Springer Handbook of Bio-/Neuroinformatics

This Springer Handbook of Bio-/Neuroinformatics is the first published book in one volume that explains together the basics and the state-of-the-art of two major science disciplines in their interaction and mutual relationship, namely: bioinformatics and neuroinformatics. The text is organized in three groups of parts: foundations, bioinformatics and neuroinformatics. Each group consists of three parts: introduction to the subject area; presentation of methods and systems and advanced science and technology. Informatics is the science of information. Part A covers general informatics methods and techniques. They include methods of statistical learning, data mining, machine learning, knowledge engineering, neural networks, evolutionary computation, chaos theory, quantum computation, and many more. These methods have been widely used in bioinformatics and neuroinformatics studies and technological developments.Bioinformatics is the area of science that is concerned with the information processes in biology and the development and applications of methods, tools and systems for storing and processing of biological information in order to facilitate new knowledge discovery.Neuroinformatics is concerned with the information processes in the brain and the nervous system and consequently with the development of methods and system for storing and processing such information, ultimately leading to a better understanding, modeling and curing the brain and the nervous system.

Nikola K Kasabov is currently the Director of the Knowledge Engineering & Discovery Research Institute and Personal Chair of Knowledge Engineering in the School of Information Technology, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.He has published over 350 works, among them journal papers, textbooks, edited research books and monographs, conference papers, book chapters, edited conference proceedings, patents and authorship certificates in the area of intelligent systems, connectionist and hybrid connectionist systems, fuzzy systems, expert systems, speech recognition, bioinformatics, neurocomputing and neural networks.Prof. Kasabov is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and the New Zealand Computer Society, President of the International Neural Network Society (INNS), Past President of the Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA) and also a member of INNS, ENNS, and the IEEE Computer Society. Recently Prof. Kasabov was endowed the title of ‘Guest Professor’ at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.Prof. Kasabov is the General Chairman of a series of biannual international conferences on Neurocomputing in New Zealand. In 2007 Prof. Kasabov was awarded The Bayer Science Innovator Award. He received The Royal Society of New Zealand Silver Medal for contribution to Science and Technology in 2001. He is an Associate Editor of numerous international journals and a leader of a National Research Programme funded by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (FRST)