Emerging Trends in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology

Hamid R. Arabnia is currently a Full Professor of Computer Science at University of Georgia where he has been since October 1987. His research interests include Parallel and distributed processing techniques and algorithms, interconnection networks, and applications in Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (in particular, in image processing, medical imaging, bioinformatics, and other computational intensive problems). Dr. Arabnia is Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine . He has over 300 publications (journals, proceedings, editorship) in his area of research in addition he has edited two titles Emerging Trends in ICT Security (Elsevier 2013), and Advances in Computational Biology (Springer 2012). Professor Quoc-Nam Tran is currently Chair and Full Professor of Computer Science at University of South Dakota. He previously served as Chair and Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Tyler. His previous positions include: Professor of Computer Science at Lamar University; Visiting Professor at Rice University; Scientist at Wolfram Research, Champaign-Urbana ; and Assistant Professor at University of Linz (Linz, Austria). Professor Tran's research interests include: computational methods and algorithmic foundations; theory of Groebner bases; bioinformatics and computational biology. He has published extensively in his areas of expertise. He has co-edited a number of books, including: "Software Tools and Algorithms for Biological Systems" (2011) and "Advances in Computational Biology" (2010) (Springer) Professor Tran has served on a number of editorial boards and has organized and chaired sessions for premier conferences such as the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshop.

• CHAPTER 1 Supervised Learning with the Artificial Neural Networks Algorithm for Modeling Immune Cell DifferentiationCHAPTER 2 Accelerating Techniques for Particle FilterImplementations on FPGACHAPTER 3 Biological Study on Pulsatile Flow of Herschel-Bulkley Fluid in Tapered Blood VesselsCHAPTER 4 Hierarchical k-Means: A Hybrid Clustering Algorithm and its Application to Study Gene Expression in Lung AdenocarcinomaCHAPTER 5 Molecular Classification of N-Aryloxazolidinone-5- carboxamides as Human Immunodeficiency Virus Protease InhibitorsCHAPTER 6 Review of Recent Protein-Protein Interaction TechniquesCHAPTER 7 Genetic Regulatory Networks: Focus on Attractors Of Their DynamicsCHAPTER 8 Biomechanical Evaluation for Bone Allograft in Treating the Femoral Head Necrosis: Thorough Debridement or Not?CHAPTER 9 Diels-Alderase Catalyzing the Cyclization Step In the Biosynthesis of Spinosyn A: Reality or Fantasy?CHAPTER 10 CLAST: Clustering Biological SequencesCHAPTER 11 Computational Platform for Integration and Analysis of MicroRNA AnnotationCHAPTER 12 Feature Selection and Analysis of Gene Expression Data Using Low-Dimensional Linear ProgrammingCHAPTER 13 The Big ORF Theory: Algorithmic, Computational, and Approximation Approaches to Open Reading Frames in Short- and Medium-Length dsDNA SequencesCHAPTER 14 Intentionally Linked Entities: A Detailed Look At a Database System for Health Care InformaticsCHAPTER 15 Region Growing in Nonpictorial Data for Organ-Specific Toxicity PredictionCHAPTER 16 Contribution of Noise Reduction Algorithms: Perception Versus Localization Simulation in the Case of Binaural Cochlear Implant (BCI) CodingCHAPTER 17 Lowering the Fall Rate of the Elderly From WheelchairsCHAPTER 18 Occipital and Left Temporal EEG Correlates of Phenomenal ConsciousnessCHAPTER 19 Chaotic Dynamical States in the Izhikevich Neuron ModelCHAPTER 20 Analogy, Mind, and LifeCHAPTER 21 Copy Number Networks to Guide Combinatorial Therapy of Cancer and Proliferative DisordersCHAPTER 22 DNA Double-Strand Break–Based Nonmonotonic LogicCHAPTER 23 An Updated Covariance Model for Rapid Annotation of Noncoding RNACHAPTER 24 SMIR: A Web Server to Predict Residues Involved in the Protein Folding CoreCHAPTER 25 Predicting Extinction of Biological Systems with CompetitionCHAPTER 26 Methodologies for the Diagnosis of the Main Behavioral Syndromes for Parkinson’s Disease with Bayesian Belief NetworksCHAPTER 27 Practical Considerations in Virtual Screening and Molecular DockingCHAPTER 28 Knowledge Discovery in Proteomic Mass Spectrometry DataCHAPTER 29 A Comparative Analysis of Read Mapping and Indel Calling Pipelines for Next-Generation Sequencing DataCHAPTER 30 Two-Stage Evolutionary Quantification of In Vivo MRS MetabolitesCHAPTER 31 Keratoconus Disease and Three-Dimensional Simulation of the Cornea Throughout the Process of Cross-Linking TreatmentCHAPTER 32 Emerging Business Intelligence Framework for a Clinical Laboratory Through Big Data AnalyticsCHAPTER 33 A Codon Frequency Obfuscation Heuristic for Raw Genomic Data Privacy

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