Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology

Proceed i n gs of the Third In tern a ti onal Con feren ce on In tell i gent Sys tems for Mo l ecular Bi o l ogy Edited byChristopher Rawlings, Dominic Clark, , ,, & 414 pp., index. ISBN 0-929280-83-0 $50.00 softcover The organizing committee can report that the level of interest raised by the First and Second Conferences has been sustained and increased. A distinguished program committee, comprising a cross-section of biologists and computer scientists, who are actively engaged in addressing problems in molecular biology using advanced computational methods, has again been assembled from 8 different countries. The call for papers produced 88 submissions which were of a high standard and which reflected the interna- tional nature of the Conference, in that submissions were received from North America, Europe, Asia and Australasia.

Proceed i n gs of the Second In tern a ti onal Con feren ce on In tell i gent Sys tems for Mo l ecular Bi o l ogy Edited by Russ Altman, Douglas Brutlag, , Richard Lathrop, and David Searls 408 pp., index. ISBN 0-929280-68-7 $45.00 softcover The papers in this interdisciplinary work present breakthroughs in dynamic programming, multiple sequence alignment, the fed- eration of molecular biology databases, hidden Markov models for sequence analysis, constraint satisfaction techniques for map assembly or structure definition, probabilistic modeling of biological structures and sequences, simulation of metabolic processes, heuristic ways to search large hypothesis spaces, the theory of neural networks, energy functions that fold protein structures more accurately, search algorithms for protein conformation, linguistic parsing techniques for sequence analysis, novel map reconstruc- tion algorithms, computational geometry breakthroughs for drug design, robotic applications to molecular structure, and more. Proceed i n gs of the First In tern a ti onal Con feren ce on In tell i gent Sys tems for Mo l ecular Bi o l ogy Edited by Lawrence Hunter, David Searls, and Jude Shavlik 460 pp., index. ISBN 0-929280-47-4 $45.00 softcover The interdisciplinary work in this proceedings represents original biological results as well as pragmatically-inclined applications of computational research, including work in robotics, statistics, and databases.

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