Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics [electronic resource] : 4th IAPR International Conference, PRIB 2009, Sheffield, UK, September 7-9, 2009, Proceedings /

Evolutionary Parameters in Sequence Families -- MProfiler: A Profile-Based Method for DNA Motif Discovery -- On Utilizing Optimal and Information Theoretic Syntactic Modeling for Peptide Classification -- Joint Tracking of Cell Morphology and Motion -- Multiclass Microarray Gene Expression Analysis Based on Mutual Dependency Models -- An Efficient Convex Nonnegative Network Component Analysis for Gene Regulatory Network Reconstruction -- Using Higher-Order Dynamic Bayesian Networks to Model Periodic Data from the Circadian Clock of Arabidopsis Thaliana -- Sequential Hierarchical Pattern Clustering -- Syntactic Pattern Recognition Using Finite Inductive Strings -- Evidence-Based Clustering of Reads and Taxonomic Analysis of Metagenomic Data -- Avoiding Spurious Feedback Loops in the Reconstruction of Gene Regulatory Networks with Dynamic Bayesian Networks -- Ligand Electron Density Shape Recognition Using 3D Zernike Descriptors -- Definition of Valid Proteomic Biomarkers: A Bayesian Solution -- Inferring Meta-covariates in Classification -- A Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm for Numerical Parameter Space Characterization of Reaction Diffusion Systems -- Knowledge-Guided Docking of WW Domain Proteins and Flexible Ligands -- Distinguishing Regional from Within-Codon Rate Heterogeneity in DNA Sequence Alignments -- A Hybrid Metaheuristic for Biclustering Based on Scatter Search and Genetic Algorithms -- Di-codon Usage for Gene Classification -- Counting Patterns in Degenerated Sequences -- Modelling Stem Cells Lineages with Markov Trees -- Bi-clustering of Gene Expression Data Using Conditional Entropy -- c-GAMMA:Comparative Genome Analysis of Molecular Markers -- Semi-supervised Prediction of Protein Interaction Sentences Exploiting Semantically Encoded Metrics -- Classification of Protein Interaction Sentences via Gaussian Processes -- MCMC Based Bayesian Inference for Modeling Gene Networks -- Efficient Optimal Multi-level Thresholding for Biofilm Image Segmentation -- A Pattern Classification Approach to DNA Microarray Image Segmentation -- Drugs and Drug-Like Compounds: Discriminating Approved Pharmaceuticals from Screening-Library Compounds -- Fast SCOP Classification of Structural Class and Fold Using Secondary Structure Mining in Distance Matrix -- Short Segment Frequency Equalization: A Simple and Effective Alternative Treatment of Background Models in Motif Discovery -- Bayesian Optimization Algorithm for the Non-unique Oligonucleotide Probe Selection Problem -- Microarray Time-Series Data Clustering via Multiple Alignment of Gene Expression Profiles -- Recursive Neural Networks for Undirected Graphs for Learning Molecular Endpoints -- Enhancing the Effectiveness of Fingerprint-Based Virtual Screening: Use of Turbo Similarity Searching and of Fragment Frequencies of Occurrence -- Patterns, Movement and Clinical Diagnosis of Abdominal Adhesions -- Class Prediction from Disparate Biological Data Sources Using an Iterative Multi-Kernel Algorithm -- Cross-Platform Analysis with Binarized Gene Expression Data.