By Adrian-Horia Dediu, Carlos Martín-Vide, Bianca Truthe (eds.)

This publication constitutes the refereed complaints of the 1st overseas convention, AlCoB 2014, held in July 2014 in Tarragona, Spain.

The 20 revised complete papers have been conscientiously reviewed and chosen from 39 submissions. The scope of AlCoB comprises issues of both theoretical or utilized curiosity, specifically: particular series research, approximate series research, pairwise series alignment, a number of series alignment, series meeting, genome rearrangement, regulatory motif discovering, phylogeny reconstruction, phylogeny comparability, constitution prediction, proteomics: molecular pathways, interplay networks, transcriptomics: splicing variations, isoform inference and quantification, differential research, next-generation sequencing: inhabitants genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, microbiome research, structures biology.

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Furthermore, even if we estimate such a matrix, we need to achieve certain level of knowledge regarding the structure. Only then we would be able to understand how the system works, this means, understand its behavior and understand what causes the system to behave as it does. Vester’s Sensitivity Model states that these questions can be answered by analyzing the Systemic Role that the variables, in our case the genes, have. In turn, the Systemic Role is determined by the Indices of Influence, they summarize the information about the magnitude and the character of the interactions among the genes, and are calculated from the Impact Matrix.

Notice that the running time for the instances from our application is about four times as large as for a random instance. This is mainly due to the more expensive distance computation. Furthermore, we observed that the number of distance computations is slightly larger for the benchmarks from the application. 32 E. Althaus, A. K. Hildebrandt Table 1. seconds) and the number of distance evaluations (in billion) together with the respective standard deviation for different sizes of the priority queue, either having constant size queues or having size growing linearly with the number of points in the cluster.

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