Journal Contents: International Journal of Systems Biology and Biomedical Technologies (IJSBBT)

Volume 3 (2015)
Issue 1
Article 1
Evolutionary Search for Cellular Automata with Self-Organizing Properties toward Controlling Decentralized Pervasive Systems and Its Applications (pages 1-19)
Yusuke Iwase (Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (IIJ), Tokyo, Japan), Reiji Suzuki (Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan), Takaya Arita (Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan)
Article 2
Biomedical Instrumentation: Diagnosis and Therapy (pages 20-38)
John G. Webster (Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA)
Article 3
Biologically Inspired Components in Embedded Vision Systems (pages 39-72)
Li-Minn Ang (School of Computing and Mathematics, Charles Sturt University, Perth, Australia), Kah Phooi Seng (School of Computing and Mathematics, Charles Sturt University, Perth, Australia), Christopher Wing Hong Ngau (Intel, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia)
Article 4
Polarization-based Robot Orientation and Navigation: Progress and Insights (pages 73-89)
Abd El Rahman Shabayek (Computer Science Department, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt), Olivier Morel (University of Burgundy, Dijon, France), David Fofi (University of Burgundy, Dijon, France)
Volume 2 (2013)
Issue 1
Article 1
Exploratory Point Pattern Analysis for Modeling Biological Data (pages 1-13)
Stelios Zimeras (Department of Statistics and Actuarial-Financial Mathematics, University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, Samos, Greece)
Article 2
Spatial Uncertainty Analysis in Ecological Biology (pages 14-24)
Stelios Zimeras (Department of Statistics and Actuarial-Financial Mathematics, University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, Samos, Greece), Yiannis Matsinos (Biodiversity Conservation Laboratory, Department of Environmental Studies, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece)
Article 3
Users’ Perception towards the “Safe Medication through Pharmacovigilance and Compliance Monitoring (Pharmacov)” Service (pages 25-34)
George E. Karagiannis (Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK), Lida Tzachani (Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK), Vasileios G. Stamatopoulos (Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Greece), Athina Lazakidou (Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece), Dimitra Iliopoulou (Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece), Maria Petridou (University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK), Michael A. Gatzoulis (Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK)
Article 4
Methods for the Evaluation of Right Ventricular Volume Using Ultrasound on a Catheter, in Intensive Care Unit (pages 35-50)
Petros Toumpaniaris (Biomedical Engineering Lab, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece), Athina Lazakidou (Department of Nursing, University of Peloponnese, Peloponnese, Greece), Dimitrios Koutsouris (Biomedical Engineering Lab, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece)
Article 5
An Innovative Approach to Enhance Collaboration in the Biomedical Field (pages 51-64)
Georgia Tsiliki (Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Manolis Tzagarakis (Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, University of Patras, Rio Patras, Greece), Spyros Christodoulou (Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, University of Patras, Rio Patras, Greece), Sophia Kossida (Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Nikos Karacapilidis (Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, University of Patras, Rio Patras, Greece)
Issue 2
Special Issue on Biostatistics and Computational Mathematics for Life Sciences Research (Part 2)
Guest Editorial Preface
Athina Lazakidou (Department of Nursing, Faculty of Human Movement and Quality of Life Sciences, University of Peloponnese, Sparta, Greece), George Kaimakamis (Hellenic Army Academy, Vari, Greece)
Article 1
Computational Modeling and Simulations in Life Sciences (pages 1-7)
Athina Lazakidou (Department of Nursing, Faculty of Human Movement and Quality of Life Sciences, University of Peloponnese, Sparta, Greece), Maria Petridou (School of Computer Science & IT, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK), Dimitra Iliopoulou (Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece)
Article 2
Cathelicidins Revisited: Molecular Evolution, Structure and Functional Implications (pages 8-32)
Athanasia Pavlopoulou (Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece)
Article 3
A Novel Radial Basis Function Networks Locally Tuned with Differential Evolution for Classification: An Application in Medical Science (pages 33-57)
Ch. Sanjeev Kumar Dash (Department of Computer Science, Silicon Institute of Technology, Patia, Bhubaneswar, India), Ajit Kumar Behera (Department of Computer Application, Silicon Institute of Technology, Patia, Bhubaneswar, India), Satchidananda Dehuri (Department of Systems Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea), Sung-Bae Cho (Department of Computer Science, Soft Computing Laboratory, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea)
Article 4
3D Printing: Basic Concepts Mathematics and Technologies (pages 58-71)
Alexander Rompas (Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece), Charalampos Tsirmpas (Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece), Ianos Papatheodorou (Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece), Georgia Koutsouri (Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece), Dimitris Koutsouris (Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece)
Article 5
Statistical Power and Sample Size in Personalized Medicine (pages 72-88)
Alexander Rompas (Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece), Charalampos Tsirmpas (Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece), Athanasios Anastasiou (Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece), Dimitra Iliopoulou (Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece), Dimitris Koutsouris (Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece)
