Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology [electronic resource] : Second Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2007, Angra dos Reis, Brazil, August 29-31, 2007. Proceedings / edited by Marie-France Sagot, Maria Emilia M. T. Walter.

Selected Articles -- Automating Molecular Docking with Explicit Receptor Flexibility Using Scientific Workflows -- Gene Set Enrichment Analysis Using Non-parametric Scores -- Comparison of Simple Encoding Schemes in GA’s for the Motif Finding Problem: Preliminary Results -- Multi-Objective Clustering Ensemble with Prior Knowledge -- Biological Sequence Comparison Application in Heterogeneous Environments with Dynamic Programming Algorithms -- New EST Trimming Procedure Applied to SUCEST Sequences -- A Method for Inferring Biological Functions Using Homologous Genes Among Three Genomes -- Validating Gene Clusterings by Selecting Informative Gene Ontology Terms with Mutual Information -- An Optimized Distance Function for Comparison of Protein Binding Sites -- Comparing RNA Structures: Towards an Intermediate Model Between the Edit and the Lapcs Problems -- Evolving Phylogenetic Trees: A Multiobjective Approach -- Comparing Several Approaches for Hierarchical Classification of Proteins with Decision Trees -- High Efficiency on Prediction of Translation Initiation Site (TIS) of RefSeq Sequences -- Extended Abstracts -- Outlining a Strategy for Screening Non-coding RNAs on a Transcriptome Through Support Vector Machines -- Mapping Contigs onto Reference Genomes -- Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Cruzipains 1 and 2 at Different Temperatures -- Genetic Algorithm for Finding Multiple Low Energy Conformations of Poly Alanine Sequences Under an Atomistic Protein Model -- Cellular Fingerprints: A Novel Concept for the Integration of Experimental Data and Compound-Target-Pathway Relations (Extended Abstract) -- Identification of the Putative Class 3 R Genes in Coffea arabica from CafEST Database.