Ricardo P. Jacobi, Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, Luis G.A. Carvalho, Carlos H. Llanos, Reiner W. HartensteinPublished September 30, 2005Genet. Mol. Res. 4 (3): 543-552 (2005) About the AuthorsRicardo P. Jacobi, Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, Luis G.A. Carvalho, Carlos H. Llanos, Reiner W. Hartenstein Corresponing authorR.P. JacobiEmail: rjacobi@cic.unb.br ABSTRACT Reconfigurable systolic arrays can be adapted to efficiently resolve a wide […]
Mutual information content of homologous DNA sequences
Helena Cristina G. Leitão, Luciana S. Pessôa, Jorge StolfiPublished September 30, 2005Genet. Mol. Res. 4 (3): 553-562 (2005) About the AuthorsHelena Cristina G. Leitão, Luciana S. Pessôa, Jorge Stolfi Corresponding authorH.C.G. LeitãoEmail: hcgl@ic.uff.br ABSTRACT The necessary information to reproduce and keep an organism is codified in acid nucleic molecules. Deepening the knowledge about how the […]
An I/O device driver for bioinformatics tools: the case for BLAST
Renato Campos Mauro, Sérgio LifschitzPublished September 30, 2005Genet. Mol. Res. 4 (3): 563-570 (2005) About the AuthorsRenato Campos Mauro, Sérgio Lifschitz Corresponding authorS. LifschitzEmail: sergio@inf.puc-rio.br ABSTRACT There are many bioinformatics tools that deal with input/ output (I/O) issues by using filing systems from the most common operating systems, such as Linux or MS Windows. However, […]
An agent-based system for re-annotation of genomes
Leonardo Vianna do Nascimento, Ana L.C. BazzanPublished September 30, 2005Genet. Mol. Res. 4 (3): 571-580 (2005) About the AuthorsLeonardo Vianna do Nascimento, Ana L.C. Bazzan Corresponding authorL.V. NascimentoEmail: lvnascimento@inf.ufrgs.br ABSTRACT Genome annotation projects can produce incorrect results if they are based on obsolete data or inappropriate models. We have developed an automatic re-annotation system that […]
Reconstruction of phylogenetic trees using the ant colony optimization paradigm
Mauricio Perretto, Heitor Silvério LopesPublished September 30, 2005Genet. Mol. Res. 4 (3): 581-589 (2005) About the AuthorsMauricio Perretto, Heitor Silvério Lopes Corresponding authorH.S. LopesEmail: hslopes@cpgei.cefetpr.br ABSTRACT We developed a new approach for the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees using ant colony optimization metaheuristics. A tree is constructed using a fully connected graph and the problem is […]
A distributed computation of Interpro Pfam,PROSITE and ProDom for protein annotation
Edward de O. Ribeiro, Gustavo G. Zerlotini, Irving R.M. Lopes, Victor B.R. Ribeiro, Alba C.M. Melo, Maria Emilia M.T. Walter, Marcos Mota Costa, BIOFOCO NetworkPublished September 30, 2005Genet. Mol. Res. 4 (3): 590-598 (2005) About the AuthorsEdward de O. Ribeiro, Gustavo G. Zerlotini, Irving R.M. Lopes, Victor B.R. Ribeiro, Alba C.M. Melo, Maria Emilia M.T. […]
Gene selection based on multi-class support vector machines and genetic algorithms
Bruno Feres de Souza, André Ponce de Leon F. de CarvalhoPublished September 30, 2005Genet. Mol. Res. 4 (3): 599-607 (2005) About the AuthorsBruno Feres de Souza, André Ponce de Leon F. de Carvalho Corresponding authorB.F. de SouzaEmail: bferes@icmc.usp.br ABSTRACT Microarrays are a new technology that allows biologists to better understand the interactions between diverse pathologic […]
Support vector machines for novel class detection in Bioinformatics
Eduardo J. Spinosa, André C.P.L.F. de CarvalhoPublished September 30, 2005Genet. Mol. Res. 4 (3): 608-615 (2005) About the AuthorsEduardo J. Spinosa, André C.P.L.F. de Carvalho Corresponding authorE.J. SpinosaEmail: ejspin@icmc.usp.br/ejspin@yahoo.com ABSTRACT Novelty detection techniques might be a promising way of dealing with high-dimensional classification problems in Bioinformatics. We present preliminary results of the use of a […]