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“Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics” published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc.
La Jolla, CA -- Dr. Gary B. Fogel, senior staff scientist of Natural Selection, Inc.®, has co-edited a new book titled “Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics”
(ISBN: 1558607978) published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., which is now available and can be purchased via amazon.com. The book, co-edited with Dr. David W. Corne from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, covers a wide assortment of applications of evolutionary computation to problems in biology, specifically bioinformatics. These problems include DNA sequencing, protein folding, gene and protein classification, drug targeting, drug design, data mining and visualization. Natural Selection, Inc. technical staff also contributed a chapter entitled “Identification of Coding Regions in DNA Sequences Using Evolved Neural Networks.” Dr. Fogel remarked “This is one of the first books to bridge the fields of bioinformatics and evolutionary computation, and it will help lead to tackling more complex challenges in bioinformatics with computational intelligence techniques.”Natural Selection, Inc.® 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,
Chief Executive Officer,
Natural Selection, Inc.,
3333 N. Torrey Pines Ct.,
Suite 200,
La Jolla, CA, 92037
tel: (858) 455-6449
fax: (858) 455-1560
dfogel [at] natural-selection.com
and please visit our web site at http://www.natural-selection.com/.