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Interoperability of Genome Databases

• Laura M. Haas, Prasad Kodali, Julia E. Rice, Peter M. Schwarz, William C. Swope: Integrating Life Sciences Data - With a Little Garlic. 5-12
• Graham J. L. Kemp, Nicos Angelopoulos, Peter M. D. Gray: A Schema-based Approach to Building a Bioinformatics Database Federation. 13-20
• Limsoon Wong: Kleisli, its Exchange Format, Supporting Tools, and an Application in Protein Interaction Extraction. 21-28
• Carol J. Bult, Joel E. Richardson, Judith A. Blake, James A. Kadin, Martin Ringwald, Janan T. Eppig: Mouse Genome Informatics in a New Age of Biological Inquiry. 29-32

Intelligent Cooperation & Information mining in Bio-DBs

• Raymond K. Wong, Franky Lam, Stephen Graham, William M. Shui: An XML Repository for Molecular Sequence Data. 35-42
• Alexander Hinneburg, Daniel A. Keim, Wolfgang Brandt: Clustering 3D-structures of Small Aminoacid-chains for Detecting Dependence from Their Sequential Context in Proteins. 43-49
• Hasan M. Jamil: GQL: A Reasonable Complex SQL for Genomic Databases. 50-59

Bio-Databases

• Cedric Raguenaud, Jessie B. Kennedy, Peter J. Barclay: The Prometheus Taxonomic Database. 63-70
• Zoé Lacroix: Scientific Data Integration: Wrapping Textual Documents with a Database View Mechanism and an XML Engine. 71-76
• Jacob Köhler, Matthias Lange, Ralf Hofestädt, Steffen Schulze-Kremer: Logical and Semantic Database Integration. 77-80
• Jacqueline Renée Reich: A Compiler to Transfer Controlled Vocabularies and Ontologies Represented in an O-O Programming Language into Text Mark-up Languages. 81-88

Biomedical Databases

• Phillip C.-Y. Sheu, Brian Cummings, Carl Cotman, Charlie Chubb, L. Hu, Taehyung Wang, Julene Johnson, Scott Mobley, Tom Sitch, Yoshi Inagaki: An Object Relational Approach to Biomedical Databases. 91-98
• Hannu Toivonen, Paivi Onkamo, Kari Vasko, Vesa Ollikainen, Petteri Sevon, Heikki Mannila, Juha Kere: Gene Mapping by Haplotype Pattern Mining. 99-108
• Kei-Hoi Cheung, Dong-Guk Shin: A Graph-based Meta-data Framework for Interoperation between Genome Databases. 109-117
• Hasan M. Jamil: Achieving Interoperability of Genome DB through Intelligent Web Mediators. 118-125

Evolutionary Computing

• Alexei N. Skourikhine: Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction Using Self-Adaptive Genetic Algorithm. 129-134
• Ernest Hibbs: Futuristic Combinatorial Analog Computing Systems: Comparing Systems from Synchros to DNA and Beyond. 135-140
• Julio Aracena, S. B. Lamine, Marie-Ange Mermet, Olivier Cohen, Jacques Demongeot: The genetic expressions and both chromosomic breakage and positive circuits. 141-149
• Jovelino Falqueto, Jorge Muniz Barreto, Paulo Sergio da Silva Borges: Amplification of perspectives in the use of evolutionary computation. 150-157

Genomics I

• Patrick Deschavanne, Alain Giron, Joseph Vilain, Christine Dufraigne, Bernard Fertil: Genomic Signature Is Preserved in Short DNA Fragments. 161-167
• Mohammed Javeed Zaki, Shan Jin, Chris Bystroff: Mining Residue Contacts in Proteins. 168-175
• Tao Jiang, Peng Zhao: A Heurestic Algorithm for Blocked Multiple Sequence Alignment. 176-183
• Arvind K. Bansal: A framework for the Automated Reconstruction of Microbial Pathways. 184-190

