Xiaohua Hu & Yi Pan 
Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics 
Techniques, Methods, and Applications

The purpose of this edited book is to bring together the ideas and findings of data mining researchers and bioinformaticians by discussing cutting-edge research topics such as, gene expressions, protein/RNA structure prediction, phylogenetics, sequence and structural motifs, genomics and proteomics, gene findings, drug design, RNAi and micro RNA analysis, text mining in bioinformatics, modelling of biochemical pathways, biomedical ontologies, system biology and pathways, and biological database management.

About the author

Xiaohua Hu, Ph D, is Assistant Professor of Computer Science
in the College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel
University. His research has been published in such journals as
IEEE Computer, Knowledge and Information Systems, Journal of
Intelligent Systems, and the International Journal of Applied
Intelligence.

Yi Pan, Ph D, is Chair and Professor of Computer Science
at Georgia State University. His pioneering work in computing using
reconfigurable optical buses has been cited by researchers around
the world. Dr. Pan is co-holder of three United States patents
(pending) and five provisional patents.