author : Gary B. Fogel

The chapters are collected into five parts: • Introduction to the Concepts of Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Computation • Sequence and Structure Alignment • Protein Folding • Machine Learning and Inference • Feature Selection

Contents

• David W. Corne, Gary B. Fogel.

An Introduction to Bioinformatics for Computer Scientists

• Gary B. Fogel, David W. Corne.

An Introduction to Evolutionary Computation for Biologists

• Jacek Blazewic, Marta Kasprzak.

Determining Genome Sequences from Experimental Data Using Evolutionary Computation

• Joseph D. Szustakowski, Zhipeng Weng.

Protein Structure Alignment Using Evolutionary Computation

• Cedric Notredame.

Using Genetic Algorithms for Pairwise and Multiple Sequence Alignments

• Garrison W. Greenwood, Jae-Min Shin.

On the Evolutionary Search for Solutions to the Protein Folding Problem

• Gary B. Lamont, Laurence D. Merkle.

Toward Effective Polypeptide Structure Prediction with Parallel Fast Messy Genetic Algorithms

• Steffen Schulze-Kremer.

Application of Evolutionary Computation to Protein Folding with Specialized Operators

• Gary B. Fogel, Kumar Chellapilla, David B. Fogel.

Identification of Coding Regions in DNA Sequences Using Evolved Neural Networks

• Emanuel Falkenauer, Arnaud Marchand.

Clustering Microarray Data with Evolutionary Algorithms

• Dan Ashlock, Jim Golden.

Evolutionary Computation and Fractal Visualization of Sequence Data

• Junji Kitagawa, Hitoshi Iba.

Identifying Metabolic Pathways and Gene Regulation Networks with Evolutionary Algorithms

• Bogdan Filipic, Janez Strancar.

Evolutionary Computational Support for the Characterization of Biological Systems

• Laetitia Jourdan, Clarisse Dhaenens-Flipo, El-Ghazali Talbi.

Discovery of Genetic and Environmental Interactions in Disease Data Using Evolutionary Computation

• Mark J. Embrechts, Muhsin Ozdemir, Larry Lockwood, Curt Breneman, Kristin Bennet, Dirk Devogelaere, Marcel Rijkaert.

Feature Selection Methods Based on Genetic Algorithms for in Silico Drug Design

• Jem J. Rowland.

Interpreting Analytical Spectra with Evolutionary Computation