Speakers

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Confirmed Regional Keynote Speakers

  • Maricel Kann (University of Maryland, USA)
  • Christian Probst (Instituto Carlos Chagas-Fiocruz, Brazil)
  • Francisco Melo Ledermann (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
  • Emanuel Maltempi de Souza (Universidad Federal de Paraná, Brazil)
  • Sandro Jose de Souza (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Brazil)
  • Fernán Aguero (Universidad Nacional de General San Martín, Argentina)
  • Alejandro Colman-Lerner (Universidad de Buenos Aires-CONICET, Argentina)

 

Confirmed International Keynote Speakers

  • Jane Loveland (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK)
  • Daniel Hartl (Harvard University, USA)
  • Winston Hide (Harvard School of Public Health, USA)
  • Michal Linial (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
  • Marc Marti-Renom (Príncipe Felipe Research Center, Spain)
  • Eduardo Rocha (Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6; and Institut Pasteur, France)
  • David S. Roos (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
  • Burkhard Rost (Columbia University, USA)
  • Terry Speed (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia; and University of California Berkeley, USA)



Schedule

Saturday, March 13, 2010

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Welcome remarks
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Opening Keynote: Burkhard Rost Evolution teaches protein prediction

Session I: New Sequencing Technologies: Applications and Impact
Discussion Leader: Christian Probst, Instituto Carlos Chagas - Fiocruz, Curitiba, Brazil

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM International Keynote: Terry Speed Analysis of ChIP-Seq data
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM Regional Keynote: Christian Probst Omics approaches for the study of Chagas Disease

 

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM coffee break

 

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Daniela Pavoni Deep sequencing of Trypanosoma cruzi life cycle transcriptome
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM Victor Jin A bin-based enrichment level threshold (BELT) algorithm to analyze ChIP-seq data
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM Michael Sammeth Simulation of Digital Northerns and RNA-Seq Samba
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM Michael Tartakovsky A centralized and scalable infrastructure approach to support next-generation sequencing at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

 

1:15 PM - 2:45 PM Lunch Break

 

Session II: Protein Structure and Function
Discussion Leader: Francisco Melo Ledermann, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

2:45 PM - 3:30 PM International Keynote: Marc Marti-Renom Comparative docking for predicting molecular targets of known drugs
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM Regional Keynote: Francisco Melo Ledermann Knowledge-based potentials for the characterization and prediction of protein binding sites

 

4:15 PM - 4:45 PM coffee break

 

4:45 PM - 5:00 PM Alex Slater Structural comparison and classification of the catalytic domains in DNA polymerases
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM Jorge Fernandez New insights in oligopeptidases inhibition: Molecular dynamics studies of substrate/inhibitor accommodation
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM Nicolás Palopoli Quality assessment of protein structure models using evolutionary information
5:30 PM - 5:45 PM Cassiana Chassot Fülber Reconstruction of MHC alleles by cross modeling and structural assessment
5:45 PM - 6:00 PM Daniel Almonacid Classification of enzyme function according to similarities in reaction mechanisms and common substrate substructures

 

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Session III: Sequence Analysis, Comparative Genomics and Evolution
Discussion Leader: Maricel Kann, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA

 

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM International Keynote: Jane Loveland Providing a vertebrate reference geneset
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM Regional Keynote: Maricel Kann Coevolution of interacting proteins: What is behind the mirror tree?

 

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM coffee break

 

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Tiago Mendes Comparative proteome analysis of protozoan parasites: tandem repeat proteins and epitope predictions
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Andrzej Brodzik A combinatorial-analytic approach to single nucleotide polymorphism detection
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Agustina Olivera-Couto Bioinformatic insight into eisosomes' molecular function

 

11:45 AM - 1:30 PM Lunch Break

 

Session IV: Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics
Discussion Leader: Elena Fabiano, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Montevideo, Uruguay

 

1:30 PM - 2:15 PM International Keynote: Eduardo Rocha Uses for comparative (meta)genomics in evolutionary ecology
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM Regional Keynote: Emanuel de Souza Discovery of new hydrolytic enzymes by metagenomics

 

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM coffee break

 

