Regular Papers: B225 "Sequence-Based Prediction of Protein Folding Rates Using Contacts, Secondary Structures and Support Vector Machines" Guan Ning Lin, Zheng Wang, Dong Xu, and Jianlin Cheng B227 "Bioinformatics pipeline for identification of binding motifs of flexible protein tethers" Jeffrey Ram and Yi Lu B233 "Extremal Optimization for the Contact Map Overlap Problem" Hengyun Lu, Genke Yang, and Lam Fat Yeung B242 "Biological Feature Incorporated Alignment for Cross Species Analysis on Carbohydrate Binding Modules" Wei-Yao Chou, Wei-I Chou, Shu-Chuan Lin, Rong-Yuan Huang, Ting-Ying Jiang, Hao-Teng Chang, Chien-Jung Chen, ChiaMao Wu, Chuan-Yi Tang, and Dah-Tsyr Chang B249 "Accurate Prediction of Stability Changes in Bacteriophage T4 Lysozyme Upon Single Amino Acid Replacements" Majid Masso, Tariq Alsheddi, and Iosif Vaisman B271 "High Throughput Short Read Alignment via Bi-directional BWT" T.W. Lam, Ruiqiang Li, Alan Tam, Simon Wong, Edward Wu, and S.M. Yiu B280 "Neural Grammar Networks in QSAR Chemistry" Eddie Ma and Stefan Kremer B404 "Predicting yeast synthetic lethal genetic interactions using SVM" Bo Li and Feng Luo B408 "Detection of Gene Orthology Based On Protein-Protein Interaction Networks" Fadi Towfic, M. Heather West Greenlee, and Vasant Honavar B409 "Evaluation of Gene Annotation Accuracy by Inferring Transcripts from RNA-Seq" Jeffrey Martin, Wenhan Zhu, Nicholas Bergman, and Mark Borodovsky B431 "An Algorithm for the Discovery of Phenotype Related Metabolic Pathways” Matthew C. Schmidt and Nagiza F. Samatova B235 "Modeling Protein Interaction Networks with Answer Set Programming" Timur Fayruzov, Martine De Cock, Chris Cornelis, and Dirk Vermeir B240 "Restructuring protein interaction networks to reveal structural hubs and functional organizations" Young-Rae Cho and Aidong Zhang B285 "High Functional Coherence in Protein Multicliques of Protein Interaction Networks" Qian Liu and Jinyan Li B322 "Exploratory Analysis of Protein Translation Regulatory Networks Using Hierarchical Random Graphs" Daniel Wu and Xiaohua Hu B350 "Qualitative Motif Detection in Gene Regulatory Networks" Zina Ibrahim, Ahmed Tawfik, and Alioune Ngom B351 "Towards Reliable Isoform Quantification using RNA-Seq Data" Brian Howard and Steffen Heber B375 "Identifying Gene Signatures from Cancer Progression Data Using Ordinal Analysis" Yoon Soo Pyon and Jing Li B382 "Side Effect Prediction using Cooperative Pathways" Mutsumi Fukuzaki, Mio Seki, Hisashi Kashima, and Jun Sese B385 "DASSO-MB: Detection of Epistatic Interactions in Genome-Wide Association Studies Using Markov Blankets" Bing Han, Meeyoung Park, and Xue-wen Chen B415 "Disease Classification based on the Activities of Interacting Molecular Modules with Condition-responsive Correlations" Sejoon Lee, Eunjung Lee, Kwanghyung Lee, and Doheon Lee B426 "A Multi-Task Feature Selection Filter for Microarray Classification" Liang Lan and Slobodan Vucetic B237 "Biofilm Image Segmentation Using Optimal Multi-Level Thresholding" Dario Rojas, Luis Rueda, Alioune Ngom, Homero Urrutia, and Gerardo Carcamo B245 "Model-based ECG Denoising Using Empirical Mode Decomposition" Yan Lu, Jingyu Yan, and Yeung Yam B304 "Extraction of Respiratory Rate from Impedance Signal Measured on Arm: A Portable Respiratory Rate Measurement Device" Sardar Ansari, Kayvan Najarian, Kevin Ward, and Mohamad Tiba B307 "Integrated Analysis of Pharmacokinetic, Clinical, and SNP Microarray Data using Projection onto the Most Interesting Statistical Evidence with Adaptive Permutation Testing" Stanley Pounds, Xueyuan Cao, Cheng Cheng, Jun Yang, Dario Campana, William Evans, Ching-Hon Pui, and Mary Relling B331 "Building a Standards-Based and Collaborative E-Prescribing Tool— MyRxPad" Stuart Nelson, Kelly Zeng, and John Kilbourne B345 "Discovering Protein Biomarkers by Correlating Functional Genomics Proteomics Results" Jieun Jeong