Artificial Intelligence Methods And Tools For Systems Biology

by Dubitzky, Werner; Azuaje, Francisco

• ISBN13: 9781402028595
• ISBN10: 1402028598
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-30
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This book provides simultaneously a design blueprint, user guide, research agenda, and communication platform for current and future developments in artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to systems biology. It places an emphasis on the molecular dimension of life phenomena and in one chapter on anatomical and functional modeling of the brain.As design blueprint, the book is intended for scientists and other professionals tasked with developing and using AI technologies in the context of life sciences research. As a user guide, this volume addresses the requirements of researchers to gain a basic understanding of key AI methodologies for life sciences research. Its emphasis is not on an intricate mathematical treatment of the presented AI methodologies. Instead, it aims at providing the users with a clear understanding and practical know-how of the methods. As a research agenda, the book is intended for computer and life science students, teachers, researchers, and managers who want to understand the state of the art of the presented methodologies and the areas in which gaps in our knowledge demand further research and development. Our aim was to maintain the readability and accessibility of a textbook throughout the chapters, rather than compiling a mere reference manual. The book is also intended as a communication platform seeking to bride the cultural and technological gap among key systems biology disciplines. To support this function, contributors have adopted a terminology and approach that appeal to audiences from different backgrounds.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Lazy Learning for Predictive Toxicology based on a Chemical Ontology
Eva Armengol and Enric Plaza	1	(18)
QSAR Modeling of Mutagenicity on Non-Congeneric Sets of Organic Compounds
Uko Maran and Sulev Sild	19	(18)
Characterizing Gene Expression Time Series using a Hidden Markov Model
Sally McClean, Bryan Scotney and Steve Robinson	37	(14)
Analysis of Large-Scale mRNA Expression Data Sets by Genetic Algorithms
Chia Huey Ooi and Patrick Tan	51	(16)
A Data-Driven, Flexible Machine Learning Strategy for the Classification of Biomedical Data
Rajmund L. Somorjai, Murray E. Alexander, Richard Baumgartner, Stephanie Booth, Christopher Bowman, Aleksander Demko, Brion Dolenko, Marina Mandelzweig, Aleksander E. Nikulin, Nicolino J. Pizzi, Erinija Pranckeviciene, Arthur R. Summers and Peter Zhilkin	67	(20)
Cooperative Metaheuristics for Exploring Proteomic Data
Robin Gras, David Hernandez, Patricia Hernandez, Nadine Zangger, Yoan Mescam, Julien Frey Olivier Martin, Jacques Nicolas and Ron D. Appel	87	(20)
Integrating Gene Expression Data, Protein Interaction Data, and Ontology-Based Literature Searches
Panos Dafas, Alexander Kozlenkov, Alan Robinson and Michael Schroeder	107	(22)
Ontologies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Patrick Lambrix	129	(18)
Natural Language Processing and Systems Biology
K. Bretonnel Cohen and Lawrence Hunter	147	(28)
Systems Level Modeling of Gene Regulatory Networks
Martin Stetter, Bernd Schürmann and Mathäus Dejori	175	(22)
Computational Neuroscience for Cognitive Brain Functions
Marco Loh, Miruna Szabo, Rita Almeida, Martin Stetter and Gustavo Deco	197	(20)
Index	217