Keynote speakers

Biostatistics

Free topics

Causality in Genomics

Bioinformatics

Free topics

Special Session: Spatial Problems in the Nucleus

Accepted papers

CIBB 2014 general call

Davide Chicco, Eleonora Ciceri and Marco Masseroli. Correlation of Gene Function Annotation Lists through Enhanced Spearman and Kendall Measures
Enrico Formenti, Christophe Papazian and Pierre-Alain Scribot. Additive flowers
Paola Galdi, Francesco Napolitano and Roberto Tagliaferri. The optimal number of clusters: automatic and iterative methods
Antonella Iuliano, Annalisa Occhipinti, Haouming Xu, Claudia Angelini, Italia De Feis and Pietro Liò. Network-based survival analysis methods for pathway detection in cancer
Francesco Masulli, Hassan Mahmoud, Stefano Rovetta and Giuseppe Russo. Exploiting Quantitative and Semantic Information for Characterizing Protein-Protein Interactions Networks
Promise Molale and Bhekisipho Twala. Towards Effective Fingerprint Prediction using Computational Intelligence Methods
Kumar Parijat Tripathi, Raffaele Cassandra, Daniela Evangelista and Mario Rosario Guarracino. Transcriptator: computational pipeline to annotate transcripts and assembled reads from RNA-Seq data
Ernst Wit, Luigi Augugliaro, Fentaw Abegaz and Javier Gonzalez. DgCox: a differential geometric approach for high-dimensional Cox proportional hazard models

Poster session

Adriana Birlutiu, Paul Bulzu, Irina Iereminciuc and Alexandru Floares. IDENTIFYING RELEVANT microRNAs IN BLADDER CANCER USING MULTI-TASK LEARNING
Eugenio Del Prete, Serena Dotolo, Anna Marabotti and Angelo Facchiano. Structural features statistical analysis of two protein families: relationships and PCA grouping
Nicoletta Dessì, Emanuele Pascariello and Barbara Pes. EVALUATING RELATEDNESS OF GENE SETS
Alessandro Di Stefano, Aurelio La Corte and Marialisa Scatà. Health Mining: a new data fusion and integration paradigm
Janneth Gonzalez, George Barreto and Ludis Morales. Computational approach to the interaction of neurotoxins and Kv1.3 channel
Pietro Hiram Guzzi, Giuseppe Agapito, Mario Cannataro and Marianna Milano. GO-WAR: Gene Ontology Based Weighted Association Rules Mining
Rodrigo Honorato and Paulo Oliveira. Protein-protein docking pipeline using a two-step algorithm with experimental validation
Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo, Donato Barbuzzi and Sebastiano Impedovo. A NEW TOOL FOR NEUROMUSCOLAR DISEASE PRE-DIAGNOSIS
Anna Korhonen and Pietro Lio. Improving Literature-Based Discovery with Text Mining
Giosuè Lo Bosco and Luca Pinello. A NEW FEATURE SELECTION STRATEGY FOR K-MERS SEQUENCE REPRESENTATION
Giuseppe Marano, Patrizia Boracchi and Elia Biganzoli. ESTIMATION OF A PIECEWISE EXPONENTIAL MODEL BY BAYESIAN P-SPLINES TECHNIQUES FOR PROGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT AND PREDICTION
Juan Mendivelso, Camilo Pino, Luis F Niño and Yoan Pinzon. Finding Regularities in Biological Sequences through δγ-Approximate Abelian Periods
Chung-Ming Ou and Chung-Jen Ou. AN IMMUNE MEMORY MODEL INSPIRED BY DYNAMICS of CLOSED IDIOTYPIC IMMUNE NETWORK
Daniele Pepe, Mario Grassi and Fernando Palluzzi. SEM Best Shortest Paths for the Characterization of Differentially Expressed Genes
Riccardo Rizzo, Antonino Fiannaca, Massimo La Rosa and Alfonso Urso. The General Regression Neural Network to Classify Barcode and mini-barcode DNA
Wilbert Sibanda and Philip Pretorius. Mixed level generalized minimum aberration fractional factorial design to determine and optimize the effect of demographic characteristics on HIV risk
Wessel van Wieringen and Carel Peeters. Ridge estimation of the inverse covariance matrix with application to the reconstruction of gene-gene interaction networks

