Biomat 2008 - International Symposium On Mathematical And Computational Biology

by Rubem P Mondaini (Editor)

Overview

The present volume contains selected contributed papers from the BIOMAT 2008 Symposium and lectures delivered by keynote speakers during the plenary sessions. All chapters are centered on fundamental interdisciplinary areas of mathematical modeling of biosystems, like mathematical biology, biological physics, evolution biology and bioinformatics. It contains new results on the mathematical analysis of reaction-diffusion equations, demographic Allee effects and the dynamics of infection. Recent approaches to the modeling of biosystem structure, comprehensive reviews on icosahedral viral capsids and the classification of biological data via neural networks with prior knowledge, and a new perspective on a theoretical basis for bioinformatics are also discussed.This book contains original results on reaction-diffusion waves: the population dynamics of fishing resources and the effectiveness of marine protected areas; an approach to language evolution within a population dynamics framework; the analysis of bacterial genome evolution with Markov chains; the choice of defense strategies and the study of the arms-race phenomenon in a host-parasite system.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789814271813
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/28/2009
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Preface v

Editorial Board of the BIOMAT Consortium vii

Mathematical Analysis of Reaction-Diffusion Equations

Reaction-Diffusion Waves: Classical Theory and Recent Developments V. Volpert 1

Linear and Non-linear Front Selection for Reaction-Diffusion Equations A. Goriely J. Rose 29

Epidemiological Modelling

Epidemiological Models with Demographic Allee Effect F. M. Hilher 52

Pulse Infection, Control Fixing Time between Infection Events F. Cordova-Lepe E. Gonzdles-Olivares 78

Network Structure and Epidemic Waves in Metapopulation Models V. Colliza F- Gargiulo A. Barrat J. R. Ramasco A. Vespigrtani 91

Modelling of Biosystems Structure

Integral Symmetry Classes of Icosahedral Viral Capsids R. Kemer 114

Recognition of Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Taxa by Image Analysis and Artificial Neural Networks S. R. Doyle A. L. Somma J. Codnia J. E. Ure L. Romanelli F.R. Momo 132

A Study of Hydrophobic Effect on the Protein Folding using Monte Carlo L. P. B. Scott 146

Population Dynamics

Evolution in a Host-Parasite System N. F. Britton 157

A Population Dynamics Approach to Language Evolution J. F. Fontanari 170

Impact and Effectiveness of Marine Protected Area on Economic Sustain-ability C. Jerry N. Rassi 182

Long Distance Dispersal and Allee Effect in a Biological Invasion S. L. Vega W. C. Ferreira 192

Modeling the Risk of Falciparum Malaria for Travelers to Holoendemic Regions E. Massad M. N. Burattini F. A. B. Coutinho 211

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Neural Network Classification with Prior Knowledge for Analysis of Bio-logical Data P. M. Pardalos D. Abbate M. R. Guarracino A. Chinchuluun 223

The Markov Chains (Markov Set-Chains) as a Toolfor Bacterial Genomes Evolution Analysis P- Sliwka M. Dudkiewicz 235

Multi-objectives Approach Applied to the Phylogenetic Inference Problem W. Cancina A. C. B. Delbem 252

Logic Formulas Based Knowledge Discovery and its Applications to the Classification of Biological Data P. M. Pardalos G. Fehci P. Bertolazzi M. R. Guarracino A. Chinchuluun 265

Unsupervised Classification of Tree Structured Objects A. G. Flesia 280

Genetic Codes as Codes: Towards a Theoretical Basis for Bioinformatics J. R. Jungck 300

Modelling Physiological Disorders and Medical Physics

Mathematical Biology: Some Opportunities in Integrative Biology R. Mejia 338

An In silico Approach for the Antigenic Mutation and Immune Memory A. de Castro A. R. Neto D. Alves 351

Software Developed from a Fuzzy Mathematical Model to Predict the Pathological Stage of the Prostate Cancer G. P. Silveira L. L. Vendite L. C. Barros 365

Modeling and Simulation of the Human Eye L. P. Brazil L. H. O. Fernandes L. G. Nonato L. A. V. Carvalho O. M. Bruno 377

Index 393