ICBBB provides a scientific platform for both local and international scientists, engineers and technologists who work in all aspects of bioscience, biochemistry and bioinformatics. In addition to the contributed papers, internationally known experts from several countries are also invited to deliver keynote and plenary speeches at ICBBB 2018.
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Simulation Study for Wild-Type and C101F Mutant of LIM2 Domain in FHL1
- Hiroki Takeuchi,
- Hiroki Okajima,
- Hironao Yamada,
- Takeshi Miyakawa,
- Ryota Morikawa,
- Masako Takasu,
- Yukiko K. Hayashi
Myopathy is a rare disease lacking a fundamental therapy. Several genetic factors are involved in myopathy; those caused by mutations in FHL1 are rare. We performed molecular dynamics simulation of the LIM2 domain in FHL1 (four and a half LIM domain ...
Iterative Scaling Fuzzy Additive Spectral Clustering (is-FADDIS) Algorithm for Subtypes Cancer Identification using Gene Expression Data
Cancer is one of main non-communicable disease. Analysis of subtypes cancer identification is important to determine the proper treatment for each patient. However, cancer data analysis is difficult problem since it has multiple risk factors genes and ...
Comparative Co-expression Analysis between Soybean and Arabidopsis
Arabidopsis thaliana, an important model species, is widely used in biology research, and employing its knowledge to study other related species is one of the major applications. Soybean is a major legume crop and it is of great economic and nutritional ...
Molecular Cloning and Comparative Analysis of Variable Regions of Monoclonal Antibody against Enrofloxacin Clone 48
Enrofloxacin is fluoroquinolone antibiotic which prohibited approved for treatment in animals. However, their residues in animal products can pose adverse side effects to consumer. Therefore, the maximum residue limit of these drugs has been enforced in ...
Genome-wide Identification and Expression Analysis of the TRK Gene Family in Aspergillus oryzae
Aspergillus oryzae is a traditional production strain in China for brewing wine, edible soy sauce, fermented soya beans and so on. It can be well adapted to salt stress, low pH and alcohol stress, and the TRK gene family plays an important role in ...
Isolation and Characterization of Collagen from Red Cheek Barb Scale (Puntius orphoides)
This research involved experimental investigation isolation of some characteristics of collagen from red cheek barb scale which is the waste from pickled fish factory. Firstly, the effect of decalcification conditions including HCl solution ...
Improvement of template-based protein structure prediction by using chimera alignment
The determination of a protein's structure provides important information that can be used for various practical applications in the biological sciences, such as virtual screening, function prediction, etc. Protein structures can be precisely predicted ...
Use of Low Temperature Cold Atmospheric Plasma in the Treatment of Melanoma Cells
Recently, cold atmospheric-pressure (CAP) plasma have become a novel and popular tools in biomedical applications. It has been proved that CAP plasma treatment will induce cancer cells death. With different CAP plasma treatment parameters, cells will ...
Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Sulerythrin and LARFH for Producing Protein Nanofibers
- Takashi Ozawa,
- Hironao Yamada,
- Takeshi Miyakawa,
- Ryota Morikawa,
- Sota Yagi,
- Satoshi Akanuma,
- Akihiko Yamagishi,
- Masako Takasu
Artificial creation of fibers utilizing proteins has been a target of bionanotechnology. Yagi et al. succeeded in designing artificial protein fibers using two types of proteins: LARFH and sulerythrin. Binding interfaces were designed for sulerythrin ...
Enumerating Chemical Mono-Block 3-Augmented Trees with Two Junctions
Enumerating chemical graphs with given constraints on their topological structure is a fundamental problem in chemoinformatics and bioinformatics, with a wide range of applications, including structure determination and designing novel chemical ...
Uses of Copra Waste and Wheat Bran for Cellulase Production by Trichoderma reesei in Solid State Fermentation
The potential use of copra waste from coconut pressing process for cellulase production by solid-state fermentation (SSF) was studied in this research. Trichoderma reesei TISTR3080 was cultivated at 30°C for 7 days on the copra waste (CW) with and ...
Feasibility Application of Biodegradable Active Films Produced by Poly(lactic acid) Incorporating with Limonene as an Antimicrobial Packaging for Fresh Beef Meat
A novel composite-based packaging was prepared by blending poly(lactic acid) (PLA) with various concentrations (0, 4, 6 and 8%, w/w) of limonene and was applied to prolong the shelf life of fresh beef meat during cold storage. The barrier properties of ...
Degradation Kinetics of Cyanide and Uric acid in Bamboo Shoot during Boiling Process
The effects of boiling temperatures (60, 70, 80, 90, and 100°C) and shape (whole shoots, slices, and rectangular rods) on the degradation of cyanide and uric acid in bamboo shoots during the boiling process were investigated. Boiling temperature was ...
A Study of Immune Function Improvement Induced by Ganoderma Lucidum Alkaloid in Mice
Objective: To study the effect of extractive of Ganoderma lucidum (G. lucidum) alkaloid on immune function in mice. Methods: 48 female BALB/c mice were randomly divided into 4 groups (n=12), 10 mg/kg·d (group A), 50 mg/kg·d (group B), 100 mg/kg·d (group ...
