Bioinformatics and Genome Research

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

  • Generation and Visualization of Patterns on Molecular Surfaces: Tools for the Understanding of Molecular Recognition Strategies

• DATABASE INTEGRATION/INTEROPERABILITY

  • Neural Networks for Molecular Sequence Classification and Database Organization

  • ProLink: Relational Integration of Data From Protein Sequence, Domain, Pattern and Structure Databases

  • A Software Framework to Assist in Knowledge Discovery from Macromolecular Structure Data

  • Database Retrieval System for Complicated Databases that Supports Database Integration

  • XBio: A Molecular Biology Database and Tool Workbench

• GENOME REARRANGEMENT

  • Algorithms for Genome Rearrangements: Herpesvirus Evolution as a Test Case

  • Measurements of Similarity of Synteny Groups and an Analysis of Genome Rearrangements in the Evolution of Mammals

• MOLECULAR INFORMATICS OF HIV

  • In Silico Study of HIV Tropism Switch

  • Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Human CD4 T-cell Depletion in hu-PBL-SCID Mice Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus

  • Molecular Epidemiology of HIV

  • Random Field Analysis of Tissue Sections in HIV Infection

• NUCLEIC ACID AND PROTEIN SEQUENCE RESEARCH

  • SEARCH: Locating and Identifying Genes and Intron-Exon Junctions in Large Genomic Sequences Using Parallel Computers

  • Taxonomy of Simple Amino Acid Sequences

  • Prediction of the Exon-Intron Structure and Multicriterial Optimization

• COMPUTATIONAL/THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO GENE REGULATION AND METABOLISM

  • Visualization and Animation of Metabolic Bottlenecks

  • Identification of Consensus Patterns in Unaligned DNA and Protein Sequences: a Large-Deviation Statistical Basis for Penalizing Gaps

  • Logical Analysis of Genetic Regulatory Networks

  • Automated Drawing of Metabolic Pathways

  • Gene Circuits for Eve Stripes: The Dynamics of Segment Determination in Drosophila

  • A Relational Database Model for Metabolic Information

  • Computational Methods for Complex Metabolic Systems: Representation of Multiple Levels of Detail

  • TRANSFAC Database as a Tool for the Recognition of Regulatory Genomic Sequences

• METHODS FOR UNDERSTANDING GENETIC DATA THROUGH GRAPHIC DISPLAYS

  • Querying a Genome Database Using Graphs

  • Gaining Information about Distant Homologies from Fasta Searches

• VISUALIZATION OF BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES

  • Techniques for Modeling Newly-Discovered Proteins

  • Simulating Simultaneous Growth of Nervecells – A Contribution to Parallel Problem Solving in Neurobiology

• TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR GENOME ANALYSES

  • Automated Integration of Genomic Physical Mapping Data via Parallel Simulated Annealing

  • Discrimination of Tyrosine and Serine/Threonine Kinase Sub-Families by Hidden Markov Models

  • A Tool for Identifying Nonrandom Clusters of Point Markers on DNA Sequences

  • Multiple Protein-Sequence Alignment Methods: How Well Do They Perform?

  • The Detection of Fuzzy Repetitive Patterns in Long Strings with Application to Microsatellite Mapping

  • Multiple Sequence Alignment Editor Featured by Constraint-Based Parallel Iterative Aligner

  • GenTool™: Integrated Sequence Analysis Tools for Distributed High Performance Platforms

• POSTERS

  • The Analysis of K-Tuple Distribution in the Eukaryotic Promoter Database Using the Winner-Take-All System

  • A Principal Component Analysis of Codon Usage Among Lambdoid Bacteriophage

  • On the Hypercube Structure of the Genetic Code

  • Rapid and Inexpensive Method for Genomic DNA Isolation from Mammalian Tissue

  • Recognition of Poly-A signals with Hamming Clustering

  • Homologous to EF-Tu/EF-1α Proteins: Structure Comparison and Phylogenetic Tree

  • Visualization of Codon Data Compression

  • Linguistic and Genetic Complexity

  • Statistical Analysis of Human DNA Sequences in the Vicinity of Poly(A) Signal

• PANELS

  • Panel Dicussion on Technology Transfer

• SUMMARY