Dear Colleagues,

 

We are happy to announce that the International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics (IJKDB) is now ready to be launched in Jan 2010.   The table of content of the inaugural issue is attached below. 

 

For IJKDB to become a leading biomedical journal, we ask for your continuing support as authors to contribute high quality manuscripts to share with the community. We hope that the journal will become a useful platform for biomedical scientists and industry practitioners to exchange innovative ideas and experiences in translating bioinformatics and genomic research to the healthcare, agriculture and drug industries.

 

As we celebrate the birth of IJKDB, we seek your assistance to broadcast the availability of this journal to your colleagues, students and other members of the community, and in encouraging them to contribute to the journal. Most of all, we look forward to your paper submissions.  We also welcome guest editors and special issue proposals. 

 

Please feel free to email us if you have any suggestions to make IJKDB a useful resource for our community.

 

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This inaugural issue features six invited papers from leading bioinformatics groups in USA, Japan, UK, India and Italy. The papers cover a wide range of research topics in knowledge discovery in bioinformatics:

 

ORIGINAL PAPERS

 

1. Characterization and Classification of Local Protein Surfaces Using Self-Organizing Map

Lee Sael1 and Daisuke Kihara2,1,3*

1 Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, USA.

2 Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, USA.

3 Markey Center for Structural Biology, Purdue University, USA.

 

2. Finding Minimum Reaction Cuts of Metabolic Networks under a Boolean Model Using Integer Programming and Feedback Vertex Sets

Takeyuki Tamura1, Kazuhiro Takemoto2, Tatsuya Akutsu3

1 Bioinformatics Center, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan

2 Department of Computational Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan

3 Bioinformatics Center, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan

 

3. Prediction of Protein-Protein Interactions between Human Host and Two Mycobacterial Organisms

Oruganty Krishnadev, Shveta Bisht and Narayanaswamy Srinivasan

Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, India

 

4. Mapping Affymetrix Microarray Probes to the Rat Genome via a Persistent Index

Susan Fairley1 , John D. McClure2 , Neil Hanlon2 , Rob Irving1 , Martin W. McBride2 , Anna F. Dominiczak2 and Ela Hunt3

1 Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK

2 BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK

3 Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XH, UK

 

5. A Transfer Learning Approach and Selective Integration of Multiple Types of Assays for Biological Network Inference

Tsuyoshi Kato1,2, Kinya Okada3, Hisashi Kashima4, and Masashi Sugiyama5

1 AIST Computational Biology Research Center, Japan.

2 Center for Informational Biology, Ochanomizu University, Japan.

3 KO Institute for Medical Bioinformatics, Japan.

4 IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan.

5 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Japan.

 

 

REVIEWS AND TUTORIALS

 

6. New Trends in Graph Mining: Structural and Node-colored Network Motifs

Francesco Bruno, Luigi Palopoli and Simona E. Rombo

DEIS, Università della Calabria, Italy

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Xiao-Li Li and See-Kiong Ng

Editors-in-Chief

International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics (IJKDB)

http://www.igi-global.com/ijkdb (Journal website)

http://datam.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/ijkdb/ (Journal submission website)

 

International Advisory Board

Philip E. Bourne, University of California San Diego, USA
Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo, Japan
George Perry, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Anna Tramontano, Sapienza University, Italy 

Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

 

Associate Editors

Zhang Aidong, State University of New York at Buffalo (UB), USA
Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan
Peter Clote, Boston College, USA
Eytan Domany, Weizmann Institute of Science, Isreal
Wen-Lian Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Igor Jurisica, University of Toronto, Canada
Samuel Kaski, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University, USA
Hiroshi Mamitsuka, Kyoto University, Japan
George Perry, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Narayanaswamy Srinivasan, Indian Institute of Science, India
Alfonso Valencia, National Cancer Research Center, Spain

Jason T.L. Wang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong, China
Wei Wang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Mohammed J. Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA