Mar 20, 2000

Natural Selection, Inc. Efforts in Bioinformatics Featured in Scientific Computing World

La Jolla, CA - The February/March 2000 issue of Scientific Computing World, printed in the United Kingdom for a worldwide distribution, highlights the use of evolutionary computation in a variety of biomedical settings. Dr. David Fogel, Chief Scientist of Natural Selection, Inc. and Dr. Gary Fogel, Senior Staff Scientist of Natural Selection, Inc. are featured in the article. Specific applications include screening for malignancies in features from mammograms, pharmaceutical design, gene recognition, and multiple sequence alignment. The article focuses on results from a Phase I SBIR grant to Natural Selection, Inc. through the National Institutes of Health to evolve neural networks for gene recognition. The article, written by consultant editor Vanessa Spedding, also presents an overview of evolutionary computation as a new tool for artificial intelligence.

Natural Selection, Inc.^Ò was founded in 1993 to address complex problems in industry, medicine, and defense. The company possesses unique expertise in computational intelligence techniques, including evolutionary computation, neural networks, and fuzzy logic. The corporation's research efforts support the discovery of new pharmaceuticals, the automated detection and diagnosis of breast cancer from film-screen mammograms, optical character recognition, and a variety of military and industrial projects.

For more information, please contact:

Dr. David B. Fogel,
Executive Vice President & Chief Scientist,
Natural Selection, Inc.,
3333 N. Torrey Pines Ct.,
Suite 200,
La Jolla, CA, 92037
tel: (619) 455-6449
fax: (619) 455-1560
dfogel@natural-selection.com

and please visit our web site at http://www.natural-selection.com/.