Welcome Remark

Opening Session

Lecture 1

“Rapid evolution of mRNA-like non-coding RNAs”

Peter Stadler

(University of Leipzig - Germany)

Technical Session 1 - Applications

“Identifying Significant Features in HIV Sequence to Predict Patients' Response to Therapies”

Samuel Oliveira, Luiz Henrique Merschmann, Leoneide Bouillet
(Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto)

“MicroRNA or Not MicroRNA?”

David Langenberger, Sebastian Bartschat, Jana Hertel, Steve Hoffmann, Hakim Tafer, Peter Stadler

(University of Leipzig - Germany)

“Comparing Correlation Coefficients as Dissimilarity Measures for Cancer Classification in Gene Expression Data”

Pablo Jaskowiak, Ricardo Campello

(University of São Paulo – USP - Brazil)

"Efficiently Querying Protein Sequences with the Proteinus Index"

Felipe Alves da Louza, Cristina Ciferri(University of São Paulo - USP),
Ricardo Ciferri(Federal University of São Carlos)

Lecture 2

“Exploring the Schistosoma mansoni transcriptome using RNA-seq”

Sergio Verjovski

(University of São Paulo – USP - Brazil)

Technical Session 2 - Genome Rearrangements

“Analysis and Implementation of Sorting by Transpositions using Permutation Trees”

Marcelo Lopes (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ - Brazil), Marilia Braga (INMETRO - Brazil), Celina Figueiredo (UFRJ), Rodrigo Hausen (University of São Paulo - USP), Luis Kowada (Fluminense Federal University – UFF - Brazil)

“Constraint Logic Programming Models for Reversal and Transposition Distance Problem”

Victor Iizuka, Zanoni Dias

(University of Campinas - Brazil)

“On the Distribution of Rearrangement Distances”

Gustavo Galvão, Zanoni Dias

(University of Campinas - Brazil)

“A Flexible Framework for Computing Rearrangement Distance of Every Permutation in the Symmetric Group”

Gustavo Galvão, Zanoni Dias

(University of Campinas - Brazil)

Lecture 3

“Using Inversion Signatures to generate draft genome sequence scaffolds”

João Carlos Setubal

(Virgínia Bioinformatics Institute - USA)

Technical Session 3 - Machine Learning

“Hierarchical Multilabel Protein Function Prediction Using Local Neural Networks”

Ricardo Cerri, Andréonce de Leon F de Carvalho

(University of São Paulo, ICMC-USP – São Carlos - Brazil)

“Improved gene expression clustering with the parameter-free PKNNG metric”

Ariel Baya, Pablo Granitto

(CIFASIS – Conicet – UNR – UPCM - Argentina)

"A Structured-Population Genetic Algorithm for the 3-D Protein Structure Prediction Problem"

William Gonçalves, Marcio Dorn, Luciana Buriol, Luis Cunha Lamb
(Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS)

“Reducing the number of attributes in a non-coding identifier based on Support Vector Machine”

Tulio Silva, Maria Emilia Walter, Pedro de Azevedo Berger,

Marcelo Brigido, Victor Taira

(University of Brasília – UnB - Brazil)

Poster Presentation Session

EBB + BSB

Meeting of the Special Committee of Computational Biology - SBC

Confraternization

Technical Session 4 - Gene Prediction and Algorithms

"Gene Prediction by Multiple Spliced Alignment"

Rodrigo Kishi, Ronaldo Santos, Said Adi
(Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul - UFMS)

“A New Algorithm for Sparse Suffix Trees”

Gustavo Sacomoto(Université Lyon, France), Alair Pereira do Lago

(University of São Paulo – USP - Brazil)

“Paired Segments Alignment and its Application to the Gene Prediction Task”

Ronaldo Santos, Rodrigo Kishi, Said Adi

(Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul – UFMS - Brazil)

Lecture 4

“A Bibliomics Approach to Plausible Bio-marker Discovery”Mathew Palakal

(Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis - USA)