Issue 3
Article 1
Implementation of Recursive Brute Force for Solving Motif Finding Problem on Multi-Core (pages 1-18)
Marwa A. Radad (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menouf, Egypt), Nawal A. El-Fishawy (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menouf, Egypt), Hossam M. Faheem (Department of Computer Systems, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt)
Article 2
Supporting Binding-Sites Discovery via Iterative Database Processing (pages 19-41)
Ran Tel-Nir (Technology and Information Systems Program, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel), Roy Gelbard (Information Systems Program, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel), Israel Spiegler (Technology and Information Systems Program, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel)
Article 3
In Silico Analysis of the CST6 Tumor Suppressor Gene (pages 42-58)
Athanasia Pavlopoulou (Department of Biotechnology, Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Georgios Tsaramirsis (Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
Article 4
An Update on the H7N9 Strain of the Influenza A Virus (pages 59-66)
Dimitrios Vlachakis (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Argiro Karozou (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Spyridon Champeris Tsaniras (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Sophia Kossida (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece)
Article 5
3D Structural Bioinformatics of Proteins and Antibodies: State of the Art Perspectives and Challenges (pages 67-74)
Arianna Filntisi (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Dimitrios Vlachakis (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), George Matsopoulos (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Sophia Kossida (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece)
Issue 4
Article 1
Computer-Aided Drug Design and Biological Evaluation of Novel Anti-Greek Goat Encephalitis Agents (pages 1-16)
Louis Papageorgiou (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Dimitrios Vlachakis (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Vassiliki Lila Koumandou (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Nikitas Papangelopoulos (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Sophia Kossida (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece)
Article 2
Neuroscience and Symptoms Related to the CADASIL Disease (pages 17-23)
Katerina Ioannidou (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Dimitrios Vlachakis (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), George Matsopoulos (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece), Sophia Kossida (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece)
Article 3
State-of-the-Art GPGPU Applications in Bioinformatics (pages 24-48)
Nikitas Papangelopoulos (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Dimitrios Vlachakis (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Arianna Filntisi (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece & School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece), Paraskevas Fakourelis (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Louis Papageorgiou (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Vasileios Megalooikonomou (Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, School of Engineering, University of Patras, Patras, Greece), Sophia Kossida (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece)
Article 4
An Up-To-Date Review of Piglet Isosporosis: New Insights and Therapeutic Perspectives (pages 49-62)
Vasiliki Boulaki (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Dimitrios Vlachakis (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Smaragda Sotiraki (Hellenic Agricultural Organisation-Demeter (former NAGREF), Veterinary Research Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece), Sophia Kossida (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece)
Article 5
State-of-the-Art Neural Networks Applications in Biology (pages 63-85)
Arianna Filntisi (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Nikitas Papangelopoulos (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Elena Bencurova (Laboratory of Biomedical Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy, Kosice, Slovakia), Ioannis Kasampalidis (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), George Matsopoulos (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece), Dimitrios Vlachakis (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Sophia Kossida (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece)
Article 6
A Benchmark of Structural Variant Analysis Tools for Next Generation Sequencing Data (pages 86-98)
Chatzinikolaou Panagiotis (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Makris Christos (Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, Rio, Greece), Dimitrios Vlachakis (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece), Sophia Kossida (Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece)
Volume 1 (2012)
Issue 1
Article 1
MINOTAUR: A Web-Based Annotator-Assistant Tool (pages 1-10)
Alex L. Mitchell (University of Manchester and European Bioinformatics Institute, UK), Ioannis Selimas (University of Manchester, UK), Teresa K. Attwood (University of Manchester, UK)
Article 2
Data Graphs for Linking Clinical Phenotype and Molecular Feature Space (pages 11-25)
Andreas Heinzel (Emergentec Biodevelopment GmbH, Austria), Raul Fechete (Emergentec Biodevelopment GmbH, Austria), Johannes Söllner (Emergentec Biodevelopment GmbH, Austria), Paul Perco (Emergentec Biodevelopment GmbH, Austria), Georg Heinze (Medical University of Vienna, Austria), Rainer Oberbauer (Medical University of Vienna, Austria), Gert Mayer (Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria), Arno Lukas (Emergentec Biodevelopment GmbH, Austria), Bernd Mayer (Emergentec Biodevelopment GmbH, Austria)
Article 3
Mapping Short Reads to a Genomic Sequence with Circular Structure (pages 26-34)
