Classify the Classifiers: Investigating the Optimum Classification Technique Per Case in Bioinformatics

Event Dates

Mar 04, 2008 - Mar 07, 2008

Location

Barcelona, Spain

Submission Deadline

Oct 20, 2007

CClassify the Classifiers: Investigating the Optimum Classification Technique Per Case in Bioinformatics

A special issue of International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:

** Investigation and ranking of classifiers based on, but not limited to, computational intelligence methods from fields such as:

* Machine learning

* Expert systems

* Artificial neural networks

* Fuzzy logic and systems

* Feature selection

* Dimension reduction

* Pattern classification and recognition

* Possibility theory

* Bayes network and hidden markov models

* Genetic and [hybrid] evolutionary algorithms

* Support vector machines

* Relative vector machine

* Data mining and knowledge discoveries

* Quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithms

* Fusion of systems

* Swarm intelligence and hybrid computational intelligence

* Affinity propagation

* Game theory

** Application and performance evaluation of the classifiers implemented in various cases of bioinformatics research, such as:

* Gene expression

* Microarrays, motif and pattern discovery

* DNA assembly, clustering, and mapping

* Gene identification and annotation

* Biomedical image processing

* Molecular evolution and phylogeny

* Taxonomy, sequence analysis and alignment

* Ecological modelling

* Mathematical immunology modelling and discovery

* Regulatory network and pathway analysis

* Functional and structural genomics

* Cellular metabolism and inter-cellular signalling

* Genome- and proteome-scale modelling

* Analysis of protein interaction with other cellular constituents

* Protein structure and interaction prediction

* Comparative and quantitative proteomics

* Post-translational modification analysis

* Structural proteomics