The papers receiving these awards were selected from a set of outstanding papers,
based on the quantitative and qualitative classifications as well as comments provided
by the program committee reviewers, their final classification as full paper and
their oral presentation at the conference.
2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010
BIOINFORMATICS 2022
Best Paper Award
Lossy Compressor Preserving Variant Calling through Extended BWT
Veronica Guerrini, Felipe A. Louza and Giovanna Rosone
Best Student Paper Award
Efficient k-mer Indexing with Application to Mapping-free SNP Genotyping
Mattia Marcolin, Francesco Andreace and Matteo Comin
Best Poster Award
Bioinformatics Analysis of Gene Targets for Birt-Hogg-Dube Syndrome Associated with Renal Cell Cancer using NetworkAnalyst
Mariemme D. Martos and Marineil C. Gomez
BIOINFORMATICS 2021
Best Paper Award
Backward Pattern Matching on Elastic Degenerate Strings
Petr Procházka, Ondřej Cvacho, Luboš Krčál and Jan Holub
Best Student Paper Award
Applying PySCMGroup to Breast Cancer Biomarkers Discovery
Mazid A. Osseni, Prudencio Tossou, Jacques Corbeil and François Laviolette
Coordinate Systems for Pangenome Graphs based on the Level Function and Minimum Path Covers
Thomas Büchler, Caroline Räther, Pascal Weber and Enno Ohlebusch
Best Poster Award
A Deep Learning Method to Impute Missing Values and Compress Genome-wide Polymorphism Data in Rice
Tanzila Islam, Chyon H. Kim, Hiroyoshi Iwata, Hiroyuki Shimono, Akio Kimura, Hein Zaw, Chitra Raghavan, Hei Leung and Rakesh K. Singh
BIOINFORMATICS 2020
Best Paper Award
Prediction of Dynamical Properties of Biochemical Pathways with Graph Neural Networks
Pasquale Bove, Alessio Micheli, Paolo Milazzo and Marco Podda
Efficient Computation of Base-pairing Probabilities in Multi-strand RNA Folding
Ronny Lorenz, Christoph Flamm, Ivo L. Hofacker and Peter F. Stadler
Best Poster Award
SIRA-HIV: A User-friendly System to Evaluate HIV-1 Drug Resistance from Next-generation Sequencing Data
Letícia M. Raposo, Mônica B. Arruda, Rodrigo M. Brindeiro and Flavio F. Nobre
BIOINFORMATICS 2019
Best Paper Award
On-line Searching in IUPAC Nucleotide Sequences
Petr Procházka and Jan Holub
Best Student Paper Award
Method Choice in Gene Set Analysis Has Important Consequences for Analysis Outcome
Farhad Maleki, Katie L. Ovens, Elham Rezaei, Alan M. Rosenberg and Anthony J. Kusalik
Constraint Maximal Inter-molecular Helix Lengths within RNA-RNA Interaction Prediction Improves Bacterial sRNA Target Prediction
Rick Gelhausen, Sebastian Will, Ivo L. Hofacker, Rolf Backofen and Martin Raden
Best Poster Award
Prediction of Malaria Vaccination Outcomes from Gene Expression Data
Ahmad Shayaan, Indu Ilanchezian and Shrisha Rao
BIOINFORMATICS 2018
Best Paper Award
Supervised Classification of Metatranscriptomic Reads Reveals the Existence of Light-dark Oscillations During Infection of Phytoplankton by Viruses
Enzo Acerbi, Caroline Chenard, Stephan C. Schuster and Federico M. Lauro
Best Student Paper Award
Protein Disorder Prediction using Jumping Motifs from Torsion Angles Dynamics in Ramachandran Plots
Jonny Alexander-Uribe, Julián D. Arias-Londoño and Alexandre Perera-Lluna
Best Poster Award
Species Categorization via MicroRNAs - Based on 3’UTR Target Sites using Sequence Features
Malik Yousef, Dalit Levy and Jens Allmer
BIOINFORMATICS 2017
Best Paper Award
