2. BIRD 2008: Vienna, Austria
Mourad Elloumi, Josef Küng, Michal Linial, Robert F. Murphy, Kristan Schneider, Cristian Toma (Eds.): Bioinformatics Research and Development, Second International Conference, BIRD 2008, Vienna, Austria, July 7-9, 2008, Proceedings. Springer 2008 Communications in Computer and Information Science 13 ISBN 978-3-540-70598-7
Gene Expression/Regulation and Micro Arrays
Christian W. Martin, Tim W. Nattkemper: A Tree Index to Support Clustering Based Exploratory Data Analysis. 1-15
Ben Dalziel, Hui Yang, Rahul Singh, Matthew Gormley, Susan Fisher: XMAS: An Experiential Approach for Visualization, Analysis, and Exploration of Time Series Microarray Data. 16-31
Nguyen Phuong, Hoang Tuan: Clustering in a Fixed Manifold to Detect Groups of Genes with Similar Expression Patterns. 32-42
Sequence Analysis and Alignment I
Fei Xia, Yong Dou, Jiaqing Xu: Families of FPGA-Based Accelerators for BLAST Algorithm with Multi-seeds Detection and Parallel Extension. 43-57
Bin Liu, Lei Lin, Xiaolong Wang, Qiwen Dong, Xuan Wang: A Discriminative Method for Protein Remote Homology Detection Based on N-nary Profiles. 74-86
Sequence Analysis and Alignment II
Chen Na Lian, Mihail Halachev, Nematollaah Shiri: Searching for Supermaximal Repeats in Large DNA Sequences. 87-101
Protein and RNA Structure and Function I
Ulrike Mückstein, Hakim Tafer, Stephan H. F. Bernhart, Maribel Hernandez-Rosales, Jörg Vogel, Peter F. Stadler, Ivo L. Hofacker: Translational Control by RNA-RNA Interaction: Improved Computation of RNA-RNA Binding Thermodynamics. 114-127
Xiangchao Gan, Leonidas Kapsokalivas, Andreas Alexander Albrecht, Kathleen Steinhöfel: A Symmetry-Free Subspace for Ab initioProtein Folding Simulations. 128-139
Protein and RNA Structure and Function II
Timothy Lee, Rahul Singh: Comparative Analysis of Disulfide Bond Determination Using Computational-Predictive Methods and Mass Spectrometry-Based Algorithmic Approach. 140-153
Natalja Kurbatova, Juris Viksna: Exploration of Evolutionary Relations between Protein Structures. 154-166
Leonidas Kapsokalivas, Xiangchao Gan, Andreas Alexander Albrecht, Kathleen Steinhöfel: Two Local Search Methods for Protein Folding Simulation in the HP and the MJ Lattice Models. 167-179
Alireza Hadj Khodabakhshi, Ján Manuch, Arash Rafiey, Arvind Gupta: A Robust Class of Stable Proteins in the 2D HPC Model. 180-192
Machine Learning and Data Analysis

Pietro Liò, Matteo Brilli, Renato Fani: Topological Metrics in Blast Data Mining: Plasmid and Nitrogen-Fixing Proteins Case Studies. 207-220
Ramkishore Bhattacharyya, Balaram Bhattacharyya: Gene Expression Mining for Cohesive Pattern Discovery. 221-234
Databases and Data Integration I
Luís Pedro Coelho, Robert F. Murphy: Identifying Subcellular Locations from Images of Unknown Resolution. 235-242
Ingo H. C. Wassink, Han Rauwerda, Paul E. van der Vet, Timo M. Breit, Anton Nijholt: E-BioFlow: Different Perspectives on Scientific Workflows. 243-257
Dominic Mainz, Ingo Paulsen, Indra Mainz, Katrin Weller, Jochen Kohl, Arndt von Haeseler: Knowledge Acquisition Focused Cooperative Development of Bio-ontologies - A Case Study with BIO2Me. 258-272
Pathways, Networks, Systems Biology I
Kevin Kontos, Gianluca Bontempi: Nested q-Partial Graphs for Genetic Network Inference from "Small n, Large p" Microarray Data. 273-287