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM Alejandro Reyes Metagenomic analysis of bacteriophage present in the gut microbiota of monozygotic twins and their mothers
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM Federico Rosconi Iron uptake systems in the grass endophyte Herbaspirillum seropedicae Z67: structure and transport of an NRPS-siderophore
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM Maria Cecilia Rodríguez Characterization and identification of hydrolytic enzymes of potential interest in biofuel production by using metagenomics approaches
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM Cecilia Callejas 16S rRNA gene diversity in cyanobacterial-bacterial mat consortia of King George Island, Maritime Antarctica

 

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Burkhard Rost ISCB Open Meeting

 

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Poster session even numbers

 

Monday, March 15, 2010:

Session V: Bioinformatics of Health and Disease in Latin America

Session Va: Computational Biomedicine
Discussion Leader: Sandro Jose de Souza, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Sao Paulo, Brazil

 

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM International Keynote: Winston Hide When peculiar gene expression makes the difference
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM Regional Keynote: Sandro de Souza Deciphering the human surfaceome

 

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM coffee break

 

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Esteban Czwan Theme-driven cancer survival analysis
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Ronnie Alves Gene Association Analysis of Gene Expression Data
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Ashwani Sharma Finding putative drug against H1N1 Virus (Influenza A virus) by computational virtual screening approach
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Tom Kelsey The dynamics of human ovarian reserve
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Veronika Stoka The lysosomal apoptosis signaling pathway is a complex biological network
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM Juan Jose Cifuentes Structural protein motifs that recognize damaged DNA

 

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch Break

 

Session Vb: Infectious Diseases and Drug Target Discovery
Discussion Leader: Fernán Aguero, Universidad Nacional de General San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM International Keynote: David S. Roos Designing & Mining (Pathogen) Genome Databases: From Genes to Drugs & Vaccines
2:45 PM - 3:30 PM Regional Keynote: Fernán Aguero The TDR Targets Database: identification and prioritization of drug targets for neglected diseases

 

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM coffee break

 

4:00 PM - 4:15 PM Axel Soto A new method for multi-objective selection of molecular descriptors for QSAR/QSPR
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM Adhemar Zerlotini Integration and use of Schistosoma mansoni genomic data towards the identification of candidate therapeutic targets
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM Guido Nuñez-Mujica The role of biosynthetic pathways as regulation mechanism of glycolysis in Trypanosoma brucei
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM Benjamin Woodcroft An Integrative Bioinformatic Predictor of Protein Sub-Cellular Localisation in Malaria

 

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Poster session odd numbers

 

8:30 PM Conference Banquet

 

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Session VI: Functional Genomics and Systems Biology
Discussion Leaders: Wim Degrave, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Alejandro Colman-Lerner, Universidad de Buenos Aires-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM International Keynote: Michal Linial Navigating the twilight zone: Exploring overlooked functions among cell modulators
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM Regional Keynote: Alejandro Colman-Lerner Signal anticipation in a GPCR pathway: single cell measurements of scaffold recruitment show rapid dose response alignment before receptor binding reaches equilibrium

 

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM coffee break

 

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM Christophe Lefèvre Comparative genomics of lactation
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM Priscila Grynberg Analysis of Trypanosoma cruzi gene expression in response to ionizing radiation using the DNA microarray technique
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Lucía Durrieu Quantitative study of mother-daughter asymmetry in Ace2 localization in yeast
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Miguel Ponce de Leon Calculating metabolic responses from the stoichiometric network and optimization principles
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Dietlind Gerloff Functional Genomic Data Visualisation for Biologist Users: Prototype Tools Enabling “Exploration-Style Analysis” of Malaria and Yeast Data

 

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM Closing Keynote: Daniel Hartl Natural History of the Malaria Parasite and its Genome
1:15 PM - 1:30 PM Closing Remarks

 

NOTE: Schedule subject to change.

 

 

Instructions for Authors

Oral presenters: All accepted talks have a total duration of 15 minutes. Please prepare a talk that is around 12 minutes long to leave 3 minutes for questions. To allow a quick and easy transition between speakers, a laptop computer will be at the podium, and all speakers should load their presentations in this computer during the coffee break preceding the session at which they will present. The computer will have the latest versions of PowerPoint and Adobe Reader software.

