[alife] Special issue of Information Fusion Journal on NATURAL COMPUTING IN BIOINFORMATICS

[Francesco Masulli]

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Call for papers for a special issue of
Information Fusion
An International Journal on Multi-Sensor, Multi-Source Information Fusion
An Elsevier Publication
on “NATURAL COMPUTING IN BIOINFORMATICS”
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Belur V. Dasarathy, FIEEE

http://www.disi.unige.it/person/MasulliF/ricerca/if06/IFJ-CFP-NCB.pdf


Bioinformatics is a fast growing interdisciplinary scientific area aimed at
managing, analyzing and interpreting information from biological data,
sequences and structures, with promising applications to Biomedicine. Often,
data analysis problems in Bioinformatics concern the fusion of multisensor
outputs, such as in the case of oligonucleotide microarrays or the fusion of
multi-source information, when one must integrate different kinds of
biological data. A very powerful approach to those tasks lies in Natural
Computing, especially for its fast generation of good solutions with the
desired level of precision. Natural Computing is a general term pertaining to
the computing going on in Nature as well as the computing inspired by Nature.
Over the past few years many Natural Computing strategies, ranging from
Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computation, Fuzzy Sets, Support Vector
Machines to Ant Colony Optimization, Particle Swarm Optimization, etc., have
been applied successfully to the solution of complex problems. These include
signal and image processing, classification, clustering, feature selection,
data visualization, data mining, and information fusion.

Manuscripts (which should be original and not previously published or
presented even in a more or less similar form under any other forum)
highlighting recent advances in the applications of Natural Computing based
techniques for information fusion in Bioinformatics, from improving
protein-protein interaction to pharmacogenomic systems, from clustering to
data visualization and mining, are invited. It is necessary that all
submissions relate their work to the overall scope of Information Fusion
Journal.

Topics appropriate for this special issue include, but are not limited to,
Natural Computing applications in the following
aspects of Bioinformatics:
• Sequence homology and Phylogenetics
• Primary genomic sequence
• Protein structure prediction
• Folding, Docking and Drug design
• Gene expression analysis
• Sequential and structural motif discovery
• Gene/Metabolic pathway regulatory network

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically online at
http://ees.elsevier.com/inffus. The corresponding author will have to create
a user profile if one has not been established before at Elsevier.
Simultaneously, please also send without fail an electronic copy (PDF format
preferred), to the Guest Editor(s) listed below.

Guest Editors
Professor Sushmita Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, INDIA.
 Email: sushmita at isical.ac.in
Professor Francesco Masulli, University of Genova, Genova, ITALY. Email:
masulli at disi.unige.it

Deadline for Submission: September 30, 2006

Potential authors are invited to send an email  to the guest editors stating
their  interest to submit a paper.
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