics
Thorsten Rieß, Christian Dietz, Martin Tomas, Elisa Ferrando-May, and Dorit Merhof
keywords: automated intensity measurement; DNA repair; fluorescence microscopy

Quantifying the Accuracy of C. elegans Image Analysis
Jacob Graves and Roger Mailler
keywords: Image analysis; Feature extraction; Caenorhabditis elegans; Simulation

Automated Segmentation and Measurement for Cancer Classification of HER2/neu Status in Breast Carcinomas
Lee Sing Cheong, Angela Jean, Tsu Soo Tan, Waiming Kong, and Soo Yong Tan
keywords: HER2; neu; breast carcinoma; automated segmentation and measurement; cancer classification.

Incorporating Protein Sequence and Evolutionary Information in a Structural Pattern Matching Approach for Contact Maps
Hazem R. Ahmed and Janice I. Glasgow
keywords: protein structure prediction; protien contact maps; structural pattern matching; evolutionary information; harrell-davis quantiles.

Methodology to explore coexpression in microarray data
Bertrand De Meulder, Eric Bareke, Michael Pierre, Sophie Depiereux, and Eric Depiereux
keywords: Co-expression ; Microarray; Methodology

System Biology on Mitochondrion Genomes
Michael Sadovsky, Natalia Zaitseva, and Yulia Putintzeva
keywords: frequency, entropy, mutual entropy, order, phylogeny, elastic map, knowledge retrieval

Computational Modeling of Robust Figure/Ground Separation
Marc Ebner and Stuart Hameroff
keywords: visual perception; spiking neurons; lateral-coupling; gap-junctions; gamma-oscillations

Anacê: Phylogenetic Trees Drawing Web Service
Hélio Moura and Gerardo Viana
keywords: computational biology; phylogenetic trees; Web service

Computation of Dynamic Channels in Proteins
Petr Benes, Petr Medek, Ondrej Strnad, and Jiri Sochor
keywords: dynamic channel; molecule; trajectory

EnzymeTracker: A Web-based System for Sample Tracking with Customizable Reports
Thomas Triplet, Justin Powlowski, Adrian Tsang, and Gregory Butler
keywords: laboratory information management; enzyme; data warehousing; data integration

In silico Identification of Drug Targets in Methicillin/Multidrug-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Nichole Haag, Kimberly Velk, and Chun Wu
keywords: Methicillin/multidrug-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), essential genes, Database of Essential Genes (DEG), drug targets, central metabolism

On the Distribution of the Distances Between Pairs of Leaves in Phylogenetic Trees
Arnau Mir and Francesc Rosselló
keywords: phylogenetic trees; statistical distribution

De Novo Draft Genome Assembly Using Fuzzy K-mers
John Healy and Desmond Chambers
keywords: genome assembly, anchoring, fuzzy k-mers, fuzzy hash maps

Internal force field in proteins
Damian Marchewka and Irena Roterman
keywords: Internal force field; External force field; Interactions in protein; 3-D Gauss function; Information theory

Structural Characterization of the Rieske Oxygenase Complex from Burkholderia fungorum DBT1 Strain: Insights from bioinformatics
Stefano Piccoli, Silvia Lampis, Giovanni Vallini, and Alejandro Giorgetti
keywords: biocomputing; Burkholderia fungorum DBT1; dibenzothiophene; modeling; PAHs

UMPIRE: Ultimate Microarray Prediction, Inference, and Reality Engine
Jiexin Zhang and Kevin Coombes
keywords: gene expression; microarray; simulation; class prediction; multi-hit theory of cancer