Knowledge Exploration in Life Science Informatics

Chapter 1 A Pen-and-Paper Notation for Teaching Biosciences

Chapter 2 An Exploration of Some Factors Affecting the Correlation of mRNA and Proteomic Data

Chapter 3 Improving Rule Induction Precision for Automated Annotation by Balancing Skewed Data Sets

Chapter 4 A Randomized Algorithm for Distance Matrix Calculations in Multiple Sequence Alignment

Chapter 5 Extracting Sequential Patterns for Gene Regulatory Expressions Profiles

Chapter 6 Data Analysis of Microarrays Using SciCraft

Chapter 7 Functional Data Analysis of the Dynamics of Gene Regulatory Networks

Chapter 8 Text Mining of Full Text Articles and Creation of a Knowledge Base for Analysis of Microarray Data

Chapter 9 Analysis of Protein/Protein Interactions Through Biomedical Literature: Text Mining of Abstracts vs. Text Mining of Full Text Articles

Chapter 10 Ranking for Medical Annotation: Investigating Performance, Local Search and Homonymy Recognition

Chapter 11 A New Artificial Life Formalization Model: A Worm with a Bayesian Brain

Chapter 12 Teaching Grasping to a Humanoid Hand as a Generalization of Human Grasping Data

Chapter 13 JavaSpaces – An Affordable Technology for the Simple Implementation of Reusable Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms

Chapter 14 Detecting and Adapting to Concept Drift in Bioinformatics

Chapter 15 Feature Extraction and Classification of the Auditory Brainstem Response Using Wavelet Analysis

Chapter 16 Evaluation of Outcome Prediction for a Clinical Diabetes Database

Chapter 17 Cytochrome P450 Classification of Drugs with Support Vector Machines Implementing the Nearest Point Algorithm

Chapter 18 Multiple-Instance Case-Based Learning for Predictive Toxicology

Chapter 19 Modelling and Prediction of Toxicity of Environmental Pollutants

Chapter 20 Modelling Aquatic Toxicity with Advanced Computational Techniques: Procedures to Standardize Data and Compare Models