Monday, June 05, 2006
GECCO lineup looks good
The preliminary schedule for the GECCO conference (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference) is posted here and it looks like another winner. Even years are typically slow ones, but conference registration is ahead of plans and it looks as though attendance will keep pace with recent conferences. More information about registration can be found here.
Thursday, June 01, 2006
More philosophy of engineering
Bioinformatics package uses GAs
Bruker Daltonics ClinProTools 2.1 uses genetic algorithms and other techniques for biomarker panel analysis, biofluid profiling, multivariate data analysis of large sample cohorts, classical statistics and sample classification (see here):
ClinProTools 2.1 now includes many additional features for data analysis and visualization: the new proprietary Supervised Neural Network(TM) algorithm allows a third independent multiclass, multivariate analysis approach, complementing the company's existing Support Vector Machine and Modified Genetic Algorithm. Furthermore, it supports univariate peak statistics and a proprietary QuickClassifier (TM) algorithm. In addition to these supervised approaches, ClinProTools 2.1 also includes Principle Component Analysis (PCA) for unsupervised data analysis.
More information is available at the company's web site (here).
Of mice and GAs
For a paper on using genetic algorithms to simulate rodent populations, see here.