Poster presenters: There will be two poster sessions with a duration of 2 hours each. Authors of even numbered posters should be present by their posters on Sunday 14th March 5pm-7pm. Authors of odd numbered posters should be by their posters on Monday 15th March 5pm-7pm. See the Accepted Abstracts below to find out whether your poster has been assigned an even or an odd number). The poster boards at the exhibition park of the LATU will hold posters of up to 0.96m wide by 2.4m high (up to 37 inches wide by 94 inches high). Even numbered posters can be put up either on Satruday 14th or Sunday 15th, and should be taken down immediately following the poster session on Sunday 15th. Odd numbered posters have to be put up on Monday 16th, and should be removed by 1.30pm on Tuesday 17th.

 

 

Accepted Abstracts

New Sequencing Technologies: Applications and Impact

1

Deep sequencing of Trypanosoma cruzi life cycle transcriptome

Daniela Parada Pavoni, Christian Macagnan Probst, Rita de Cássia Pontello Rampazzo, Marco Aurélio Krieger.

2

A bin-based enrichment level threshold (BELT) algorithm to analyze ChIP-seq data

Xun Lan, Sankaran Kasiviswanathan, Jeff Apostolos, Brian A. Kennedy, Tim H.-M. Huang and Victor X. Jin

3

16S rRNA hypervariable tag pyrosequencing for the study of microbial diversity in a protected coastal lagoon (Laguna de Rocha, Uruguay)

Cecilia Alonso, Claudia Piccini

4

Simulation of Digital Northerns and RNA-Seq Samba

Michael Sammeth, Paolo Ribeca, Roderic Guigó

5

mRNA decay profiles in Trypanosoma cruzi obtained by deep sequencing

Eduardo Lemons Francisco, Daniela Parada Pavoni, Rita de Cássia Pontello Rampazzo, Marco Aurélio Krieger, Christian Macagnan Probst

6

A centralized and scalable infrastructure approach to support next-generation sequencing at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Nick Weber, Vivek Gopalan, Mariam Quiñones, Hugo Hernandez, Robert Reed, Kim Kassing, Yentram Huyen, Michael Tartakovsky

 

 

Protein Structure and Function

7

A Study of Hydrophobic Effect on the Protein Folding Using Monte Carlo in 2D Lattice and Cubic lattice

Luis Scott, Pierre Tisseur, Adriano Faria

8

Using genetic algorithms and rotamer library to investigate protein-ligand docking

Luis Scott, Angelica Lima, Eric Phillot

9

Applying data mining to investigate the protein folding and extract rules of formation of secondary structure

Luis Scott, Maria Barioni, Digo Estelle

10

Modelling and Evaluation of the Tridimensional Structure of E5, an Oncoprotein from the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Types 06 and 16

Nilson Nicolau Junior, Silvana Giuliatti

11

In silico screening for Phospholipase A2 of Apis Mellifera with Fragment Library

Daniel M. M. Jorge, Vinicius B. da Silva, Carlos H. T. P. Silva, Andreimar M. Soares, Silvana Giuliatti

12

Homology relationship based on the amino acid properties

Verónica Alvarez and Luis Diambra

13

Structural comparison and classification of the catalytic domains in DNA polymerases

Alex W. Slater and Francisco Melo

14

New insights in oligopeptidases inhibition: molecular dynamics studies of substrate/inhibitor accommodation

Jorge H. Fernandez

15

A simple solution to undercome pitfalls of structural alignment methods in the classification of protein structures where high sequence divergence exists

Javier Castellanos, Alex W. Slater and Francisco Melo F.

16

PDIdb: a novel database containing the three-dimensional interfaces of protein-DNA complexes

Tomas Norambuena and Francisco Melo

17

Classification of enzyme function according to similarities in reaction mechanisms and common substrate substructures

Daniel E. Almonacid, Patricia C. Babbitt

18

Reconstruction of MHC alleles by cross modeling and structural assessment

Cassiana Fülber, Samuel Cibulski, Dinler Antunes, Maurício Rigo, José Chies, Marialva Sinigaglia, Gustavo Vieira

19

A new approach to fast calculation of Atomic Contact Energy for protein-protein interaction prediction

Cristian Sebastian Rocha, Luis Gómez Déniz

20

A simplified 1-D representation of electrostatic surface properties of modeled protein structures enables screening for evolutionary adaptive protein sites

