Publications

International peer reviewed journals

E. Weitschek, D. Santoni, G. Fiscon, M.C. De Cola, P. Bertolazzi, G. Felici: Next generation sequencing reads comparison with an alignment-free distance. BMC Research Notes, 7:869, 2014.

D. Polychronopoulos*, E. Weitschek*, S. Dimitrieva, P. Bucher, G. Felici, Y. Almirantis: Classification of selectively constrained DNA elements using feature vectors and rule-based classifiers. Elsevier Genomics, 104(2):79-86, 2014. Impact Factor: 2.8 *(joint first authors).

E. Weitschek*, G. Fiscon*, G. Felici: Supervised DNA Barcodes species classification: analysis, comparisons, and results. Biodata Mining, 7(1), 2014. Impact Factor: 1.54 *(joint first authors).

E. Weitschek, R. van Velzen, G. Felici, P. Bertolazzi: BLOG 2.0: a software system for character-based species classification with DNA Barcode sequences. What it does, how to use it. Molecular ecology resources, 13(6):1043-1046, 2013. Impact Factor: 7.4.

E. Weitschek, A.L. Presti, G. Drovandi, G. Felici, M. Ciccozzi, M. Ciotti, P. Bertolazzi: Human polyomaviruses identification by logic mining techniques. Virology journal, 9(1):1-6, 2012 .Impact Factor: 2.04.

R. van Velzen, E. Weitschek, G. Felici, F.T. Bakker: DNA barcoding of recently diverged species: relative performance of matching methods. PloS one, 7(1):e30490, 2012. Impact Factor: 3.73.

M.C. De Cola, G. Felici, D. Santoni, E. Weitschek: Filtering with alignment free distances for high throughput DNA reads assembly. EMBnet.journal, 18(B):23-25, 2012.

I. Arisi, M. D'Onofrio, R. Brandi, A. Felsani, S. Capsoni, G. Drovandi, G. Felici, E. Weitschek, P. Bertolazzi, A. Cattaneo: Gene expression biomarkers in the brain of a mouse model for Alzheimer's disease: mining of microarray data by logic classification and feature selection. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 24(4):721-738, 2011. Impact Factor: 4.17.

P. Bertolazzi, G. Felici, E. Weitschek: Learning to classify species with barcodes. BMC Bioinformatics, 10(Suppl 14), S7, 2009 Impact Factor: 3.02.

Conference proceedings

G. Fiscon*, E. Weitschek*, G. Felici, P. Bertolazzi, S. de Salvo, P. Bramante, M.C. De Cola: Alzheimer's disease patients classification through EEG signals processing. In Proceedings of SSCI 2014 - IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining, pp. 105-112. IEEE, 2014.

E. Weitschek, F. Cunial, G. Felici: Classifying bacterial genomes on k-mer frequencies with compact logic formulas. In Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 25th International Workshop on Biological Knowledge Discovery, pp. 69-73. IEEE, 2014.

E. Weitschek, G. Felici, P. Bertolazzi: Clinical data mining: problems, pitfalls and solutions. In Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 24th International Workshop on Biological Knowledge Discovery, pp. 90-94. IEEE, 2013.

E.Weitschek, G. Felici, P. Bertolazzi: Mala: A microarray clustering and classification software. In Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 23rd International Workshop on Biological Knowledge Discovery, pp. 201-205. IEEE, 2012.

G. Felici, E. Weitschek: Mining logic models in the presence of noisy data. In International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, 2012

Book chapters

E. Weitschek, G. Fiscon, V. Fustaino, G. Felici, P. Bertolazzi: Clustering and Classification Techniques for Gene Expression Profiles Pattern Analysis. In Pattern Recognition in Computational Molecular Biology: Techniques and Approaches, Elloumi M, Zomaya AY eds., Wiley Series in Bioinformatics, Wiley, 2015.

Technical reports

E. Weitschek, G. Fiscon, V. Fustaino, G. Felici, P. Bertolazzi: Analysis of microarray and RNA-sequencing gene expression profiles through clustering and classification techniques. IASI-CNR, R. 14-11, 2014

G. Fiscon, E. Weitschek, P. Bertolazzi, M.C. De Cola , S. De Salvo S, P. Bramanti , G. Felici: EEG signals analysis to detect Alzheimer's disease patients. IASI-CNR, R. 14-10, 2014

E. Weitschek, I. Arisi, G. Felici, P. Bertolazzi,. Knowledge extraction in clinical data. IASI-CNR, R. 13-20, 2013.

E. Weitschek, G. Felici, P. Bertolazzi: Microarray Logic Analyzer Software. IASI-CNR, R. 13-18, 2013.

E. Weitschek, G. Fiscon, G. Felici: Supervised Learning Meets DNA Barcoding Species Classification. IASI-CNR, R. 13-16, 2013.

E. Weitschek, D. Polychronopoulos, Y. Almirantis, G. Felici: Conserved non coding elements classification. IASI-CNR, R. 13-15, 2013.

E. Weitschek, D. Santoni, M.C. De Cola, G. Felici: About similarity of DNA reads. IASI-CNR, R. 13-17, 2013.

G. Felici, E. Weitschek: Mining Logic Models in the Presence of Noisy Data. IASI-CNR, R. 11-25, 2011.

E. Weitschek, R. van Velzen, G. Felici: Species classification using DNA Barcode sequences: A comparative analysis. IASI-CNR, R. 11-07, 2011.

P. Bertolazzi, G.Felici, E. Weitschek, G. Drovandi, A. Lo Presti, M. Ciccozzi, M. Ciotti: Human Polyomaviruses genome analysis by logic mining techniques, IASI-CNR, R. 10-23, 2010.