Full Papers

• 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 - Sergio Lifschitz (PUC-Rio) &  Carlos Juliano Viana (Puc - Rio)
   
• 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)