Dietlind L. Gerloff, Shakir Ali, Marcos Woehrmann

21

Distribution and extension of protein conformational diversity

Ezequiel Iván Juritz, Nicolás Palopoli, Sebastián Fernández Alberti, Gustavo Parisi

22

Quality assessment of protein structure models using evolutionary information

Nicolas Palopoli, Ezequiel Juritz, Sebastián Fernandez Alberti, Diego Gomez Casati, Gustavo Parisi

23

Structural and Biological Analysis of Retromer Complex in the protozoan parasite Giardia lamblia

Silvana L Miras, María R Rivero, Andrea S Ropolo and María C Touz.

24

Role of heme distortion on oxygen affinity in heme proteins: the protoglobin case

Damián E. Bikiel, Flavio Forti, Leonardo Boechi, Marco Nardini, F. Javier Luque, Marcelo A. Martí, and Darío A. Estrin

25

A new method combining mutual information and conservation improves the detection of catalytic sites in proteins

Elin Teppa, Tomas Di Doménico, Morten Nielsen and Cristina Marino Buslje

26

Comparison of structural, dynamical and protein carbohydrate interaction properties of human galectins

Carlos M. A. Guardia, Diego F. Gauto, Santiago Di Lella, Gabriel A. Rabinovich, Marcelo A. Martí and Darío A. Estrin

 

 

Sequence Analysis, Comparative Genomics and Evolution

27

In silico testing of 23S rRNA primers for further use in cyanobacterial mats biodiversity studies

Cristian Coman, Adriana Bica, Bogdan Druga, Ana Nicoara and Nicolae Dragos

28

Protein Data Integration for Phylogenetic Data Mining

Humberto Razente, Antonio Braz, Luis Scott

29

Genomic Ecology: genes competing for a metabolic niche?

Marcos Catanho, Ana Carolina Ramos Guimarães, Thomas Dan Otto, Fernando Alvarez-Valin, Wim Degrave & Antonio Basílio de Miranda

30

A computational pipeline for diagnostic biomarker discovery in the human pathogen Trypanosoma cruzi

Santiago Carmona, Paula Sartor, Susana Leguizamón, Oscar Campetella and Fernán Agüero

31

Compositional Profile of the Human Genome at the Chromosome Level

Victor Sabbia, Hector Romero, Hector Musto, Hugo Naya

32

Analogous enzymes inside the Tritryps genomes

Ana Carolina Ramos Guimarães, Wim Maurits Degrave, Antonio Basílio de Miranda

33

Comparative microbial genomics in Pasteurellaceae family using second generation sequencing

Isabelle da Piedade, Timothy J Johnson, Anders M Bojesen

34

The Genome Comparison Project and the Protein World Database

Thomas Dan Otto, Marcos Catanho, Cristian Tristão, Márcia Bezerra, Renan Mathias Fernandes, Guilherme Steinberger Elias, Alexandre Capeletto Scaglia, Bill Bovermann, Viktors Berstis, Sergio Lifschitz, Antonio Basílio de Miranda & Wim Degrave

35

Searching for signals in the Tritryps genomes

Pablo Smircich, Gustavo Cerqueira, Najib El-Sayed, Beatriz Garat

36

Comparative proteome analysis of protozoan parasites: tandem repeat proteins and epitope predictions

Tiago Mendes, Frascisco Lobo, Leandro Freitas, Tiago Rodrigues, Daniella Bartholomeu

37

Codon usage analysis in Enterobacteriaceae: towards the detection of ancestral optimal triplets

Juan Baraibar, Andrés Iriarte, Héctor Romero, Héctor Musto

38

Selection to less thymine dimmers content in the DNA of resistant UV bacteria and archaea

Jorge Bresciano

39

Sequence analysis of class 1 integron’s integrase gene and the associated attI1 recombination site

María Paula Quiroga, Maximiliano Nardelli, María Soledad Ramírez, Daniela Centrón

40

Lifestyle, gene repertory and base composition bias in spirochetes

Natalia Rego, Martín Graña, Guillermo Lamolle, Fernando Alvarez-Valin, Hugo Naya

41

An easy way to incorporate phylogenetic uncertainty in the comparative model

Lucía Spangenberg, Natalia Rego, Hector Romero, Hugo Naya

42

Integrated in silico-wet biology approach for improving the annotation of Babesia bigemina perforin family

Romina Petrigh, Natalia Rego, Beatriz Valentini, Ignacio Echaide, Hugo Naya, Marisa Farber

43

A Combinatorial-Analytic Approach to Indel and Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Detection

Andrzej K. Brodzik

44

Molecular Evolution and Functional Divergence of Alcohol Dehydrogenases in Animals, Fungi and Plants

Thompson, C.E.; Freitas, L.B.; Salzano, F.M.