Structural Analysis of Metal-Binding Peptides Using Molecular Dynamics
- Mao Watabe,
- Hironao Yamada,
- Takeshi Miyakawa,
- Ryota Morikawa,
- Masako Takasu,
- Tatsuya Uchida,
- Akihiko Yamagishi
Proteins that specifically bind metals have been the target of the research for developing new organic-inorganic hybrid materials. Some amino acid sequences that bind metal have been reported, and the structures of proteins and peptides are considered ...
Preparation and Characterization of Ca-alginate-chitosan Capsules for Controlled Release of Imidacloprid as Larvaecide Delivery System
Ca-alginate-chitosan based capsules were prepared and then loaded with imidacloprid larvaecide for its controlled release against Aedes aegypti larvae. The Ca-alginate-chitosan capsules containing imidacloprid were characterized using FTIR and SEM. ...
Mining Patterns of Drug-Disease Association from Biomedical Texts
Drug repurposing aims to identify new indications for approved drugs, and it can promisingly reduce time and drug development costs. The goal of the paper, drug-disease relation extraction automatically from biomedical texts, is fundamental to the study ...
The Drug Delivery System of Centella asiatica extract-loaded Gelatin Nanoparticles using of One-step desolvation Method
Centella asiatica is used as medicinal plant to treat various types of symptoms and diseases as well as to improve memory recognition. C. asiatica crude extracts showed excellent potential In-vitro but poor In-vivo bioavailability and drug delivery ...
Early Prediction of Ventilator Weaning with Decision Tree Analysis
The rapid shallow breathing index (RSBI) is commonly used clinically for predicting the outcome of ventilator weaning. However, the results of prediction are controversial. This study employs decision tree analysis of data mining to construct ventilator ...
Study of Recyclability of EMIM-Ac in Rice Straw Pretreatment
- Ratsarin Akkharasinphonrat,
- Kraipat Cheenkachorn,
- Surapun Tepaamorndech,
- Atthasit Tawai,
- Malinee Sriariyanun
Pretreatment is a vital process for the conversion of lignocellulose biomass into energy. The pretreatment process is known to enhance solubilization and dissociation of the complex lignocellulose structure. This study focused on efficacy of ionic ...
Wood-Plastic Biocomposites Prepared from Recycled High Density Polyethylene Bottles and Wood Flour: A Comparative Study with Virgin High Density Polyethylene/Wood Flour Composites
The effect of wood flour (WF) contents on the mechanical, physical and morphological properties of recycled high density polyethylene (rHDPE) and virgin HDPE (vHDPE) and WF composites were investigated in the current research. Both the rHDPE and vHDPE ...
Effective Decolorization of Malachite Green Using Kocuria marina DAGII and its Toxicological Study
Malachite Green (MG) is a highly toxic synthetic dye which is a major component of textile industry. It alone accounts for the two-third of the total production of the wastewater. Biological decolorization of dye is highly effective and a promising ...
Optimal-channel Selection Algorithms in Mental Tasks based Brain-computer Interface
Brain computer interface (BCI) for healthy people is a growing field. Minimizing the number of electroencephalography (EEG) channels is a key technological advantage for the application of BCI, which would make the system more mobile, easier to setup ...
A Wearable Wireless fNIRS System
Neurovascular coupling mechanisms in functional brain activity has always been important areas of brain science. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) has been utilized in the recent decades for examining functional brain activity by measuring ...
Automatic Liver Segmentation in Abdomen CT Images using SLIC and AdaBoost Algorithms
This study is an implementation of liver segmentation on abdomen CT images. The liver organ was segmented by using SLIC super-pixel and AdaBoost algorithms. Firstly, the images were clustered by SLIC super-pixel algorithm. Then, the liver was segmented ...
An Investigation of Errors in Fluoroscopic Navigation for Robot-Assisted Orthopedic Surgery
In surgical robot systems, the main part of the error is caused by navigation system. Practically, the error changes under different circumstances. To minimize the impact of navigation error, the factors associated with the errors need to be studied. ...
Discriminative Local Feature Fusion for Ear Recognition Problem
Ear recognition problem is known as selecting whether two ear images belong to the same person or not, this consider as a challenge due to variation in lighting, background, pose, scale, and occlusion. This paper presents an improvement method for ...
Pantura Water Quality: Comparing the Pollution Distribution Model of Comal River and Garang River
Sea is the estuary of rivers on land. In the sea all kind of pollutions carried by the river flow will be accumuated, which make the sea water quality worse than the river itself. Comal river and Garang river is two of the few river that flows into the ...
Feasibility of Using Hypersaline Lake Sediment as Inoculum for Biogas Production from Anaerobic Digestion of Saline Wastewater
Anaerobic digestion processes have been widely used for biogas production from various substrates, however, without much attention to the saline effluents containing organic compounds. This study aims to investigate the use of hypersaline lake sediment ...
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Proceedings of the 2018 8th International Conference on Bioscience, Biochemistry and Bioinformatics




