Table of Contents

• Integrating Life Sciences Data - With a Little GarlicLaura M. Haas, Prasad Kodali, Julia E. Rice, Peter M. Schwarz, William C. Swope. 5-12
• A Schema-based Approach to Building a Bioinformatics Database FederationGraham J. L. Kemp, Nicos Angelopoulos, Peter M. D. Gray. 13-20
• Kleisli, its Exchange Format, Supporting Tools, and an Application in Protein Interaction ExtractionLimsoon Wong. 21-28
• Mouse Genome Informatics in a New Age of Biological InquiryCarol J. Bult, Joel E. Richardson, Judith A. Blake, James A. Kadin, Martin Ringwald, Janan T. Eppig. 29-32
• An XML Repository for Molecular Sequence DataRaymond K. Wong, Franky Lam, Stephen Graham, William M. Shui. 35-42
• Clustering 3D-structures of Small Aminoacid-chains for Detecting Dependence from Their Sequential Context in ProteinsAlexander Hinneburg, Daniel A. Keim, Wolfgang Brandt. 43-49
• GQL: A Reasonable Complex SQL for Genomic DatabasesHasan M. Jamil. 50-59
• The Prometheus Taxonomic DatabaseCedric Raguenaud, Jessie B. Kennedy, Peter J. Barclay. 63-70
• Scientific Data Integration: Wrapping Textual Documents with a Database View Mechanism and an XML EngineZoé Lacroix. 71-76
• Logical and Semantic Database IntegrationJacob Köhler, Matthias Lange, Ralf Hofestädt, Steffen Schulze-Kremer. 77-80
• A Compiler to Transfer Controlled Vocabularies and Ontologies Represented in an O-O Programming Language into Text Mark-up LanguagesJacqueline Renée Reich. 81-88
• An Object Relational Approach to Biomedical DatabasesPhillip C.-Y. Sheu, Brian Cummings, Carl Cotman, Charlie Chubb, L. Hu, Taehyung Wang, Julene Johnson, Scott Mobley, Tom Sitch, Yoshi Inagaki. 91-98
• Gene Mapping by Haplotype Pattern MiningHannu Toivonen, Paivi Onkamo, Kari Vasko, Vesa Ollikainen, Petteri Sevon, Heikki Mannila, Juha Kere. 99-108
• A Graph-based Meta-data Framework for Interoperation between Genome DatabasesKei-Hoi Cheung, Dong-Guk Shin. 109-117
• Achieving Interoperability of Genome DB through Intelligent Web MediatorsHasan M. Jamil. 118-125
• Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction Using Self-Adaptive Genetic AlgorithmAlexei N. Skourikhine. 129-134
• Futuristic Combinatorial Analog Computing Systems: Comparing Systems from Synchros to DNA and BeyondErnest Hibbs. 135-140
• The genetic expressions and both chromosomic breakage and positive circuitsJulio Aracena, S. B. Lamine, Marie-Ange Mermet, Olivier Cohen, Jacques Demongeot. 141-149
• Amplification of perspectives in the use of evolutionary computationJovelino Falqueto, Jorge Muniz Barreto, Paulo Sergio da Silva Borges. 150-157
• Genomic Signature Is Preserved in Short DNA FragmentsPatrick Deschavanne, Alain Giron, Joseph Vilain, Christine Dufraigne, Bernard Fertil. 161-167
• Mining Residue Contacts in ProteinsMohammed Javeed Zaki, Shan Jin, Chris Bystroff. 168-175
• A Heurestic Algorithm for Blocked Multiple Sequence AlignmentTao Jiang, Peng Zhao. 176-183
• A framework for the Automated Reconstruction of Microbial PathwaysArvind K. Bansal. 184-190
• Linguistic Analysis of the Nucleoprotein Gene of Influeenza: A virusAlexei N. Skourikhine, Tom Burr. 193-199
• Selecting Optimum DNA Oligos for MicroarraysFugen Li, Gary D. Stormo. 200-207
• Making genome expression data meaningful: Prediction and discovery of classes of cancer through a connectionist learning approachFrancisco Azuaje. 208-213
• Knowledge discovery of Gene Functions and Metabolic PathwaysSu-Shing Chen. 214-218
• Global Optimization Approaches to MEG Source LocalizationTianzi Jiang, Xiaodong Li, Frithjof Kruggel. 223-230
• Simulation on the Dynamics of Diabetes MellitusFetanet Ceylan Erzen, Gulnur Birol, Ali Cinar. 231-235
• Wearable Computer as a Multi-parametric Monitor for Physiological SignalsJulio C. D. Conway, Claudionor José Nunes Coelho Jr., Diógenes Cecilio da Silva Jr., Antônio Otávio Fernandes, Luis C. G. Andrade, Hervaldo S. Carvalho. 236-242
• Classification and Estimation of Ultrasound Speckle Noise with Neural NetworksMark P. Wachowiak, Adel Said Elmaghraby, Renata Smolíkova, Jacek M. Zurada. 245-252
• On Parameter Estimation for Neuron ModelsJeffrey L. Madden, Zina Ben-Miled, Raymond C. Y. Chin, John Schild. 253-262
• A Retina-like Low Level Vision ArchitectureS. J. Mertoguno, Nikolaos G. Bourbakis. 263-269
• New Generation Intelligent Hearing ProstheticsA. Radhakrishnan, V. Viswanathan, R. Gao, Lefteri H. Tsoukalas, S. Basseas. 270-274
• A New Automatic Circular Decomposition Algorithm Applied to Blood Cells ImageLeticia V. Guimaraes, Altamiro A. Suzim, Junji Maeda. 277-280
• A Global Description of Medical Image with High PrecisionRichard Chbeir, Franck Favetta. 289-296
• Surface Parameterization in Volumetric Images for Feature ClassificationRichard W. I. Yarger, Francis K. H. Quek. 297-303
• Reconstructing Specimens using DIC Microscope ImagesFarhana Kagalwala, Takeo Kanade. 307-315
• General Non-Invasise Shape Reconstruction and recognition method Applied to 3-D External Biological MorphologiesAntonio C. Zimmermann, Armando A. Gonçalves, Jorge Muniz Barreto. 316-321
• FURY: Fuzzy Unification and Resolution Based on Edit DistanceDavid Gilbert, Michael Schroeder. 330-336
• Automated Left Ventricle Boundary DelineationLei Sui, Robert M. Haralick. 339-346
• A Model Based Contour Searching MethodYingjie Tang, Lei He, Xun Wang, William G. Wee. 347-354
• A Deformable Contour Method: Divide and Conquare ApproachXun Wang, William G. Wee. 355-362
• Calcium Homeostasis: A Feedback Control Point of ViewHana El-Samad, Mustafa Khammash. 365-369
• Hierarchical Control for Artificial HeartsJ. R. Boston, James F. Antaki, Marwan A. Simaan. 376-383