**BIOINFORMATICS – TRENDS AND METHODOLOGIES**

Edited by **Mahmood A. Mahdavi**

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/786 Edited by Mahmood A. Mahdavi

#### **Contributors**

Noam Shomron, Ofer Isakov, Amit Kumar, Kriti Verma, Amita Sinha, Mahmood A. Mahdavi, Samaneh F. Farsani, Gregory Nuel, Mahmoud ElHefnawi, Mohamed Mysara, Xiao-Feng Yang, Fan Yang, Irene Yang, Hong Wang, Chunsheng Kang, Junxia Zhang, Yingyi Wang, Yongping You, Peiyu Pu, Ion C. Baianu, Eric Sakk, Iyanuoluwa Odebode, Alexandre Carmo, Vattipally Sreenu, Esther Orozco, Israel López-Reyes, Cecilia Bañuelos, Abigail Betanzos, Tom Burr, Zhiguo Wang, Xaibin Luo, Ronnie G. Willaert, Hichem Sahli, Jianzhen Xu, Chiwai Wong, Tamer Kahveci, Nirmalya Bandyopadhyay, Sanjay Ranka, Bin Song, Esra B¨uy¨uktahtakın, Brian Dalrymple, Abhirami Ratnakumar, Wesley Barris, Sean Mcwilliam, Christian Baumgartner, Roland Kienast, Lucía Ramírez, Gumer Pérez, Antonio G. Pisabarro, Zhang Zhang, Jun Yu, Jeffrey Peter Townsend, Vladimir Bajic, Kei-Hoi Cheung, Sheau Ling Ho, Neamat El Gayar, Eman Ahmed, Iman El Azab, Haja N. N Kadarmideen, Stephen J. Goodswen, Etsuko N. Moriyama, Cory Strope, Catherine Anderson, Yulia Medvedeva, Atoosa Ghahremani, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Teresa K. Attwood, Andreas Gisel, Nils-Einar Eriksson, Hossam Faheem, Yasmeen Farouk, Tarek El-Deeb, Vasco Azevedo, Amjad Ali, Anderson Rodrigues Dos Santos, Eudes Barbosa, Louise Cerdeira, Rommel Thiago Juca Ramos, Sintia Silva Almeida, Siomar Castro Soares, Vinicius Augusto Carvalho Abreu, Maria Paula Cruz Schneider, Artur Silva, Aryane Cassiano, Adriana Ribeiro Carneiro Folador, Anne Cybelle Pinto, Jozef Sevcik, Vladena Hlinkova, Jacob Bauer, Eva Hostinova, Juraj Gasperik, Konrad Beck, Lubos Borko, Alexandra Zahradnikova, Andrea Faltinova, Feng Liu, Geert Wets, Liliane Schoofs, Marleen Lindemans, Geert Baggerman

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