45

Discovery of a new conserved tandem motif upstream of outer membrane hemin transporters in alpha and beta-proteobacteria

Uriel Koziol, Vanesa Amarelle, Federico Rosconi, Francisco Noya, Mark R. O´Brian and Elena Fabiano

46

Bioinformatic insight into eisosomes' molecular function

Agustina Olivera-Couto and Pablo S. Aguilar

47

Identifier (ID) elements inserted into non-coding regions of pol II-primary transcripts are not related to the regulation of tissue-specific gene expression in rat

Andrés Goldman, Evangelina González-López, Carlos A. Capoano and Adriana Geisinger

48

12D3 gene sequence conservation in Mexican isolates of Babesia bovis

Jocelin Perez, Javier Pérez, Patricia Vargas, Antonio Alvarez, Carmen Rojas, Julio V. Figueroa

49

Initial Babesia bigemina gene identification by Expressed Sequence Tags analysis of the intraerythrocytic stage

Javier Perez, Patricia Vargas, Antonio Alvarez, Carmen Rojas, Julio V. Figueroa

 

 

Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics

50

A Hidden Markov Model that finds genes in Enterobacter DNA

Hebert HSG Soto

51

Metagenomic analysis of bacteriophage present in the gut microbiota of monozygotic twins and their mothers

Alejandro Reyes, Matthew Haynes, Forest Rohwer and Jeffrey Gordon

52

Iron uptake systems in the grass endophyte Herbaspirillum seropedicae Z67: structure and transport of an NRPS-siderophore

Federico Rosconi, Fabio Pedrosa, Emanuel de Souza and Elena Fabiano

53

Characterization and identification of hydrolytic enzymes of potential interest in biofuel production by using metagenomics approaches

Cecilia Rodriguez, Daniela Senatore, Vanesa Amarelle, Adriana Peri, Uriel Koziol, Elena Fabiano, and Francisco Noya

54

16S rRNA gene diversity in cyanobacterial-bacterial mat consortia of King George Island, Maritime Antarctica

Cecilia Callejas, Emanuel M. de Souza, and Silvia Batista

55

Tuning a phylogenetic classification for metagenomic samples based on homology, using simulated data

Emiliano Pereira, Héctor Romero, Héctor Musto

 

 

Computational Biomedicine

56

Gene Association Analysis of Gene Expression Data

Ronnie Alves, Domingo S. Rodriguez-Baena, Jesus S. Aguilar-Ruiz

57

Finding putative drug against H1N1 Virus (Influenza A virus) by computational virtual screening approach.

Ashwani Sharma, Ashish V. Tendulkar, Kuppili Raja Reddy, Pramod Wangikar

58

The dynamics of human ovarian reserve

T W Kelsey and W H B Wallace

59

The lysosomal apoptosis signaling pathway is a complex biological network

Veronika Stoka, Boris Turk, Vito Turk

60

Theme-driven cancer survival analysis

Esteban Czwan, Benedikt Brors, David Kipling

61

Structural protein motifs that recognize damaged DNA

Juan José Cifuentes and Francisco Melo

62

In silico studies of sesquiterpene lactones with inhibitory activity of Nuclear Factor kappa B

Luis Alejandro Castro, Sara Aguilera Morales, Federico Iribarne Restuccia, Margot Paulino Zunini

 

 

Infectious Diseases and Drug Target Discovery

63

Methodological developments based on genetic algorithm and normal mode analysis for performing protein-ligand and protein-protein docking simulations

Luis Scott, Perahia, David, Angelica Lima, Eric Phillot

64

Studies on the interactions of the enzyme InhA from Mycobacterium tuberculosis with small drug-like molecules

