Machine Learning for Bioinformatics Editors: Yan-Qing Zhang and Jagath C. Rajapakse John Wiley & Sons, 2008 Foreword Preface Chapter 1 Prof. S.Y. Kung (Princeton University, USA), Prof. Manwai Mak (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), “Feature Selection for Genomic and Proteomic Data Mining”. Chapter 2 Rajiv Menjoge and Prof. Roy Welsch (MIT), “Comparing Variable Selection Methods in Gene Selection and Classification of Microarray Data”. Chapter 3 Dr. Hyunsoo Kim and Prof. Haesun Park, (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), “Adaptive Kernel Classifiers using Updating Matrix Decomposition for Biological Data Analysis”. Chapter 4 Shaoning Pang, Ilkka Havukkala, Yingjie Hu, and Prof. Nik Kasabov (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand), “Bootstrapping Consistency Method for Optimal Gene Selection from Microarray Gene Expression Data for Classification Problems”. Chapter 5 Zhenyu Wang, Prof. Vasile Palade (Oxford University, UK) “Fuzzy Gene Mining: A Fuzzy-based Framework for Cancer Microarray Data Analysis”. Chapter 6 Dr. Guo-Zheng Li (Shanghai University, China) and Dr. Jack Y. Yang (Harvard University, USA), “Feature Selection for Ensemble Learning and Its Application”. Chapter 7 Shandar Ahmad, Y. Hemajit Singh (Jamia Millia Islamia University, India), Marcos J. AraúzoBravo, Akinori Sarai (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan), “Sequence-based prediction of residue-level properties in proteins”. Chapter 8 Dongbo Bu (Univ. of Walerloo, Canada and Institute of Computing Technology, China), Shuai Cheng Li (Univ. of Walerloo, Canada), Xin Gao (Univ. of Walerloo, Canada), Libo Yu (Univ. of Walerloo, Canada), Jinbo Xu (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA), Prof. Ming Li (Univ. of Walerloo, Canada), “Consensus Approaches to Protein Structure Prediction”. 1 Chapter 9 Prof. M. Palaniswami, Jayavardhana Rama (University of Melbourne, Australia) “Kernel Methods for Protein Structure prediction”. Chapter 10 Dr. Bo Jin and Prof. Yan-Qing Zhang, (Georgia State University, USA), “Evolutionary Granular Kernel Trees Machines for Protein Subcellular Location Prediction”. Chapter 11 Prof. Li Liao (University of Delaware, USA), “Probabilistic models for long range features in biosequences”. Chapter 12 Dr. Chandan K Reddy, Yao-Chung Weng and Hsiao-Dong Chiang (Cornel University), “Neighborhood Profile Search for Motif Refinement” Chapter 13 Prof. Jagath C. Rajapakse, L. S. HO (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), “Markov/Neural Model for Eukaryotic Promoter Recognition”. Chapter 14 Xudong Xie, Shuanhu Wu and Prof. Hong Yan, (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), “Eukaryotic Promoter Detection Based on Word and Sequence Feature Selection and Combination”. Chapter 15 Dr. Mary Qu-Xuanyuan Yang (NIH, USA), Dr. David C. King (Pennsylvania State University, USA) and Dr. Laura L. Elnitski (NIH, USA), “Feature Characterization and Testing of Bidirectional Promoters in the Human Genome Significance and Applications in Human Genome Research”. Chapter 16 Prof. Byoung-Tak Zhang and Jin-Wu Nam (Seoul National University, Korea), “Supervised Learning Methods for microRNA Studies”. Chapter 17 Phil Hyoun Lee and Prof. Hagit Shatkay (Queen's University, Canada), “Machine Learning for Computational Haplotype Analysis”. Chapter 18 Pritam Chanda, Prof. Aidong Zhang, Murali Ramanathan (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA), “Machine Learning Applications in SNP-Disease Association Study”. Chapter 19 Prof. Stephen Winters-Hilt (University of New Orleans, USA), “Nanopore Cheminformatics based Studies of Individual Molecular Interactions”. Chapter 20 Srivatsava Ranjit Ganta, Dr. John Gilbertson, Dr. Jyotsna Kasturi and Prof Raj Acharya, (Penn State University, USA), “An Information Fusion based framework for biomedical data mining” 2