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Dr. Gary Fogel Chairs the 2nd Annual 2005 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB) Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
San Diego, CA – The 2005 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB) was held November 14-15, 2005 at the Embassy Suites Hotel L Jolla in San Diego, California. This highly successful 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 has also served as committee chairman for the last two years. Researchers from 16 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 74 accepted papers presented over the two-day event included microarray analysis, phylogeny, feature selection in biological data, motif and pattern discovery, taxonomy, high-throughput biotechnology, sequence analysis and alignment, ecological modeling, cell simulation and modeling, molecular computing, and associated theory, and a variety of other topics. Dr. Terry Gaasterland of the Scripps Genome Center at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego provided the opening plenary address "Regulating the regulators: Variations and silencing in transcription factor genes."
Dr. Fogel also presented a paper co-authored by Mars Cheung of Natural Selection, Inc. entitled, "Identification of Functional RNA Genes Using Evolved Neural Networks." The paper presented an approach to discriminate between fRNA genes and noncoding regions in eukaryotes using computational intelligence methods.
"A key ingredient of the continued 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 by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, which was the sole-sponsor for 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. These same methods are now being used by an increasing number of bioinformaticians to problems that are central to 21st century biomedicine. The IEEE CIBCB symposium series is helping bring this community of researchers together on an annual basis.
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.
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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 discovery of important patterns and processes in bioinformatics and medical informatics, computer-assisted diagnosis, 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
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