Tomas Flouri (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic), Costas S. Iliopoulos (King’s College London, UK, and Curtin University, Australia), Solon P. Pissis (King’s College London, UK), German Tischler (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
Article 4
Article 5
Facilitating and Augmenting Collaboration in the Biomedical Domain (pages 52-65)
Nikos Karacapilidis (University of Patras and Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece), Manolis Tzagarakis (University of Patras and Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece), Spyros Christodoulou (University of Patras and Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece), Georgia Tsiliki (Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Greece)
Issue 2
Article 1
Chemosensitivity Prediction of Tumours Based on Expression, miRNA, and Proteomics Data (pages 1-19)
I. Tsamardinos (ICS-FORTH and University of Crete, Greece), G. Borboudakis (ICS-FORTH and University of Crete, Greece), E. G. Christodoulou (BIOTEC Technische Universität Dresden, Germany), O. D. Røe (Levanger Hospital—Nord-Trøndelag Health Trust, Norway, and Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Article 2
Efficient Computational Construction of Weighted Protein-Protein Interaction Networks Using Adaptive Filtering Techniques Combined with Natural Selection-Based Heuristic Algorithms (pages 20-34)
Christos M. Dimitrakopoulos (University of Patras, Greece), Konstantinos A. Theofilatos (University of Patras, Greece), Efstratios F. Georgopoulos (Technological Educational Institute of Kalamata, Greece), Spiridon Likothanassis (University of Patras, Greece), Athanasios Tsakalidis (University of Patras, Greece), Seferina P. Mavroudi (University of Patras, Greece)
Article 3
Using a Genetic Algorithm and Markov Clustering on Protein–Protein Interaction Graphs (pages 35-47)
Charalampos Moschopoulos (Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, and University of Patras, Greece), Grigorios Beligiannis (University of Western Greece, Greece), Spiridon Likothanassis (University of Patras, Greece), Sophia Kossida (Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Greece)
Article 4
Mathematical Models of Dynamic Behavior of Individual Neural Networks of Central Nervous System (pages 48-65)
Dimitra-Despoina Pagania (University of Patras, Greece), Adam Adamopoulos (University of Patras and Democritus University of Thrace, Greece), Spiridon Likothanassis (University of Patras, Greece)
Article 5
Towards Optimal Microarray Universal Reference Sample Designs: An In-Silico Optimization Approach (pages 66-77)
George Potamias (ICS-Forth, Greece), Sofia Kaforou (IMBB-Forth, Greece), Dimitris Kafetzopoulos (ICS-Forth, Greece)
Issue 3
Article 1
Data Mining and Meta-Analysis on DNA Microarray Data (pages 1-39)
Triantafyllos Paparountas (Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming”, Greece), Maria Nefeli Nikolaidou-Katsaridou (Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming”, Greece), Gabriella Rustici (European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute, UK), Vasilis Aidinis (Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming”, Greece)
Article 2
High-Accuracy Characterization of Ambulatory Holter Electrocardiogram Events: A Comparative Study Between Walsh-Hadamard Transform, First-Derivative-Based and Intelligent Techniques (pages 40-71)
Mohammad Reza Homaeinezhad (Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran), Seyyed Amir Hoseini Sabzevari (Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran), Ali Ghaffari (Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran), Mohammad Daevaeiha (Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology, and DAY General Hospital, Tehran, Iran)
Article 3
An Approach for ECG Characterization and Classification Using the Combination of Wavelet Transform and Decision Tree Methods (pages 72-81)
Faiza Charfi (National Engineering School of Sfax, Tunisia), Ali Kraiem (National Engineering School of Sfax, Tunisia)
Issue 4
Article 1
Dynamic Analysis of the Possible Effects of Leptin in Some Metabolic Disorders in Obesity (pages 1-15)
Alejandro Talaminos (Biomedical Engineering Group, School of Engineering, University of Seville, Seville, Spain), Laura M. Roa Romero (Biomedical Engineering Group, School of Engineering, University of Seville, Seville, Spain)
Article 2
Binarization and Validation in Formal Concept Analysis (pages 16-27)
Mostafa A. Salama (Department of Computer Science, British University in Egypt, El Sherouk City, Cairo, Egypt), Aboul Ella Hassanien (Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University, Giza, Cairo, Egypt)
Article 3
Statistical Analysis for Radiologists’ Interpretations Variability in Mammograms (pages 28-46)
Ahmad Taher Azar (Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE) & Misr University for Science & Technology, 6th of October City, Giza, Egypt)
Article 4
Detrended Fluctuation Analysis Features for Automated Sleep Staging of Sleep EEG (pages 47-59)
Amr F. Farag (Department of Systems and Biomedical Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, & Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shorouk Higher Institute of Engineering, EL-Shorouk, Egypt), Shereen M. El-Metwally (Department of Systems and Biomedical Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt)
Article 5
Integrated Features Based on Gray-Level and Hu Moment-Invariants with Ant Colony System for Retinal Blood Vessels Segmentation (pages 60-73)
Ahmed H. Asad (Institute of Statistical Studies and Research, Department of Computer Science, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt), Ahmad Taher Azar (Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE) & Misr University for Science & Technology, 6th of October City, Giza, Egypt), Aboul Ella Hassanien (Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt)
Article 6
Heart Sounds Human Identification and Verification Approaches using Vector Quantization and Gaussian Mixture Models (pages 74-87)
Neveen I. Ghali (Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt), Rasha Wahid (Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt), Aboul Ella Hassanien (Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE), Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt)