Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Gene Expression Analysis and Systems Biology -- 1. Hybrid of Neural Classifier and Swarm Intelligence in Multiclass Cancer Diagnosis with Gene Expression Signatures / Rui Xu, Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos and Donald C. Wunsch II -- 2. Classifying Gene Expression Profiles with Evolutionary Computation / Jin-Hyuk Hong and Sung-Bae Cho -- 3. Finding Clusters in Gene Expression Data Using EvoCluster / Patrick C. H. Ma, Keith C. C. Chan and Xin Yao -- 4. Gene Networks and Evolutionary Computation / Jennifer Hallinan -- Pt. 2. Sequence Analysis and Feature Detection -- 5. Fuzzy-Granular Methods for Identifying Marker Genes from Microarray Expression Data / Yuanchen He, Yuchun Tang, Yan-Qing Zhang and Rajshekhar Sunderraman -- 6. Evolutionary Feature Selection for Bioinformatics / Laetitia Jourdan, Clarisse Dhaenens and El-Ghazali Talbi -- 7. Fuzzy Approaches for the Analysis CpG Island Methylation Patterns / Ozy Sjahputera, Mihail Popescu, James M. Keller and Charles W. Caldwell -- Pt. 3. Molecular Structure and Phylogenetics -- 8. Protein-Ligand Docking with Evolutionary Algorithms / Rene Thomsen -- 9. RNA Secondary Structure Prediction Employing Evolutionary Algorithms / Kay C. Wiese, Alain A. Deschenes and Andrew G. Hendriks -- 10. Machine Learning Approach for Prediction of Human Mitochondrial Proteins / Zhong Huang, Xuheng Xu and Xiaohua Hu -- 11. Phylogenetic Inference Using Evolutionary Algorithms / Clare Bates Congdon -- Pt. 4. Medicine -- 12. Evolutionary Algorithms for Cancer Chemotherapy Optimization / John McCall, Andrei Petrovski and Siddhartha Shakya -- 13. Fuzzy Ontology-Based Text Mining System for Knowledge Acquisition, Ontology Enhancement, and Query Answering from Biomedical Texts / Lipika Dey and Muhammad Abulaish.