Dr. Gary B. Fogel, Vice President: Dr. Fogel joined Natural Selection, Inc. in 1998 after completing the Ph.D. in biology from the University of California at Los Angeles with a focus on the evolution and variability of histone proteins. While at UCLA, Dr. Fogel was a Fellow of the Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life and earned several teaching and research awards. Dr. Fogel's current research interests focus on the application of computational intelligence methods to problems in the biomedical sciences. He is currently investigating the use of these approaches for gene expression analysis, gene recognition, drug activity/toxicity prediction, structure analysis and similarity, sequence alignment, and biomedical pattern recognition. Dr. Fogel leads Natural Selection, Inc.'s efforts in chem- and bioinformatics.
Dr. Fogel is a senior member of the IEEE, member of Sigma Xi and the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life. Dr. Fogel currently serves as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, and BioSystems, and is an editorial advisory board member of Ecological Informatics. He co-edited a volume on Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics, published in 2003 (Morgan Kaufmann) and has co-edited Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics, published in 2008 (IEEE Press). Dr. Fogel served as technical co-chair for the 2001 and 2006 Congresses on Evolutionary Computation, program chair for the 2004 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, and as general chair for the 2004 and 2005 IEEE Symposia on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (2007 IEEE CIBCB). He currently serves as finance chair for the 2008 IEEE CIBCB meeting to be held in Sun Valley, Idaho (www.cibcb.org).
Dr. Fogel has recently been re-elected to serve a second term on the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Administrative Committee (AdCom) for the period 2007-2009.
Selected
Publications Ma CYC, Wong SWM, Hecht D and Fogel GB (2006) "Evolved Neural Networks for High Throughput Anti-HIV Ligand Screening," 2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 9284-9291. (.pdf) Fogel GB and Cheung M (2005) "Identification of Functional RNA Genes Using Evolved Neural Networks," 2005 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, San Diego, CA, pp. 31-37. (.pdf) Fogel GB, Weekes DG, Varga G, Dow ER, Craven AM, Harlow HB, Su EW, Onyia JE, and Su C (2005) "A Statistical Analysis of the TRANSFAC Database," BioSystems, Vol. 81, pp. 137-54. (.pdf) Lesnik EA, Fogel GB, Weekes D, Henderson TJ, Levene HB, Sampath R, and Ecker DJ (2005) "Identification of Conserved Regulatory RNA Structures in Prokaryotic Metabolic Pathway Genes," BioSystems, Vol. 80:2, pp. 145-154. (.pdf) Fogel GB, Weekes DG, Varga G, Dow ER, Harlow HB, Onyia JE, and Su C (2004) "Discovery of Sequence Motifs Related to Coexpression of Genes Using Evolutionary Computation," Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 32:13, pp. 3826-3835. (.pdf) Weekes D and Fogel GB (2003) "Evolutionary Optimization, Backpropagation, and Data Preparation Issues in QSAR Modeling of HIV Inhibition by HEPT Derivatives," BioSystems Vol. 72, pp. 149-158. (.pdf) Fogel GB and Corne DW (2003) Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. Fogel GB, Porto VW, Weekes DG, Fogel DB, Griffey RH, McNeil JA, Lesnik E, Ecker DJ, and Sampath R (2002) "Discovery of RNA structural elements using evolutionary computation," Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 30, pp. 5310-5317. (.pdf)
Fogel GB, Andrews PC, and Fogel DB (1998) "On the Instability of Evolutionary Stable Strategies in Small Populations," Ecological Modelling, Vol. 109, pp. 283-294. (.pdf)
For more information please see the NSI Publications Library or email Dr. Fogel at gfogel@natural-selection.com