LA JOLLA, Calif., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2004 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB) was held October 7-8, 2004 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, and molecular sequence alignment. 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 this event’s success was the widespread geographic interest in applying methods of computational intelligence to problems in bioinformatics. The benefits of these approaches are recognized by both the biotech community and the IEEE CIS, the event sponsor,” said Dr. Fogel. The CIS 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 include 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 been approved for November 14-15, 2005 with Dr. Fogel again serving as the general chairman.
Natural Selection, Inc.(R) 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 And please visit our web site at http://www.natural-selection.com/.
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CONTACT: Dr. Gary B. Fogel, Vice President of Natural Selection, Inc.,+1-858-455-6449, or fax, +1-858-455-1560, gfogel@natural-selection.com
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