Technical Session 1
- chair: Célia Ghedini Ralha

Full Papers

• New EST Trimming Procedure Applied to SUCEST Sequences
  Christian Baudet, Zanoni Dias
  University of Campinas
  (Brasil)

• A Method for Inferring Biological Functions Using Homologous Genes Among Three Genomes
  Daniel Arruda Santos Anjos, Gustavo Guerra Zerlotini, Guilherme Albuquerque Pinto, Maria Emilia M. T. Walter, Marcelo de Macedo Brígido, Guilherme Pimentel Telles, Carlos Juliando Viana, Nalvo Franco Almeida Jr.
  University of Brasilia
  University of São Paulo/São Carlos Federal
  University of Mato Grosso do Sul
  (Brasil)

• An Optimized Distance Function for Comparison of Protein Binding Sites
  Gábor Iván
  Eotvos Lorand University
  (Hungary)

Extended Abstracts

• Mapping Contigs onto Reference Genomes
  Nalvo Franco Almeida Jr., André Chastel, Said Adi, Carlos Juliano Viana, Marcel Yugo Nakazaki, Andrey Tamura, Luciana Hiratsuka,Leandro Brazil
  Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul
  University of São Paulo
  (Brasil)

• Cellular Fingerprints: a Novel Concept for the Integration of Experimental Data and Compound-target Relations
  Stefan Gunther, Stefanie Neumann, Jessica Ahmed, Robert Preissner
  Charité/Berlin University
  (Germany)

Technical Session 2
- chair: Alba Cristina M. Alves de Melo

Full Papers

• Comparison of Simple Encoding Schemes in GAs for the Motif Finding Problem: Preliminary Results
  Giovanna Martinez-Arellano, Carlos A. Brizuela
  Computer Sciences Department/CICESE Research Center
  (Mexico)

• Multi-objective Clustering Ensemble with Prior Knowledge
  Katti Faceli, André C. P. L. F. de Carvalho, Marcílio C. P. de Souto
  University of São Paulo/São Carlos Federal
  University of Rio Grande do Norte
  (Brasil)

• Comparing RNA Structures: Towards an Intermediate Model Between the EDIT and the LAPCS Problems
  Guillaume Blin, Guillaume Fertin, Gael Herry, Stephane Vialette
  University of Marne-la-Vallée
  University of Nantes
  University of Paris-Sud
  (France)

Extended Abstracts

• A Genetic Algorithm for Finding Multiple Low Energy Conformation of Poly Alanine Sequences under an Atomistic Protein
  Fábio Lima Custódio, Hélio J. C. Barbosa, Laurent E. Dardenne
  Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (LNCC)/MCT
  (Brasil)

• Outlining a Strategy for Screening Non-coding RNAs on a Transcriptome Through Support Vector Machines
  Roberto Ternes Arrial, Marcelo de Macedo Brígido, Roberto Togawa
  University of Brasilia
  Embrapa/Genetic Resources and Biotechnology
  (Brasil)

Technical Session 3
- chair: Natália Florêncio Martins

Full Papers

• High Efficiency on Prediction of Translation Initiation Site (TIS) of RefSeq Sequences
  Cristiane Neri Nobre, J. Miguel Ortega, Antonio Padua Braga
  Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais
  Federal University of Minas Gerais
  (Brasil)

• Gene Set Enrichment Analysis Using Non-parametric Scores
  Ariel E. Bayá, Mônica Larese, Pablo Granitto, Juan Carlos Gómez,Elizabeth Tapia
  Conicet - Instituto de Fisica Rosario
  Universidad Nacional de Rosario
  (Argentina)

• Validating Gene Clusterings by Selecting Informative Gene Ontology Terms with Mutual Information
  Ivan G. Costa, Marcílio C. P. de Souto, Alexander Schliep
  Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
  (Alemanha)
  Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
  (Brasil)

Extended Abstracts

• Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Cruzipains 1 and 2 at Different Temperatures
  Priscila V. S. Z. Capriles, Laurent E. Dardenne
  Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (LNCC)/MCT
  (Brasil)

• Identification of Putative Class 3 R Genes in Coffea arabica From CafEST-database
  Magnólia A. Campos, Flávia Barbosa Silva, Marília Santos Silva, Érika V. S. Albuquerque, Alexandre M. do Amaral, Cristiane C. Teixeira,Ângela Mehta, Maria Fátima Grossi de Sá
  Federal University of Lavras
  Embrapa/Cerrados
  Embrapa/Genetic Resources and Biotechnology
  (Brasil)

Technical Session 4
- chair: José Carlos Mombach

Full Papers

• Biological Sequence Comparison Application in Heterogeneous Environments with Dynamic Programming Algorithms
  Marcelo Nardelli Pinto Santana, Alba C. M. Alves de Melo
  University of Brasilia
  (Brasil)

• Comparing Several Approaches for Hierarchical Classification of Proteins with Decision Trees
  Eduardo Costa, Ana Carolina Lorena, André C. P. L. F. de Carvalho, Alex Freitas, Nicholas Holden
  University of São Paulo/São Carlos
  (Brasil)
  University of Kent
  (England)

• Evolving Phylogenetic Trees: a Multiobjective Approach
  Guilherme Palermo Coelho, Ana Estela Antunes Silva, Fernando Von Zuben
  State University of Campinas (Unicamp)
  Methodist University of Piracicaba (UNIMEP)
  (Brasil)

• Automating Molecular Docking with Explicit Receptor Flexibility Using Scientific Workflows
  Karina Machado, Evelyn Schroeder, Duncan Ruiz,Osmar Norberto de Souza
  Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS
  (Brasil)