Special issue: Exploration and exploitation of data in bioinformatics

International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications 8(1/2) 2012

Papers presented at the 7th Annual Biotechnology andBioinformatics Symposium (BIOT-2010) held in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA, 14-15 October 2010.

• A new algorithm for quantifying binding site pattern similarity with applications for Next Generation Sequencing
• An effective graph-based clustering technique to identify coherent patterns from gene expression data
• Large margin classifiers and Random Forests for integrated biological prediction
• Combining gene expression and interaction network data to improve kidney lesion score prediction
• Detecting molecular selection on single amino acid replacements
• Computational analysis of adaptive antigenic mutations of the human influenza hemagglutinin for vaccine strain selection
• Evolution of bacterial ribosomal protein L1
• Application of nanotechnology in cancer: a review
• New encoded single-indicator sequences based on physico-chemical parameters for efficient exon identification
• Discovering best candidates for Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) by in-silico techniques and tools