Bioinformatics Research and Development, First International Conference, BIRD 2007, Berlin, Germany, March 12-14, 2007, Proceedings

Session 1: Microarray and Systems Biology I (Networks).- Bayesian Inference of Gene Regulatory Networks Using Gene Expression Time Series Data.- Biological Network Inference Using Redundancy Analysis.- A Novel Graph Optimisation Algorithm for the Extraction of Gene Regulatory Networks from Temporal Microarray Data.- Session 2: Microarray and Systems Biology II.- Analysing Periodic Phenomena by Circular PCA.- Identification of Cold-Induced Genes in Cereal Crops and Arabidopsis Through Comparative Analysis of Multiple EST Sets.- Mining Spatial Gene Expression Data for Association Rules.- Session 3: Medical, SNPs, Genomics I.- Individualized Predictions of Survival Time Distributions from Gene Expression Data Using a Bayesian MCMC Approach.- Comparing Logic Regression Based Methods for Identifying SNP Interactions.- Stochastical Analysis of Finite Point Sampling of 3D Chromatin Fiber in Interphase Cell Nuclei.- Session 4: Medical, SNPs, Genomics II.- Structural Screening of HIV-1 Protease/Inhibitor Docking by Non-parametric Binomial Distribution Test.- satDNA Analyzer 1.2 as a Valuable Computing Tool for Evolutionary Analysis of Satellite-DNA Families: Revisiting Y-Linked Satellite-DNA Sequences of Rumex (Polygonaceae).- A Soft Hierarchical Algorithm for the Clustering of Multiple Bioactive Chemical Compounds.- Session 5: Systems Biology.- A Novel Method for Flux Distribution Computation in Metabolic Networks.- Inverse Bifurcation Analysis of a Model for the Mammalian G 1/S Regulatory Module.- Weighted Cohesiveness for Identification of Functional Modules and Their Interconnectivity.- Modelling and Simulation of the Genetic Phenomena of Additivity and Dominance via Gene Networks of Parallel Aggregation Processes.- Session 6: Sequence Analysis I (Coding).- Protein Remote Homology Detection Based on Binary Profiles.- Biological Sequences Encoding for Supervised Classification.- Fast Search Algorithms for Position Specific Scoring Matrices.- Session 7: Sequence Analysis II.- A Markovian Approach for the Segmentation of Chimpanzee Genome.- Synthetic Protein Sequence Oversampling Method for Classification and Remote Homology Detection in Imbalanced Protein Data.- Stem Kernels for RNA Sequence Analyses.- Prediction of Structurally-Determined Coiled-Coil Domains with Hidden Markov Models.- Session 8: Proteomics I.- Patch Prediction of Protein Interaction Sites: Validation of a Scoring Function for an Online Server.- Statistical Inference on Distinct RNA Stem-Loops in Genomic Sequences.- Interpretation of Protein Subcellular Location Patterns in 3D Images Across Cell Types and Resolutions.- Session 9: Proteomics II (Measurements).- Bayesian Inference for 2D Gel Electrophoresis Image Analysis.- SimShiftDB: Chemical-Shift-Based Homology Modeling.- Annotation of LC/ESI-MS Mass Signals.- Session 10: Proteomics III (Structure).- Stochastic Protein Folding Simulation in the d-Dimensional HP-Model.- Enhancing Protein Disorder Detection by Refined Secondary Structure Prediction.- Joining Softassign and Dynamic Programming for the Contact Map Overlap Problem.- Session 11: Databases, Web and Text Analysis.- An Evaluation of Text Retrieval Methods for Similarity Search of Multi-dimensional NMR-Spectra.- Ontology-Based MEDLINE Document Classification.- Integrating Mutations Data of the TP53 Human Gene in the Bioinformatics Network Environment.- Efficient and Scalable Indexing Techniques for Biological Sequence Data.