Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Current methods for protein secondary-structure prediction based on support vector machines / Hae-Jin Hu, Robert W. Harrison, Phang C. Tai and Yi Pan -- 2. Comparison of seven methods for mining hidden links / Xiaohua Hu, Xiaodan Zhang and Xiaohua Zhou -- 3. Voting scheme-based evolutionary kernel machines for drug activity comparisons / Bo Jin and Yan-Qing Zhang -- 4. Bioinformatics analyses of Arabidopsis thaliana tiling array expression data / Trupti Joshi, Jinrong Wan, Curtis J. Palm, Kara Juneau, Ron Davis, Audrey Southwick, Katrina M. Ramonell, Gary Stacey and Dong Xu -- 5. Identification of marker genes from high-dimensional microarray data for cancer classification / Jiexun Li, Hua Su and Hsinchun Chen -- 6. Patient survival prediction from gene expression data / Huiqing Liu, Limsoon Wong and Ying Xu -- 7. RNA interference and microRNA / Shibin Qiu and Terran Lane -- 8. Protein structure prediction using string kernels / Huzefa Rangwala, Kevin DeRonne and George Karypis -- 9. Public genomic databases : data representation, storage, and access / Andrew Robinson, Wenny Rahayu and David Taniar -- 10. Automatic query expansion with keyphrases and POS phrase categorization for effective biomedical text mining / Min Sang and Il-Yeol Song -- 11. Evolutionary dynamics of protein-protein interactions / L. S. Swapna, B. Offmann and N. Srinivasan -- 12. On comparing and visualizing RNA secondary structures / Jason T. L. Wang, Dongrong Wen and Jianghui Liu -- 13. Integrative analysis of yeast protein translation networks / Daniel D. Wu and Xiaohua Hit -- 14. Identification of transmembrane proteins using variants of the self-organizing feature map algorithm / Mary Qu Yang, Jack Y. Yang and Craig W. Codrington -- 15. TriCluster : mining coherent clusters in three-dimensional microarray data / Lizhuang Zhao and Mohammed J. Zaki -- 16. Clustering methods in a protein-protein interaction network / Chuan Lin, Young-Rue Cho, Woo-Chang Hwang, Pengjun Pei and Aidong Zhang.