Patterns in bioinformatics

Abstract

This thesis has been elaborated during my activity in the Department of Computers and Information Technology of the Politehnica University Timişoara, Romania. I address my special thanks to my PhD supervisor, Prof.Univ.em.dr.eng. Horia Ciocârlie for accepting me as a PhD candidate and for guiding and supporting me throughout my lengthy PhD research studies. At the same time, a special thank you is addressed to Sl.Dr.Eng. Versavia Maria Ancușa who has always encouraged me to keep moving forward even when things were difficult, and taught me how to always find a way to overcome tough situations. This collaboration slowly turned into friendship and that is more than I could have wished for. I also wish to thank the group of medical specialists from “Victor Babeș” Infectious Diseases and Pneumoftiziology Clinical Hospital Timișoara, which have become part of our team while striving to make sense of the immense quantity of medical data that needed to be processed and understood: Dr. Ana Adriana Trușculescu, Dr. Diana Manolescu, Prof. Dr. Cristian Iulian Oancea. Finally, I am extremely grateful of my family and friends which have been supporting me and encouraging me all along the way and without which I could not have gotten so far.