"Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics" translated to Japanese and published by Tokyo Denki University Press

La Jolla, CA -- The recently published book titled "Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics" (Morgan Kaufmann, 2003). co-edited by Dr. Gary B. Fogel, vice president of Natural Selection, Inc.^®, has now been translated to Japanese (ISBN4-501-53700-0). The book, co-edited with David W. Corne from the University of Exeter 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. Hitoshi Iba, of the University of Tokyo, supervised the translation effort and is also involved in the application of evolutionary computation to bioinformatics problems.

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@natural-selection.com