Volume 14 Supplement 6
Edited by Thiago M Venancio (Co-ordinating Editor), Andre Fujita, Ricardo Z Vencio, Paula Kuser-Falcao and Robson Francisco de Souza
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8th International Conference of the Brazilian Association for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (X-meeting 2012). Go to conference site.
Campinas, Brazil14-17 October 2012
Nuclear receptors (NRs) are transcription factors which bind small hormones, whose evolutionary history and the presence of different functional surfaces makes them an interesting target for a correlation base...
Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14(Suppl 6):S1
The study and analysis of gene expression measurements is the primary focus of functional genomics. Once expression data is available, biologists are faced with the task of extracting (new) knowledge associate...
Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14(Suppl 6):S2
The thymic epithelium is the major microenvironmental component of the thymus, the primary lymphoid organ responsible for the generation of T lymphocytes. Thymic epithelial cells (TEC) control intrathymic T ce...
Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14(Suppl 6):S3
Current immunological bioinformatic approaches focus on the prediction of allele-specific epitopes capable of triggering immunogenic activity. The prediction of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I e...
Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14(Suppl 6):S4
Lung cancer accounts for the highest number of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Early diagnosis significantly increases the disease-free survival rate and a large amount of effort has been expended in screenin...
Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14(Suppl 6):S5
Data preprocessing is a major step in data mining. In data preprocessing, several known techniques can be applied, or new ones developed, to improve data quality such that the mining results become more accura...
Citation: BMC Genomics 2013 14(Suppl 6):S6
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