Esa Pitkänen, Ari Rantanen, Juho Rousu, Esko Ukkonen: A Computational Method for Reconstructing Gapless Metabolic Networks. 288-302
Hans Zantema, Stefan Wagemans, Dragan Bosnacki: Finding Frequent Subgraphs in Biological Networks Via Maximal Item Sets. 303-317
Pathways, Networks, Systems Biology II
Valeria Fionda, Luigi Palopoli, Simona Panni, Simona E. Rombo: Protein-Protein Interaction Network Querying by a "Focus and Zoom" Approach. 331-346
Jano I. van Hemert, Richard A. Baldock: Matching Spatial Regions with Combinations of Interacting Gene Expression Patterns. 347-361
Emanuel Schwarz, F. Markus Leweke, Sabine Bahn, Pietro Liò: Combining Molecular and Physiological Data of Complex Disorders. 362-376
Richard J. B. Dobson, Patricia B. Munroe, Charles A. Mein, Mark J. Caulfield, Mansoor A. S. Saqi: Combining Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI) Network and Sequence Attributes for Predicting Hypertension Related Proteins. 377-391
Databases and Data Integration II
Roziah Kambol, M. Faris Abtholuddin: Genome Structure and Characterisation of an Endogenous Retrovirus from the Zebrafish Genome Project Database. 392-403
Richard C. van der Wath, Elizabeth van der Wath, Antonio Carapelli, Francesco Nardi, Francesco Frati, Luciano Milanesi, Pietro Liò: Bayesian Phylogeny on Grid. 404-416
Workshop ALBIO
Petri Kalsi, Hannu Peltola, Jorma Tarhio: Comparison of Exact String Matching Algorithms for Biological Sequences. 417-426
Hatem Tahri, Mourad Elloumi: A New Approximation Algorithm for the Minimum Fragment Removal Problem. 427-435
Tomás Flouri, Costas S. Iliopoulos, Mohammad Sohel Rahman, Ladislav Vagner, Michal Vorácek: Indexing Factors in DNA/RNA Sequences. 436-445
Pavlos Antoniou, Costas S. Iliopoulos, Inuka Jayasekera, M. Sohel Rahman: Implementation of a Swap Matching Algorithm Using a Graph Theoretic Model. 446-455
Maria Federico, Nadia Pisanti: Suffix Tree Characterization of Maximal Motifs in Biological Sequences. 456-465
Mikhail A. Roytberg, Anna Gambin, Laurent Noé, Slawomir Lasota, Eugenia Furletova, Ewa Szczurek, Gregory Kucherov: Efficient Seeding Techniques for Protein Similarity Search. 466-478
Ernst Althaus, Stefan Canzar: LASA: A Tool for Non-heuristic Alignment of Multiple Sequences. 489-498
Jose Crispin Hernandez Hernandez, Béatrice Duval, Jin-Kao Hao: SVM-Based Local Search for Gene Selection and Classification of Microarray Data. 499-508
M. A. Lijo Anto, G. Gopakumar, Achuthsankar S. Nair, Indira Ghosh: GENFOCS - A Comparative Tool on Gene Finding with Sensitivity and Specificity. 509-516
Roger Marshall: Gene Machine© - A Hardware/Software Platform for Analyzing Genome Data. 517-527
Workshop PETRIN
Carlo Cattani: Complex Representation of DNA Sequences. 528-537

Paul E. Sterian, Octavian Marin, Valerica Ninulescu: Control of the Lasers Dynamics by Pumping Modulation for Biophotonics Applications. 556-562
Valerica Ninulescu, Vladua-Bogdan Nicolae, Andreea Sterian: Quantum Well Lasers for Medical Industry. 563-570
Stefan Pusca, Theodora Toma: Computational Model for the Study of the Fractal Parameters Characteristic for the Surface of Titanium Dental Implants. 571-580
Irina Codita, Stefan Pusca: PTF Model for Evaluating the Relationships between the VAC and Antimicrobial Resistance in Human Communities. 587-593