Ivani Pauli, Osmar Norberto de Souza, Luiz Augusto Basso, Diógenes Santiago Santos

65

A based learning machine web system for selection medicinal plants of the cerrado with antimicrobial properties

Saulo França Amui, Lucas Junqueira de Freitas Morel, Ana Maria Soares Pereira, Silvana Giuliatti

66

Applying Model Trees on Flexible-Receptor Docking Experiments to select promising protein receptor snapshots

Karina S. Machado, Ana T. Winck, Duncan D. A. Ruiz, Osmar Norberto de Souza

67

Designing and implementing chemoinformatic approaches in TDR Targets Database: linking genes to chemical compounds in tropical disease causing pathogens

María Paula Magariños, John Overington, Santiago Carmona, Dhanasekaran Shanmugam, Maria Doyle, Stuart Ralph, Greg Crowther, Christiane Hertz-Fowler, Solomon Nwaka, Matt Berriman, David Roos, Wes Van Voorhis, Fernán Agüero

68

A Context-Based Preprocessing on Flexible-Receptor Docking Data

Ana T. Winck, Karina S. Machado, Osmar Norberto de Souza, Duncan D. A. Ruiz

69

A new method for multi-objective selection of molecular descriptors for QSAR/QSPR

Axel J. Soto, Rocío L. Cecchini, Gustavo E. Vazquez, Ignacio Ponzoni

70

Alpha-Mannosyltransferase (pimA) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv: molecular modeling, virtual screening and molecular dynamic studies

Luís Fernando Saraiva Macedo Timmers, Luiz Augusto Basso, Diógenes Santiago Santos and Walter Filgueira de Azevedo Jr.

71

Integration and use of Schistosoma mansoni genomic data towards the identification of candidate therapeutic targets

Adhemar Zerlotini, Mark Heiges, Haiming Wang, Regina Coeli, Romulo Moraes, Anderson Dominitini, Jessica Kissinger, Guilherme Oliveira

72

A mapping method for linking chemical compounds to biological and physicochemical properties in drug discovery

Axel J. Soto, Marc Strickert, Gustavo E. Vazquez

73

The effect of InhA flexibility in docking simulations with ethionamide and triclosan

Elisangela M. L. Cohen, Karina S. Machado, Osmar Norberto de Souza

74

Peptide:MHC complexes reconstruction to infer binding affinity for the HLA-A*0201 allele

Maurício Menegatti Rigo, Dinler Amaral Antunes, Samuel Paulo Cibulski, Cassiana Chassot Fülber, Marialva Sinigaglia, José Artur Bogo Chies, Gustavo Fioravanti Vieira

75

The role of biosynthetic pathways as regulation mechanism of glycolysis in Trypanosoma brucei

Guido D. Núñez-Mujica, Antonio Parravano, Juan Luis Concepción

76

Prediction of B-cell epitopes of dengue virus non-structural 1 (NS1) protein involved in dengue serotype specificity

Luiza A. Castro-Jorge, Benedito A. L. Fonseca

77

An Integrative Bioinformatic Predictor of Protein Sub-Cellular Localisation in Malaria

Woodcroft BJ, Scanlon K, Doyle MA, Bailey J, Speed TP, Ralph SA

78

Identification of Novel Epitopes of the Ebola Virus Towards Rational Vaccine Design, Virus Evolution, and Protein Conservation.

Sophia Banton, Zvi Roth, Mirjana Pavlovic

79

A Study of Molecular Descriptor to Rank Candidate Ligands to Inhibit the InhA Receptor

Christian V. Quevedo, Ana T. Winck, Karina S. Machado, Osmar Norberto de Souza, Duncan D. A. Ruiz

80

Computational prediction of putative inhibitor against Thymidine kinase enzyme of Herpes simplex virus (HSV-1): An approach for Drug discovery

Ashwani Sharma, Ashish V. Tendulkar, Pramod Wangikar

 

 

Functional Genomics and Systems Biology

81

Phenotypic Effects of Network Rewiring in Regulatory Hierarchies

Nitin Bhardwaj, Philip M. Kim and Mark B. Gerstein

82

wAtPIN: Weighted Arabidopsis thaliana Protein Interaction Network

Marcelo M. Brandão, Luiza L. B. Dantas, Marcio C. Silva-Filho

83

Developmental aging in mammals: a systems biology analysis of epigenetic, development and senescence mechanisms

