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Volume 6 Supplement 3

Selected articles from the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine 2012: Medical Genomics

Research

Edited by Xiaohua Hu

Publication of this supplement has not been supported by sponsorship. Information about the source of funding for publication charges can be found in the individual articles. Articles have undergone the journal's standard review process for supplements. The Supplement Editor declares that he has no competing interests.

IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine 2012. Go to conference site.

Philadelphia, PA, USA4-7 October 2012

  1. In recent years, both single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have been widely used for the study of schizophrenia (SCZ). In addition, a few studies have bee...

    Authors: Hongbao Cao, Junbo Duan, Dongdong Lin, Vince Calhoun and Yu-Ping Wang
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2013 6(Suppl 3):S2
  2. The aim of this report is to provide a mathematical model of the mechanism for making binary fate decisions about cell death or survival, during and after Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) treatment, and to supply th...

    Authors: Ioannis Gkigkitzis
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2013 6(Suppl 3):S3
  3. During the last few years, the knowledge of drug, disease phenotype and protein has been rapidly accumulated and more and more scientists have been drawn the attention to inferring drug-disease associations by...

    Authors: Yu-Fen Huang, Hsiang-Yuan Yeh and Von-Wun Soo
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2013 6(Suppl 3):S4
  4. Phylogenetic analyses can resolve historical relationships among genes, organisms or higher taxa. Understanding such relationships can elucidate a wide range of biological phenomena, including, for example, th...

    Authors: Maryam Panahiazar, Amit P Sheth, Ajith Ranabahu, Rutger A Vos and Jim Leebens-Mack
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2013 6(Suppl 3):S5
  5. With digitisation and the development of computer-aided diagnosis, histopathological image analysis has attracted considerable interest in recent years. In this article, we address the problem of the automated...

    Authors: Gang Zhang, Jian Yin, Ziping Li, Xiangyang Su, Guozheng Li and Honglai Zhang
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2013 6(Suppl 3):S10
  6. Insulin secreted by pancreatic islet β-cells is the principal regulating hormone of glucose metabolism and plays a key role in controlling glucose level in blood. Impairment of the pancreatic islet function may c...

    Authors: Yang Pu, Saangho Lee, David C Samuels, Layne T Watson and Yang Cao
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2013 6(Suppl 3):S6
  7. Acute inflammation is a severe medical condition defined as an inflammatory response of the body to an infection. Its rapid progression requires quick and accurate decisions from clinicians. Inadequate and del...

    Authors: Vladan Radosavljevic, Kosta Ristovski and Zoran Obradovic
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2013 6(Suppl 3):S7
  8. Currently, a surgical approach is the best curative treatment for those with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, this requires HCC detection and removal of the lesion at an early stage. Unfortunately, mos...

    Authors: Mengjun Wang, Anand Mehta, Timothy M Block, Jorge Marrero, Adrian M Di Bisceglie and Karthik Devarajan
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2013 6(Suppl 3):S9

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Medical Genomics 2013 6:S11

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