and Jake Chen B358 "Towards identification of human disease phenotype-genotype association via a network module-based method" Qiang Jiang, Andreas Dress, and Ming Chen B368 "Multiagent Approach for Identifying Cancer Biomarkers" Reda Alhajj B379 "Feature Extraction for Pulse Waveform in Traditional Chinese Medicine by Hemodynamic Analysis" Haixia Yan, Yiqin Wang, Zhaorong Liu, Rui Guo, Fufeng Li, Fuying Run, and Yujian Hong B425 "Differential Prediction for Modeling Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer" Indranil Palit, Chandan Reddy, and Kendra Schwartz B429 "Identifying MiRNA and Imaging Features Associated with Metastasis of Lung Cancer to the Brain" Sara Nasser, Aarati Ranade, Shravan Sridharth, Lisa Haney, Ronald Korn, Michael Gotway, Glen Weiss, and Seungchan Kim B210 "A Fast, Semi-Automatic Brain Structure Segmentation Algorithm for Magnetic Resonance Imaging" Kevin Karsch, Qing He, and Ye Duan B252 "Pancreas Modeling from IVGTT Data Using A Deterministic Optimal Search Method" Dayu Lv and Bill Goodwine B253 "GemAffinity: A Scoring Function for Predicting Binding Affinity and Virtual Screening" Kai-Cheng Hsu, Yen-Fu Chen, and Jinn-Moon Yang B264 "A Novel Deterministic-Stochastic Crossover Method for Simulating Biochemical Networks" Amit Sabnis and Robert W. Harrison B287 "GAM: Genomic Assemblies Merger. A Graph Based Method to Integrate Different Assemblies" Alberto Casagrande, Cristian Del Fabbro, Simone Scalabrin, and Alberto Policriti B311 "Activated Germinal-Center B Cells Undergo Directed Migration" Mark O'Connor, Anja Hauser, Ann Haberman, and Steven Kleinstein B326 "In silico Correction of Normal Tissue Contamination in Analyzing Copy Number Changes" Guoqiang Yu, Bai Zhang, Jianfeng Xu, Ie-Ming Shih, and Yue Wang B334 "Determination of Major Lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Units" Minoo Aminian, Amina Shabbeer, and Kristin Bennett B348 "Towards A Better Ranking for Biomedical Information Retrieval Using Context" Xiaoshi Yin, Jimmy Huang, and Zhoujun Li B395 "Ensemble Learning Based on Active Example Selection Solving Imbalanced Data Problem in Biomedical Data" Min Su Lee, Sangyoon Oh, and Byoung-Tak Zhang B419 "Application of Kernel Functions for Accurate Similarity Search in Large chemical Databases" Xiaohong Wang, Aaron Smalter, Jun Huan, and Gerald Lushington Short Papers: B230 "Protein long disordered region prediction based on profile-level disorder propensities and position-specific scoring matrixes" Bin Liu, Lei Lin, Xiaolong Wang, Xuan Wang, and Yi Shen B260 "ChemAlign: Biologically Relevant Multiple Sequence Alignment Using Physicochemical Properties" Hyrum Carroll, Mark Clement, Quinn Snell, and David McClellan B315 "3D Rotation Invariant Features for the Characterization of Molecular Density Maps" Min Xu, Shihua Zhang, and Frank Alber B335 "Fast motif selection for biological sequences" Pavel Kuksa and Vladimir Pavlovic B341 "Inexact Local Alignment Search over Suffix Arrays" Mohammadreza Ghodsi and Mihai Pop B367 "Derivation of Transcriptional Regulatory Relationships by Partial Least Squares Regression" Reda Alhajj B383 "Statistical Methods for Detecting Latent Periodicity in Biological Sequences: Solving a Problem of Small-Size Samples" Maria Chaley, Nafisa Nazipova, Elena Teplukhina, Gayane Tyulbasheva, and Vladimir Kutyrkin B417 "Biological Network Inference by a New Hill Climbing Algorithm" DongChul Kim, Jean Gao, Chin-Rang Yang, and Xiaoyu Wang B229 "A 2-stage Approach for inferring Gene Regulatory Networks using Dynamic Bayesian Networks" Akther Shermin and Mehmet Orgun B376 "Microarray Biclustering with Crowding Based MOACO" Junwan Liu, Zhoujun Li, Xiaohua Hu, and Yiming Chen B398 "Using Gene Pair Combinations to Improve the Accuracy of the PAM Classifier" Pankaj Chopra, Jaewoo Kang, and Jinseung Lee B427 "The Analysis of Arabidopsis Thaliana Circadian