Bruno César Feltes, Joice de Faria Poloni, Diego Bonatto

84

Comparative genomics of lactation

Christophe Lefèvre, Karenza Menzies, Julie sharp, Kevin Nicholas

85

Modeling gene expression: noise and cooperativity

Pablo S. Gutierrez, Laura Calcagni, Diana Monteoliva and Luis Diambra

86

Analysis of Trypanosoma cruzi gene expression in response to ionizing radiation using the DNA microarray technique

Priscila Grynberg, Danielle G. Passos-Silva, Roberto Hirata Jr., Andrea M. Macedo, Eduardo J. Neves, Carlos R. Machado, Daniella C. Bartholomeu, Glória R. Franco

87

Differentially Expressed Genes in Microarray Analysis of Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease

Luiz Fernando M. Pignata, Nilson Nicolau Júnior, Flávia Sacilotto Donaires, Cristina M. Junta, Geraldo A. Passos, Silvana Giuliatti

88

A systems biology view about the role of nuclear melatonin receptors in neurogenesis

Joice de Faria Poloni, Bruno César Feltes, Diego Bonatto

89

Towards a taxonomy of centrality measures for gene expression data sets

Nicolás Pozo-Rojas, Mario Inostroza-Ponta, Pablo Moscato

90

Dose response alignment in a G protein coupled receptor pathway

Alan Bush, Ariel Chernomoretz, Rodrigo Laje, Alejandro Colman-Lerner

91

Gene Ontology guided clustering of gene expression profiles

Ariel Chernomoretz

92

Quantitative study of mother-daughter asymmetry in Ace2 localization in yeast

Lucía Durrieu, Gunnar Cedersund, Alan Bush y Alejandro Colman-Lerner

93

RNA-binding proteins interactome in Trypanosoma cruzi.

Henrique Preti, Alessandro Afornali, Newton de Medeiros Vidal, Christian Macagnan Probst, Marco Aurélio Krieger

94

Detecting Circadian Genes from Microarray

Carla Layana and Luis Diambra

95

Animated visualization of biological processes

Tatiana Cartagena de Oliveira, Marcelo Cezar Pinto

96

Computational analysis of the Schistosoma mansoni genome for the identification of vaccine candidates

Rômulo Moraes, Jerônimo Ruiz, Adhemar Zerlotini, Guilherme Oliveira

97

Sunflower Functional Genome Database, a curated unigene database to support functional diversity studies in sunflower

Fernandez, P., Blesa, D., Príncipi, D., Fusari, C., Soria, M., Reynares, C., Angelone, L., Delfino, S., Conesa, A., Dopazo, J., Tapia, E., Heinz, R.A. and Paniego, N.

98

Cell-fate decisions in mating pheromone stimulated yeast. A systems biology study.

Ariel Chernomoretz, Luciana Bruno, Pablo Balenzuela, Rodrigo Laje, Rodrigo Baltanás, Elizabeth Kennedy, Alejandro Colman-Lerner

99

Calculating metabolic responses from the stoichiometric network and optimization principles

Miguel Ponce de Leon, Hector Cancela, Luis Acerenza

100

KinetoUTR: a tool for visualization and analyses of mRNA regulatory elements in kinetoplatids

Newton de Medeiros Vidal, Marco Aurélio Krieger, Christian Macagnan Probst

101

Understanding implications of tissue-specific codon usage in human

Tamara Fernández, Lucía Spangenberg, Ariel Chaparro, Natalia Rego, Mónica Marín, Hugo Naya

102

SPARC gene, identified in a multi-organism functional genomics approach, impairs wound healing in Drosophila melanogaster

Federico Prada, A. Chernomoretz, C. Alvarez-Fernandez, A. Llera, P. Wappner, E. Martín Blanco, O. Podhajcer

103

Functional Genomic Data Visualisation for Biologist Users: Prototype Tools Enabling "Exploration-Style Analysis" of Malaria and Yeast Data

Dietlind L. Gerloff, Joanna Sharman, Richard Orton