Call for Book Chapters

Series in Studies in Computational Intelligence

 Computational Intelligence in

Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics

October 19, 2007: Volumes Publication details are now available
 

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Arpad Kelemen, Ajith Abraham and Yulan Liang (Eds.), Computational Intelligence in Medical Informatics, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer Verlag, Germany, ISBN: 978-3-540-75766-5, 390 pages, 2008 (Preface).

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April 10, 2007:  List of accepted chapters

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February 05, 2007

Dear Colleagues,

We have received 37 chapters for the proposed call for book chapters focused on 'Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics'. Based on the contents of the accepted chapters, we have decided to divide the contributions into the following two volumes (titles are tentative):

Volume 1: Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics
Volume 2: Computational Intelligence in Medical Informatics

All authors will be notified by February 23, 2007. Please direct all your correspondences to <bioinformatics.book@gmail.com>

Thanks again for your contribution.

Best regards

Editors

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Update

Due to the large number of requests for deadline extension for the upcoming book on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics the editors have decided to make the following deadline extensions:

• Extended deadline for 2-5 page manuscript: August 15, 2006 (closed)

• Notification of Acceptance: September 15,  2006  (closed)

• Full Chapter Submission (final extended deadline): November 30, 2006  (closed)

• Final Notification of acceptance: February 23, 2007

• Final Camera ready chapter submission: April 27, 2007

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Introduction

Information technologies have made a tremendous contribution to the development of bioinformatics research in recent years. But to conquer more complicated tasks such as micro-array data analysis, gene mapping, protein-protein interaction, biochemical pathways, and systems biology, more sophisticated techniques have become necessary. A wide variety of techniques from computational intelligence can be used to interpret information from biological sequences and molecules in a more efficient and effective way.

The Overall Objective of the Book

There exists a need for an edited collection of articles in this cross-disciplinary area. The book aims to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and latest empirical research findings in the area. Readers can benefit from this book in understanding the basics and problems of bioinformatics, as well as the applications of computational intelligence technologies in tackling the problems and the essential research topics in the field.

The Target Audience

The audiences of this book are senior or graduate students major in computer science, computer engineering, biostatistics, or management information system as well as professional instructors and researchers. The book is also written for professionals in bioinformatics who want to understand how computational intelligence techniques can be applied to accelerate bioinformatics research.

Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Bioinformatics: Gene expression analysis, Protein/RNA structure prediction, Phylogenetics, Sequence and structural motifs, Genomics and Proteomics, Gene finding, Drug design, Modeling of biochemical pathways
• Computational Intelligence: neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation, machine learning, adaptive intelligent systems, intelligent software agents
• Summary of Current Research Activities and Future Directions

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

The book is intended to be published in the Springer Verlag, Series - 'Studies in Computational Intelligence'. Please prepare the manuscript using the author guidelines and format given in the following link: Author Guidelines

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before June 30, 2006 , August 15, 2006  a 2-5 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter.

Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by July 31, 2006 September 15, 2006, about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by August 31, 2006 ,  October 30, 2006, November 30, 2006.

The book is scheduled to be published by Springer-Verlag in 2007. Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically (as a PDF file) to one of the Volume editors:

Volume Editors

Arpad Kelemen

Department of Neurology, 

Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center, 

The Jacobs Neurological Institute, 

University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, 

100 High Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 

USA
akelemen@buffalo.edu 

Ajith Abraham

School of Computer Science and Engineering,

Chung-Ang University

221, Heukseok-dong,

Dongjak-gu, Seoul 156-756, Korea

ajith.abraham@ieee.org

Yuehui Chen

School of Information Science and Engineering

Jinan University

Jiwei Road 106, Jinan 250022, P.R. China

yhchen@ujn.edu.cn

Yulan Liang

Department of Biostatistics

University at Buffalo, State University of New York,

yliang@buffalo.edu