Genomics II

• Alexei N. Skourikhine, Tom Burr: Linguistic Analysis of the Nucleoprotein Gene of Influeenza: A virus. 193-199
• Fugen Li, Gary D. Stormo: Selecting Optimum DNA Oligos for Microarrays. 200-207
• Francisco Azuaje: Making genome expression data meaningful: Prediction and discovery of classes of cancer through a connectionist learning approach. 208-213
• Su-Shing Chen: Knowledge discovery of Gene Functions and Metabolic Pathways. 214-218

Biomedical Engineering Track

Biomedical Applications

• Tianzi Jiang, Xiaodong Li, Frithjof Kruggel: Global Optimization Approaches to MEG Source Localization. 223-230
• Fetanet Ceylan Erzen, Gulnur Birol, Ali Cinar: Simulation on the Dynamics of Diabetes Mellitus. 231-235
• Julio C. D. Conway, Claudionor José Nunes Coelho Jr., Diógenes Cecilio da Silva Jr., Antônio Otávio Fernandes, Luis C. G. Andrade, Hervaldo S. Carvalho: Wearable Computer as a Multi-parametric Monitor for Physiological Signals. 236-242

Neural and Connectionist Models

• Mark P. Wachowiak, Adel Said Elmaghraby, Renata Smolíkova, Jacek M. Zurada: Classification and Estimation of Ultrasound Speckle Noise with Neural Networks. 245-252
• Jeffrey L. Madden, Zina Ben-Miled, Raymond C. Y. Chin, John Schild: On Parameter Estimation for Neuron Models. 253-262
• S. J. Mertoguno, Nikolaos G. Bourbakis: A Retina-like Low Level Vision Architecture. 263-269
• A. Radhakrishnan, V. Viswanathan, R. Gao, Lefteri H. Tsoukalas, S. Basseas: New Generation Intelligent Hearing Prosthetics. 270-274

Bio-Imaging I

• Leticia V. Guimaraes, Altamiro A. Suzim, Junji Maeda: A New Automatic Circular Decomposition Algorithm Applied to Blood Cells Image. 277-280
• Bahram Parvin, Ge Cong, Gerald Fontenay, John R. Taylor, R. Henshal, Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff: BioSig: A Bioinformatic System for Studying the Mechanism of Intra-Cell Signaling. 281-288
• Richard Chbeir, Franck Favetta: A Global Description of Medical Image with High Precision. 289-296
• Richard W. I. Yarger, Francis K. H. Quek: Surface Parameterization in Volumetric Images for Feature Classification. 297-303

Bio-Imaging II

• Farhana Kagalwala, Takeo Kanade: Reconstructing Specimens using DIC Microscope Images. 307-315
• Antonio C. Zimmermann, Armando A. Gonçalves, Jorge Muniz Barreto: General Non-Invasise Shape Reconstruction and recognition method Applied to 3-D External Biological Morphologies. 316-321
• L. Freire, F. Godinho: Registration by Maximization of Mutual Information: A Cross Validation Study to Access the role of Joint Histogram's Determination in Overall Accuracy. 322-329
• David Gilbert, Michael Schroeder: FURY: Fuzzy Unification and Resolution Based on Edit Distance. 330-336

Searching and Tracking

• Lei Sui, Robert M. Haralick: Automated Left Ventricle Boundary Delineation. 339-346
• Yingjie Tang, Lei He, Xun Wang, William G. Wee: A Model Based Contour Searching Method. 347-354
• Xun Wang, William G. Wee: A Deformable Contour Method: Divide and Conquare Approach. 355-362

Dynamics and control in biomedicine

• B. Paden, J. Antaki: Control Issues in A Magnetically Levitated Left-Ventricular Assist Device.
• Hana El-Samad, Mustafa Khammash: Calcium Homeostasis: A Feedback Control Point of View. 365-369
• R. Sepulchre, M. Gerard, B. Marchand, D. Prieels: Pencil Beam Scanning: a dynamical approach to proton therapy. 370-375
• J. R. Boston, James F. Antaki, Marwan A. Simaan: Hierarchical Control for Artificial Hearts. 376-383