Table of contents : Front Matter....Pages - Reversing Gene Erosion – Reconstructing Ancestral Bacterial Genomes from Gene-Content and Order Data....Pages 1-13 Reconstructing Ancestral Gene Orders Using Conserved Intervals....Pages 14-25 Sorting by Reversals with Common Intervals....Pages 26-37 A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for the Matching of Crossing Contact-Map Patterns....Pages 38-49 A 1.5-Approximation Algorithm for Sorting by Transpositions and Transreversals....Pages 50-61 Algorithms for Finding Maximal-Scoring Segment Sets....Pages 62-73 Gapped Local Similarity Search with Provable Guarantees....Pages 74-86 Monotone Scoring of Patterns with Mismatches....Pages 87-98 Suboptimal Local Alignments Across Multiple Scoring Schemes....Pages 99-110 A Faster Reliable Algorithm to Estimate the p-Value of the Multinomial llr Statistic....Pages 111-122 Adding Hidden Nodes to Gene Networks....Pages 123-134 Joint Analysis of DNA Copy Numbers and Gene Expression Levels....Pages 135-146 Searching for Regulatory Elements of Alternative Splicing Events Using Phylogenetic Footprinting....Pages 147-158 Supervised Learning-Aided Optimization of Expert-Driven Functional Protein Sequence Annotation....Pages 159-169 Multiple Vector Seeds for Protein Alignment....Pages 170-181 Solving the Protein Threading Problem by Lagrangian Relaxation....Pages 182-193 Protein-Protein Interfaces: Recognition of Similar Spatial and Chemical Organizations....Pages 194-205 ATDD: An Algorithmic Tool for Domain Discovery in Protein Sequences....Pages 206-217 Local Search Heuristic for Rigid Protein Docking....Pages 218-229 Sequence Database Compression for Peptide Identification from Tandem Mass Spectra....Pages 230-241 Linear Reduction for Haplotype Inference....Pages 242-253 A New Integer Programming Formulation for the Pure Parsimony Problem in Haplotype Analysis....Pages 254-265 Fast Hare: A Fast Heuristic for Single Individual SNP Haplotype Reconstruction....Pages 266-277 Approximation Algorithms for the Selection of Robust Tag SNPs....Pages 278-289 The Minisatellite Transformation Problem Revisited: A Run Length Encoded Approach....Pages 290-301 A Faster and More Space-Efficient Algorithm for Inferring Arc-Annotations of RNA Sequences Through Alignment....Pages 302-313 New Algorithms for Multiple DNA Sequence Alignment....Pages 314-325 Chaining Algorithms for Alignment of Draft Sequence....Pages 326-337 Translation Initiation Sites Prediction with Mixture Gaussian Models....Pages 338-349 Online Consensus and Agreement of Phylogenetic Trees....Pages 350-361 Relation of Residues in the Variable Region of 16S rDNA Sequences and Their Relevance to Genus-Specificity....Pages 362-373 Topological Rearrangements and Local Search Method for Tandem Duplication Trees....Pages 374-387 Phylogenetic Super-networks from Partial Trees....Pages 388-399 Genome Identification and Classification by Short Oligo Arrays....Pages 400-411 Novel Tree Edit Operations for RNA Secondary Structure Comparison....Pages 412-425 The Most Probable Labeling Problem in HMMs and Its Application to Bioinformatics....Pages 426-437 Integrating Sample-Driven and Pattern-Driven Approaches in Motif Finding....Pages 438-449 Finding Optimal Pairs of Patterns....Pages 450-462 Finding Missing Patterns....Pages 463-474 Back Matter....Pages -