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Dr. Gary Fogel Chairs the Inaugural 2004 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Sponsored by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
La Jolla, CA – The 2004 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB) was held October 7-8, 2004 at the Radisson La Jolla Hotel in La Jolla, California. This highly successful inaugural event was sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), one of the 39 societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the largest professional organization in the world.
Dr. Gary Fogel, Vice President of Natural Selection, Inc., served as the general chairman for the event. The symposium was organized by members of the Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee of the IEEE CIS for which Dr. Fogel also serves as committee chairman. Researchers from 14 countries came to San Diego to discuss the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence with application to real-world problems in biology. The topics of the 39 accepted papers presented over the two-day event included gene expression analysis, structure prediction and folding, drug design, molecular sequence alignment, and a variety of other topics. Dr. Russell Doolittle of the University of California, San Diego provided the opening keynote address "Why the Computer Scientist Should Think More Like an Evolutionist."
"A key ingredient of the success of this event was the widespread geographic interest in applying methods of computational intelligence to problems in bioinformatics. The benefits of these approaches are recognized clearly not only by the biotech community but also by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, which sponsored this event," said Dr. Fogel. The Computational Intelligence Society focuses on technologies that support the creation of intelligent machines that imitate biological processes, such as neural computation and evolutionary computation.
Dr. Fogel leads Natural Selection, Inc.'s efforts in bioinformatics, which are centered on many of these same topic areas, including microarray analysis with evolved neural networks, and structure prediction and biological signal recognition with evolutionary computation. Dr. Fogel serves as principal investigator on a grant from the National Science Foundation in the development of pattern recognition methods for microRNA gene detection, and directs other corporate efforts that support the activities of pharmaceutical companies and the National Institutes of Health.
A second CIBCB symposium has already been approved for November 14-15, 2005 to be held again in San Diego with Dr. Fogel again serving as the general chairman. "I'm confident the 2005 symposium will be an even greater success," said Dr. Fogel.
For additional information, please visit www.cibcb.org
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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. Gary B. Fogel
Vice President
Natural Selection, Inc.
3333 N. Torrey Pines Ct.
Suite 200
La Jolla, CA, 92037
tel: (858) 455-6449
fax: (858) 455-1560
gfogel@natural-selection.com
and please visit our web site at http://www.natural-selection.com/.