Intelligent systems for molecular biology: review of the first international conference
Biomedical informatics Unit, Imperial Cancer Research Fund P0 Box 123. Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PX, UK
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This review provides a description of the background to the first international conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and a problem-oriented overview of the papers presented. It focuses on genome analysis, gene identification, protein and RNA structure prediction and function, the modelling of biochemical pathways and data and knowledge bases. The range and quality of papers indicates that intelligent systems is emerging as an important sub-field of computational applications in the biological sciences.
Received on January 15, 1994; accepted on January 22, 1994