Spatial Problems in the Nucleus

Fiona Hamey, Yoli Shavit, Christopher Town and Pietro Liò. A METHOD FOR AUTOMATED DETECTION OF FLUORESCENT PROBES IN FISH IMAGES

Computational Intelligence Methods for Drug Design

Aicha Boutorh, Naruemon Pratanwanich, Ahmed Guessoum and Pietro Liò. Rule-based Grammatical Evolution For Drug Repositioning
David Gfeller, Olivier Michielin and Vincent Zoete. Accurate small molecule target predictions combining 2D and 3D chemical similarity measures
Hongjian Li, Kwong-Sak Leung, Man-Hon Wong and Pedro Ballester. The importance of the regression model in the prediction of intermolecular binding using AutoDock Vina
Hongjian Li, Kwong-Sak Leung, Man-Hon Wong and Pedro Ballester. The impact of docked pose generation error on the accuracy of machine-learning scoring functions

Computational Biostatistics For Data Integration In Systems Biomedicine

Clelia Di Serio, Biasco Luca, Danilo Pellin and Vicard Paola. Exploiting NGS data from gene therapy treated patients to assess cell differentiation process: a graphical models approach
Leif Peterson, Yuande Tan, Francesco Marchetti, Sandhya Bhatnagar, Helen Budworth, Brandon Mannion, Serena Tseng, Kristen Roth, Matthew Coleman, Shan Wang, William Blakely, Antoine Snijders and Andrew Wyrobek. RadBioChip Development: Classification Analysis of Proteomic Gold Standard ELISA Markers of Radiation Exposure
Daniel Urda, Simon Chambers, Ian Jarman, Paulo Lisboa, Leonardo Franco and Jose Jerez. Use of q-values to improve a genetic algorithm to identify robust gene signatures
Veronica Vinciotti, Luigi Augugliaro, Antonio Abbruzzo and Ernst Wit. Robustness of dynamic gene regulatory networks in Neisseria

Large-Scale and HPC data analysis in bioinformatics: intelligent methods for computational, systems and synthetic biology

Marco Aldinucci, Andrea Bracciali, Nadia Pisanti and Massimo Torquati. Towards High-Performance Haplotype Assembly For Future Sequencing
Lars Ailo Bongo, Edvard Pedersen and Martin Ernstsen. Data-intensive computing infrastructure systems for unmodified biological data analysis pipelines
Andrea Calabria, Stefano Brasca, Giulio Spinozzi, Fabrizio Benedicenti, Erika Tenderini and Eugenio Montini. Density-based methods improve vector integration site identification quality
Manjusha Nair, Bipin Nair and Shyam Diwakar. LARGE-SCALE SIMULATIONS OF CEREBELLAR MICROCIRCUIT RELAYS USING SPIKING NEURON ON GPUS
Giulia Pasquale, Daniele D'Agostino and Ivan Merelli. A fine-grained CUDA implementation of the multi-objective evolutionary approach NSGA-II: potential impact for computational and systems biology applications
Saverio Ranciati, Cinzia Viroli and Ernst Wit. MODELLING MULTIPLE CHIP-SEQ EXPERIMENTS VIA A MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODEL WITH SPATIO-TEMPORAL DEPENDENCIES
Shima Soroushnia, Masoud Daneshtalab, Tapio Pahikkal and Juha Plosila. Parallel implementation of fuzzified Aho-Corasick algorithm on GPU
Fabio Tordini, Maurizio Drocco, Marco Aldinucci, Pietro Liò, Luciano Milanesi and Ivan Merelli. NuChart-II: a graph-based approach for the analysis and interpretation of Hi-C data

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