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BSB2012 Proceedings (ISBN: 978-3-642-31926-6) are published in the Springer LNCS series - LNBI Subseries
Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, LNBI 7409

• Transposition Diameter and Lonely Permutations
  Luis Cunha (UFRJ), Luis Kowada (Universidade Federal Fluminense), Rodrigo Hausen (USP) & Celina Figueiredo (UFRJ)
   
• Extending the Algebraic Formalism for Genome Rearrangements to Include Linear Chromosomes
  Pedro Feijao (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) & João Meidanis (Instituto de Computação - Unicamp)
   
• Some Remarks On the Performance of Sorting by Transpositions Without Using Cycle Graph
  Gustavo Galvão (University of Campinas) & Zanoni Dias (University of Campinas)
  
  

• A comparison of three heuristic methods for solving the parsing problem for tandem repeats
  Atheer Matroud (Massey University), Christopher Tuffley (Massey University), David Bryant (University of Otago),  & Michael Hendy (University of Otago)
   
• RNA Folding Algorithms with G-Quadruplexes
  Ronny Lorenz (Theoretical Chemistry, Univ. of Vienna), Stephan H. Bernhart (Bioinformatics, Dept of Comp. Sci., Uni Leipzig), Fabian Externbrink (Bioinformatics, Dept of Comp. Sci., Uni Leipzig), Jing Qin (Bioinformatics, Dept of Comp. Sci., Uni Leipzig),Christian Hoener zu Siederdissen (Theoretical Chemistry, Univ. of Vienna) & Fabian Amman (Theoretical Chemistry, Univ. of Vienna)
   
• Molecular Dynamics for simulating the Protein Folding Process using the 3D AB off-lattice Model
  César Benítez (UTFPR), Heitor Lopes (Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná)
   
• A Bioconductor based workflow for Z-DNA region detection and biological inference
  Halian Vilela (Universidade de Brasília), Taina Raiol Alencar (University Of Brasilia), Maria Emilia Walter (University of Brasilia (UnB), Marcelo Brigido (Universidade de Brasília), Andrea Maranhao (UnB)
   
• A Probabilistic Model Checking Approach to Investigate the Palytoxin Effects on the Na+/K+-ATPase
  Fernando Braz (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Jáder Cruz (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais),  Alessandra Faria-Campos (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Sergio Campos (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
   
• RFMirTarget: a random forest classifier for Human miRNA target gene prediction
  Mariana Mendoza (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Guilherme C. da Fonseca (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Centro de Biotecnologia), Guilherme L. de Morais (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Centro de Biotecnologia),  Ronnie Alves (UFRGS), Ana Bazzan (UFRGS) & Rogerio Margis (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Centro de Biotecnologia)
   
• Prediction of Transcription Factor Binding Sites by Integrating DNase digestion and Histone Modification
  Eduardo Gusmão (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco),  Christoph Dieterich (Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology) & Ivan Gesteira Costa (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)
   
• Evaluating Correlation Coefficients for Clustering Gene Expression Profiles of Cancer
  Pablo Jaskowiak (University of São Paulo), Ricardo Campello (SCC / ICMC / USP) & Ivan Gesteira Costa (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)
   
• Associating Genotype Sequence Properties to Haplotype Inference Errors
  Rogério Rosa (Federal University of Pernambuco), Rafael Santos (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco) & Katia Guimarães (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)
   
• Design and Implementation of ProteinWorldDB
  
  Sérgio Lifschitz(PUC-Rio), Carlos Juliano M. Viana (PUC-Rio), Cristian Tristão (PUC-Rio), Marcos Catanho (FIOCRUZ), Wim M. Degrave (FIOCRUZ), Antonio Basilio de Miranda (FIOCRUZ), Márcia Bezerra (FIOCRUZ), Thomas D. Otto (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) 
   
• A Comparative Analysis of Public Ligand Databases based on Molecular Descriptors
  Ana Trindade Winck (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul), Christian Quevedo (PUCRS), Karina Machado (Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande), Osmar Norberto de Souza (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS) &  Duncan Ruiz (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do RS)
   
• Phylogenetic distance computation using CUDA
  Wellington Martins (Universidade Federal de Goiás), Thiago Rangel (Universidade Federal de Goiás), Divino Lucas (Unicamp), Elias Ferreira (Universidade Federal de Goiás), Edson Cáceres (UFMS)
   
• Exploring Molecular Evolution Reconstruction Using a Parallel Cloud-based Scientific Workflow
  Kary Ocaña (COPPE/UFRJ), Daniel de Oliveira (COPPE/UFRJ), Felipe Horta (POLI/UFRJ), Jonas Dias (COPPE/UFRJ), Eduardo Ogasawara (CEFET/RJ) & Marta Mattoso (COPPE/UFRJ)