Preface .........................................................................................................................573

Lonnie R. Welch, Jianjun Hu

New Frontiers in Computational Genomics: Identification of Novel Functional

Elements and Genome-Scale Pattern Analysis ..........................................................575

Laura Elnitski, Lonnie R. Welch

Seeking Significant Oligomers via Set Partitions Expected Count ............................584

Stephen Sauchi Lee

Finding Occurrences of Relevant Functional Elements in Genomic Signatures ........599

Edwin Jacox, Laura Elnitski

RnallViewer: A Tool for Prediction, Localization and Visualization of RNA Local

Secondary Structure ....................................................................................................607

Xiu-Feng Wan, Peter P. Dempsey, Dong Xu

A Design Pattern for Protein Identification ................................................................613

Jens Lichtenberg, Lonnie R. Welch

Graph Tree Decomposition Based Fast Peptide Sequencing and Spectral Alignment

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Chunmei Liu, Yinglei Song, Bo Yan, Ying Xu, Liming Cai

Hybrid Parallel Tempering and Simulated Annealing Method – An Efficient Sampling

Method in ab initio Protein Folding .............................................................................646

Yaohang Li, Charlie E. M. Strauss, Andrey Gorin

The Classification of Hydroxyproline-Rich Glycoproteins Using Machine Learning .662

Dazhang Gu, Lonnie Welch, Allan Showalter, Brian Keppler

Beyond PubMed and Google Scholar: Using Vertical Digital Library Portals to Enhance

Exploratory Biomedical Literature Mining ..................................................................678

Adam D. Troy, Guo-Qiang Zhang

Segmentation-Assisted Registration for Brain MR Images ........................................690

Jundong Liu, Yang Wang, Junhong Liu