Protein Disorder Prediction using Information Theory Measures on the Distribution of the Dihedral Torsion Angles from Ramachandran Plots
Jonny A. Uribe, Julián D. Arias-Londoño and Alexandre Perera-Lluna
Best Student Paper Award
Reconstruction of Mitochondrial Genotypes from Diverse next Generation Sequencing Datasets
Peter Ulz, Michael R. Speicher and Gerhard G. Thallinger
Best Poster Award
A Web- and Cloud- based Service for the Clinical Use of a CAD (Computer Aided Detection) System - Automated Detection of Lung Nodules in Thoracic CTs (Computed Tomographies)
M. E. Fantacci, A. Traverso, S. Bagnasco, C. Bracco, D. Campanella, G. Chiara, E. Lopez Torres, A. Manca, D. Regge, M. Saletta, M. Stasi, S. Vallero, L. Vassallo and P. Cerello
BIOINFORMATICS 2016
Best Paper Award
Highly Robust Classification: A Regularized Approach for Omics Data
Jan Kalina and Jaroslav Hlinka
Best Student Paper Award
BioMed Xplorer - Exploring (Bio)Medical Knowledge using Linked Data
Mohammad Shafahi, Hayo Bart and Hamideh Afsarmanesh
Best Poster Award
Use of GeIS for Early Diagnosis of Alcohol Sensitivity
José Fabián Reyes Román and Óscar Pastor López
BIOINFORMATICS 2015
Best Paper Award
Identifying Aging Genes in the Aging Mouse Hypothalamus Using Gateway Node Analysis of Correlation Networks
Kathryn M. Cooper, Stephen Bonasera and Hesham Ali
Best Student Paper Award
Essential Proteins and Functional Modules in the Host-Pathogen Interactions from Innate to Adaptive Immunity - C. albicans-zebrafish Infection Model
Chia-Chou Wu and Bor-Sen Chen
BIOINFORMATICS 2014
Best Paper Award
A Computational Study to Identify TP53 and SREBF2 as Regulation Mediators of miR-214 in Melanoma Progression
Gianfranco Politano, Alfredo Benso, Stefano Di Carlo, Francesca Orso, Alessandro Savino and Daniela Taverna
Best Student Paper Award
Exploring a Sub-optimal Hidden Markov Model Sampling Approach for De Novo Peptide Structure Modeling
Pierre Thevenet and Pierre Tufféry
BIOINFORMATICS 2013
Best Paper Award
Qualitative Analysis of Gene Regulatory Networks using Network Motifs
Sohei Ito, Takuma Ichinose, Masaya Shimakawa, Naoko Izumi, Shigeki Hagihara and Naoki Yonezaki
Best Student Paper Award
A Methodology for Optimizing the Cost Matrix in Cost Sensitive Learning Models applied to Prediction of Molecular Functions in Embryophyta Plants
S. García-López, J. A. Jaramillo-Garzón, L. Duque-Muñoz and C. G. Castellanos-Domínguez
BIOINFORMATICS 2012
Best Paper Award
A n2 RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE PREDICTION ALGORITHM
Markus E. Nebel and Anika Scheid
Best Student Paper Award
LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETERS PROTOTYPES VALIDATION USING MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS
Edite Figueiras, Rita Campos, Ricardo Oliveira, Luís F. Requicha Ferreira, Frits de Mul and Anne Humeau-Heurtier
BIOINFORMATICS 2011
Best Paper Award
AUTOMATED COUNTING OF YEAST COLONIES USING THE FAST RADIAL TRANSFORM ALGORITHM
Jan Schier and Bohumil Kovář
Best Student Paper Award
KINETIC MODELS AND QUALITATIVE ABSTRACTION FOR RELATIONAL LEARNING IN SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
Gabriel Synnaeve, Katsumi Inoue, Andrei Doncescu, Hidetomo Nabeshima, Yoshitaka Kameya, Masakazu Ishihata and Taisuke Sato
BIOINFORMATICS 2010
Best Paper Award
CO-EVOLUTION IN HIV ENZYMES
Best Student Paper Award
REACTION KERNELS - Structured Output Prediction Approaches for Novel Enzyme Function