Selected articles from the 1st International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering-IWBBIO 2013

Advances in bioinformatics and biomedical engineering - special issue of IWBBIO 2013

Authors: Francisco M Ortuño and Ignacio Rojas

A visual test based on a freeware software for quantifying and displaying night-vision disturbances: study in subjects after alcohol consumption

In this work, we propose the Halo test, a simple visual test based on a freeware software for quantifying and displaying night-vision disturbances perceived by subjects under different experimental conditions,...

Authors: José J Castro, Carolina Ortiz, Antonio M Pozo, Rosario G Anera and Margarita Soler

Seeking genetic signature of radiosensitivity - a novel method for data analysis in case of small sample sizes

The identification of polymorphisms and/or genes responsible for an organism's radiosensitivity increases the knowledge about the cell cycle and the mechanism of the phenomena themselves, possibly providing th...

Authors: Joanna Zyla, Paul Finnon, Robert Bulman, Simon Bouffler, Christophe Badie and Joanna Polanska

A flowgraph model for bladder carcinoma

Superficial bladder cancer has been the subject of numerous studies for many years, but the evolution of the disease still remains not well understood. After the tumor has been surgically removed, it may reapp...

Authors: Gregorio Rubio, Belén García-Mora, Cristina Santamaría and José Luis Pontones

Improvement of design of a surgical interface using an eye tracking device

Surgical interfaces are used for helping surgeons in interpretation and quantification of the patient information, and for the presentation of an integrated workflow where all available data are combined to en...

Authors: Duygun Erol Barkana and Alper Açık

An extended gene protein/products boolean network model including post-transcriptional regulation

Networks Biology allows the study of complex interactions between biological systems using formal, well structured, and computationally friendly models. Several different network models can be created, dependi...

Authors: Alfredo Benso, Stefano Di Carlo, Gianfranco Politano, Alessandro Savino and Alessandro Vasciaveo

Analysing Twitter and web queries for flu trend prediction

Social media platforms encourage people to share diverse aspects of their daily life. Among these, shared health related information might be used to infer health status and incidence rates for specific condit...

Authors: José Carlos Santos and Sérgio Matos

Application of genetic algorithms and constructive neural networks for the analysis of microarray cancer data

Extracting relevant information from microarray data is a very complex task due to the characteristics of the data sets, as they comprise a large number of features while few samples are generally available. I...

Authors: Rafael Marcos Luque-Baena, Daniel Urda, Jose Luis Subirats, Leonardo Franco and Jose M Jerez

Pathway landscapes and epigenetic regulation in breast cancer and melanoma cell lines

Epigenetic variation is a main regulation mechanism of gene expression in various cancer histotypes, and due to its reversibility, the potential impact in therapy can be very relevant.

Authors: Mariama El Baroudi, Dario La Sala, Caterina Cinti and Enrico Capobianco