Special session on

Neural Networks applications to Bioinformatics (Sg)
at
IEEE 2006 World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2006) 
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2006)    

Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 16-21, 2006

http://www.wcci2006.org/home.html

  


CALL FOR PAPERS

Description and Scope:

Bioinformatics is a fast growing scientific area aimed at managing,  analyzing and interpreting information from biological data, sequences  and structures. In the past few years, many Computational  Intelligence and  Machine Learning algorithms have been successfully  applied to the solution of complex problems typical of this field,  including signal and image processing, clustering, feature selection, data visualization, and data mining.

This session aims at highlighting recent advances in the applic ations  of Neural Networks techniques to Bioinformatics, from improving  protein-protein  interaction  to pharmacogenomic systems, from clustering  to data visualization and mining.

Organizers:

Francesco Masulli (1) and Roberto Tagliaferri (2)

(1)  Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell'Informazione,
Universita' di Genova and CNISM, Via Dodecaneso 35, 16146 Genova, Italy
email: masulli@disi.unige.it

(2) Dipartimento di Matematica ed Applicazioni,
Università di Salerno, Via Ponte don Melillo, 84084 Fisciano (Sa), Italy
email: rtagliaferri@unisa.it

Important deadlines:

January 31   2006  Paper submission deadline

March   15   2006  Author notification of acceptance or rejection

April   15   2006  Deadline for receipt of final manuscript

Paper submission:

At http://www.wcci2006.org/WCCI-Web_paper_submit.html you'll find the Instruction for Authors and the link to the IJCNN submission site.  

While submitting, at "Main research topic" select 

 "Sg. Neural Networks applications to Bioinformatics (Masulli, Tagliaferri)".


Preliminary program
Session WedMM-13: Sg: Neural Networks Applications to Bioinformatics I
Wednesday, July 19, 1:00PM-3:00PM, Room: Port Hardy, Chair: Francesco Masulli and Roberto Tagliaferri
Time
Paper ID
Title/Author
1:00pm
1518
Classification Error as a Measure of Gene Relevance in Cancer Diagnosis
Rosalia Maglietta, Annarita D'Addabbo, Ada Piepoli, Francesco Perri and Sabino Liuni
1:20pm
1819
Feature Selection for Data Driven Prediction of Protein Model Quality
Alfonso Montuori, Luisa Pugliese, Giovanni Raimondo and Eros Pasero
1:40pm
1933
Supervised Classification and Gene Selection Using Simulated Annealing
Maurizio Filippone, Francesco Masulli and Stefano Rovetta
2:00pm
1978
On Classification Models of Gene Expression Microarrays: The Simpler the Better
Erinija Pranckevieciene and Ray Somorjai
2:20pm
1009
Kernel Based Functional Gene Grouping
Holger Froehlich, Nora Speer, Christian Spieth and Andreas Zell
2:40pm
1533
Predicting HIV-1 T Cell Epitopes Using Bio-basis Function Neural Networks
David Trudgian, Felicia Charles-Johnson and Zheng Rong Yang

Session WedPM-13: Sg: Neural Networks Applications to Bioinformatics II
Wednesday, July 19, 3:15PM-5:15PM, Room: Port Hardy, Chair: Francesco Masulli and Roberto Tagliaferri
Time
Paper ID
Title/Author
3:15pm
1426
An Integrated Soft Computing Approach for Predicting Biological Activity of Potential HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors
Razvan Andonie, Levente Fabry-Asztalos, Sarah Abdul-Wahid, Catharine Collar and Nicholas Salim
3:35pm
1499
Connectionist Modeling of Dynamics of Gene Expression and Reverse Engineering Gene Regulatory Networks
Rajat De and Kasturi Biswas
3:55pm
2001
Computation Intelligence Tools for Modeling and Controlling Pharmacogenomic Systems: Genetic Programming and Neural Networks
Alexandru Floares
4:15pm
2120
Classification Analysis of Surface-enhanced Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectral Serum Profiles for Prostate Cancer
Leif E. Peterson, Ron C. Hoogeveen, Henry J. Pownall and Joel D. Morrisett
4:35pm
1787
Neural Network Modelling of Species Evolution: Loss and Gain in Complete Genome
Alexander Tatuzov and Alexis Tatuzov
4:55pm
1772
Classification and Clustering of Breast Cancer Images
Chandra Bala, Sudhir Nath and Arun Malhothra