Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: 5th Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 31--September 3, 2010, Proceedings in Bloomington, MN

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2010, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August/September 2010.
The 5 full papers and 5 extended abstracts presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The topics of interest vary in many areas of Bioinformatics, including sequence analysis, motifs, and pattern matching; biomedical text mining; biological databases, data management, integration; biological data mining; structural, comparative, and functional genomics; protein structure, modeling and simulation; gene identification, and regulation; gene expression analysis; gene and protein interaction and networks; molecular docking; molecular evolution and phylogenetics; computational systems biology; computational proteomics; statistical analysis of molecular sequences; algorithms for problems in computational biology; as well as applications in molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, and associated subjects.