Call for papers: Special issue of NEUROCOMPUTING on Bioinformatic s

[Branney, Kate (ELS)]

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CALL FOR PAPERS 

NEUROCOMPUTING

An International Journal

published by Elsevier Science B.V., vol. 42-47, 24 issues, in 2002 
ISNN 0925-2312, URL:  http://www.elsevier.com/locate/neucom

Special Issue on Bioinformatics

Paper Submission Deadline: July 31st, 2002


Bioinformatics applies -- simply stated -- computational methods to the
solution of biological problems.
Bioinformatics, genomics, molecular biology, molecular evolution,
computational biology, and affine fields are at the intersection between two
axes: data sequences/physiology and information technology. Sequences
include DNA sequences (gene, genome, organization), molecular evolution,
protein structure, folding, function, and interaction, metabolic pathways,
regulation signaling networks, physiology and cell biology (interspecies,
interaction), as well as ecology and environment. Information technology in
this context includes hardware and instrumentation, computation, as well as
mathematical and physical models. The intersection between two subfields,
one in each axis, generates areas including those known as genome
sequencing, proteomics, functional genomics (microarrays, 2D-PAGE, ...),
high-tech field ecology, genomic data analysis, statistical genomics,
protein structure, prediction, protein dynamics, protein folding and design,
data standards, data representations, analytical tools for complex
biological data, dynamical systems modeling, as well as computational
ecology. Research in these fields comprises property abstraction from the
biological system, design and development of data analysis algorithms, as
well as of databases and data access web-tools. Genome sequencing and
related projects generate vast amounts of data that needs to be analyzed,
thus emphasizing the relevance of efficient methods of data analysis and of
the whole discipline.


The Neurocomputing journal invites original contributions for the
forthcoming special issue on Bioinformatics from a broad scope of areas.
Some topics relevant to this special issue include, but are not restricted
to:

-- Theoretical foundations, algorithms, implementations, and complete
systems
-- Sequence analysis (single, multiple), alignment, annotation, etc.
-- Improvements in databases and web-tools for bioinformatics
-- Novel metrics and biological data preprocessing for posterior analysis
-- Systems biology models and data modeling techniques including statistical
inference, stochastic processes, random walks, Markov chains, hidden Markov
models, motifs, profiles, dynamic programming, pattern recognition
techniques, neural networks, support vector machines, evolutionary models,
tree estimation, etc.
-- Pathway inference, e.g. to determine where to target a drug using gene
expression data and address side effects by providing information on where
else a target metabolite appears.
-- Key applications in diverse fields including bioinformatics, genomics,
molecular biology, molecular evolution, computational biology, drug design,
etc.
Please send two hardcopies of the manuscript before July 31st, 2002, to:


V. David Sanchez A., Neurocomputing - Editor in Chief -
Advanced Computational Intelligent Systems
P.O. Box 60130,
Pasadena, CA 91116-6130, U.S.A.
Street address:
1149 Wotkyns Drive
Pasadena, CA 91103, U.S.A.
Fax: +1-626-793-5120
Email:  vdavidsanchez at earthlink.net


including abstract, keywords, a cover page containing the title and author
names, corresponding author name's complete address including telephone,
fax, and email address, and clear indication to be a submission to the
Special Issue on Bioinformatics.


Guest Editors

Harvey J. Greenberg
Center for Computational Biology
University of Colorado at Denver
P.O. Box 173364
Denver, CO 80217-3364
Phone: (303) 556-8464
Fax:     (303) 556-8550
Email: Harvey.Greenberg at cudenver.edu

Lawrence Hunter
Center for Computational Pharmacology
University of Colorado Health Science Center
4200 E. Ninth Ave.
Denver, CO 80262
Phone: (303) 315-1094
Fax:     (303) 315-1098
Email: Larry.Hunter at uchsc.edu

Satoru Miyano
Human Genome Center
Institute of Medical Science
University of Tokyo
4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan.
Phone:  +81-3-5449-5615
Fax:      +81-3-5449-5442
Email:  miyano at ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Ralf Zimmer
Praktische Informatik und Bioinformatik
Institut fr Informatik
LMU Mnchen
Theresienstrasse 39
D-80333 Mnchen
Phone:  +49-89-2180-4447
Fax:      +49-89-2180-4054
Email:   zimmer at bio.informatik.uni-muenchen.de

V. David Sanchez A., Neurocomputing - Editor in Chief -
Advanced Computational Intelligent Systems
P.O. Box 60130
Pasadena, CA 91116-6130, U.S.A.
Fax: +1-626-793-5120
Email:  vdavidsanchez at earthlink.net