2nd International Workshop on Practical Applications of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (IWPACBB 2008)

Chapter 1 Comparing Time Series through Event Clustering

Chapter 2 Visual Knowledge-Based Metaphors to Support the Analysis of Polysomnographic Recordings

Chapter 3 A Bio-inspired Proposal for Focus Attention While Preserving Information

Chapter 4 Modelling Fed-Batch Fermentation Processes: An Approach Based on Artificial Neural Networks

Chapter 5 New Principles and Adequate Control Methods for Insulin Dosage in Case of Diabetes

Chapter 6 A Framework for CBR Development and Experimentation with Application to Medical Diagnosis

Chapter 7 Identification of Relevant Knowledge for Characterizing the Melanoma Domain

Chapter 8 TAT-NIDS: An Immune-Based Anomaly Detection Architecture for Network Intrusion Detection

Chapter 9 Novel Computational Methods for Large Scale Genome Comparison

Chapter 10 Improving Literature Searches in Gene Expression Studies

Chapter 11 Implementing an Interactive Web-Based DAS Client

Chapter 12 Data Integration Issues in the Reconstruction of the Genome-Scale Metabolic Model of Zymomonas Mobillis

Chapter 13 Applying CBR Systems to Micro Array Data Classification

Chapter 14 Multiple-Microarray Analysis and Internet Gathering Information with Application for Aiding Medical Diagnosis in Cancer Research

Chapter 15 Evolutionary Techniques for Hierarchical Clustering Applied to Microarray Data

Chapter 16 Beds and Bits: The Challenge of Translational Bioinformatics

Chapter 17 A Matrix Factorization Classifier for Knowledge-Based Microarray Analysis

Chapter 18 Named Entity Recognition and Normalization: A Domain-Specific Language Approach

Chapter 19 BIORED - A Genetic Algorithm for Pattern Detection in Biosequences

Chapter 20 A Recursive Genetic Algorithm to Automatically Select Genes for Cancer Classification

Chapter 21 On Mining Protein Unfolding Simulation Data with Inductive Logic Programming

Chapter 22 A Knowledge Discovery Method for the Characterization of Protein Unfolding Processes

Chapter 23 Design of New Chemoinformatic Tools for the Analysis of Virtual Screening Studies: Application to Tubulin Inhibitors

Chapter 24 Multi-Objective Optimization of Biological Networks for Prediction of Intracellular Fluxes

Chapter 25 SimSearch: A New Variant of Dynamic Programming Based on Distance Series for Optimal and Near-Optimal Similarity Discovery in Biological Sequences

Chapter 26 Tuning Parameters of Evolutionary Algorithms Using ROC Analysis

Chapter 27 Speeding-Up ACO Implementation by Decreasing the Number of Heuristic Function Evaluations in Feature Selection Problem

Chapter 28 Global Sensitivity Analysis of a Biochemical Pathway Model

Chapter 29 Improving a Leaves Automatic Recognition Process Using PCA