The next step in the understanding of the genome organization, after the determination of complete sequences, involves proteomics. The proteome includes the whole set of protein-protein interactions, and two recent independent ...

Sequence alignment remains a fundamental problem with practical applications ranging from pattern recognition to computational biology. Traditional algorithms based on dynamic programming are hard to parallelize, require ...

Provision of security and privacy to genomic data is a key issue in current genomic information representation. Existing formats do not give a solution to these issues (or they provide a partial one), so new solutions are ...

In the last years, advances in next-generation sequencing technologies have enabled the proliferation of genomic applications that guide personalized medicine. These applications have an enormous computational cost due to ...

Transposable elements (TEs) are repetitive DNA sequences found in all prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. They are able to move from one genome location to another and replicate in the genome, producing mutations and ...

Analysis of RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data from related individuals is widely used in clinical and molecular genetics studies. Prediction of kinship from RNA-seq data would be useful for confirming the expected relationships ...

Feature selection is an important technique to find the most relevant features. Apache Spark is a big data processing framework but unable to cope with approx. 0.74 million features in our Obesity dataset. However, we ...