Network Based on Nonstationary DBNs Approach with Flexible Time Lag Choosing Mechanism" Yi Jia and Jun Huan B203 "Evolution of the Probability of a MPM (Multiple Primary Malignancy) after a first Colon Tumor" Alberto Cavallo, Concetta Dodaro, and Andrea Renda B273 "AN EFFICIENT NOISE CANCELATION TECHNIQUE TO REMOVE NOISE FROM THE ECG SIGNAL USING NORMALIZED SIGNED REGRESSOR LMS ALGORITHM" Zia Ur Rahman Mohammad, Rafi Ahamed Shaik, and Rama Koti Reddy D B274 "Using Forearm Electromyograms to Clasify Hand Gestures" Gene Shuman B276 "A Device for Detecting and Counting Bites of Food Taken by a Person During Eating" Yujie Dong, Adam Hoover, and Eric Muth B289 "Nonlinear dynamical and entropic complexity measures as indicators of nonstationarities in short-term ECG signals" Rafal Ladysz B291 "A Flexible Policy Architecture for Medical Information Messaging" Edward Brown and Jamie Goodyear B336 "Clinical Attribute Network for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia" Abhisek Kundu, Hatice Gulcin Ozer, Tara Borlawsky, Kristin Circle, Kun Huang, and Philip Payne B357 "Hospital Admission Prediction Using Pre-hospital Variables" Jiexun Li, Lifan Guo, and Neal Handly B361 "Hybrid SVM for Multiclass Arrhythmia Classification" Aniruddha Joshi, Sharat Chandran, Valadi Jayaraman, and Bhaskar Kulkarni B391 "Traumatic Pelvic Injury Outcome Prediction by Extracting Features from Relevant Medical Records and X-ray Images" Wenan Chen, Rebecca Smith, Simina Vasilache, Kayvan Najarian, Kevin Ward, Charles Cockrell, and Jonathan Ha B232 "A Hybrid Method to Discover and Rank Cross-domain Associations" Yue Webster, Ranga Gudivada, Ernst Dow, and Mathew Palakal B238 "Biomedical Relationship Extraction from Literature Based on Bio-Semantic Token Subsequences" Jayasimha Reddy Katukuri, Ying Xie, and Vijay Raghavan B259 "A Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction Method Embracing Intra-Protein Domain Cohesion Information" Woo-Hyuk Jang, Suk Hoon Jung, Bo-ra Hyun, and Dong-Woo Han B269 "BioCLink: A Probabilistic Approach for Improving Genomics Search with Citation Links" Xiaoshi Yin, Jimmy Huang, and Zhoujun Li B317 "DNAjig: A new approach for building DNA nanostructures" Md. Muksitul Haque, Ananth Kalyanaraman, Amit Dhingra, Nehal Abu-Lail, and Kaori Graybeal B328 "Enhancing Pathway Based Analysis Using Different Weighting Schemes" Sook Ha, Inyoung Kim, and Jianhua Xuan B333 "Analyzing DNA Copy Number Changes Using Fused Margin Regression" Yuanjian Feng, Guoqiang Yu, Tian-Li Wang, Ie-Ming Shih, and Yue Wang B340 "Enabling Data Analysis on High-throughput Data in Large Data Depository Using Web-based Analysis Platform – A Case Study on Integrating QUEST with GenePattern in Epigenetics Research" Terry Camerlengo, Hatice Gulcin Ozer, Mingxiang Teng, Francisco Perez, Pearlly Yan, Lang Li, Jeffrey Parvin, Tim Huang, Tashin Kurc, Yunlong Liu, and Kun Huang B342 "Applying Feature Coupling Generalization for Protein-Protein Interaction Extraction" Yanpeng Li, Hongfei Lin, and Zhihao Yang B356 "Real-time Non-rigid Registration of Medical Images on a Cooperative Parallel Architecture" Yixun Liu, Andriy Fedorov, Ron Kikinis, and Nikos Chrisochoides B372 "A Generalized Multivariate Approach for Correlation-based Pattern Discovery from Replicated Molecular Profiling Data" Dongxiao Zhu, Guorong Xu, and Lipi Acharya B374 "GENE-GENE ASSOCIATION STUDY BETWEEN BREAST CANCER AND OSTEOPOROSIS USING TRANSMINER TEXT MINING SYSTEM" BI-HUA CHENG, Harsha Gopal Goud Vaka, and Snehasis Mukhopadhyay B389 "Bacterial Foraging Optimization Algorithm Integrating Tabu Search for Motif Discovery" Linlin Shao and Yuehui Chen B418 "Discovering Temporal Associations among Significant Changes in Gene Expression" Hashmat Rohian, Aijun An, Jiashu Zhao, and Jimmy Huang B421 "Bayesian Classifier for Anchored Protein Sorting Motif Discovery" Jianjun Hu and Fan Zhang