Information Processign in Cells and Tissues: 9th International Conference, IPCAT 2012, Cambridge, UK, March 31 – April 2, 2012. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Using Artificial Epigenetic Regulatory Networks to Control Complex Tasks within Chaotic Systems....Pages 1-11
A Gene Regulatory Network Simulation of Heterosis....Pages 12-16
Comparing Discrete and Piecewise Affine Differential Equation Models of Gene Regulatory Networks....Pages 17-24
Automatic Inference of Regulatory and Dynamical Properties from Incomplete Gene Interaction and Expression Data....Pages 25-30
CRISPR Transcript Processing: An Unusual Mechanism for Rapid Production of Desired Molecules....Pages 31-34
A Comprehensive Computational Model to Simulate Transcription Factor Binding in Prokaryotes....Pages 35-37
Evolved Artificial Signalling Networks for the Control of a Conservative Complex Dynamical System....Pages 38-49
The Effect of Membrane Receptor Clustering on Spatio-temporal Cell Signalling Dynamics....Pages 50-61
Systems Biology Analysis of Kinase Inhibitor Protein Target Profiles in Leukemia Treatments....Pages 62-66
Multispecific Interactions in Enzymatic Signalling Cascades....Pages 67-73
Role of Physico-chemical Properties of Amino Acids in Protein’s Structural Organization: A Network Perspective....Pages 74-81
Tailored Strategies for the Analysis of Metabolomic Data....Pages 82-89
Evolving Locomotion for a Simulated 12-DOF Quadruped Robot....Pages 90-98
Predictive Modelling of Stem Cell Differentiation and Apoptosis in C. elegans ....Pages 99-104
Criticality of Spatiotemporal Dynamics in Contact Mediated Pattern Formation....Pages 105-116
The Vasopressin System – Asynchronous Burst Firing as a Signal Encoding Mechanism....Pages 117-130
The Effective Calcium/Calmodulin Concentration Determines the Sensitivity of CaMKII to the Frequency of Calcium Oscillations....Pages 131-135
The Effect of Different Types of Synaptic Plasticity on the Performance of Associative Memory Networks with Excitatory and Inhibitory Sub-populations....Pages 136-142
Simulating Neurons in Reaction-Diffusion Chemistry....Pages 143-149
Extending an Established Simulation: Exploration of the Possible Effects Using a Case Study in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis....Pages 150-161
Human Uterine Excitation Patterns Leading to Labour: Synchronization or Propagation?....Pages 162-176
Evolving Computational Dynamical Systems to Recognise Abnormal Human Motor Function....Pages 177-182
Heat-Maps and Visualization for Heterogeneous Biomedical Data Based on Information Distance Geometry....Pages 183-187
Bio-inspired Information Processing Applied to Engineering Systems....Pages 188-199
Understanding the Regulation of Predatory and Anti-prey Behaviours for an Artificial Organism....Pages 200-211
Closing the Gap between Life and Physics....Pages 212-215
Algebraic Analysis of the Computation in the Belousov-Zhabotinksy Reaction....Pages 216-224
Improving Transcription Factor Binding Site Predictions by Using Randomised Negative Examples....Pages 225-237
Finding the Minimal Gene Regulatory Function in the Presence of Undefined Transitional States Using a Genetic Algorithm....Pages 238-249
Extracting Tailored Protein Complexes from Protein-Protein Interaction Networks....Pages 250-263
A Parallel Algorithm for Multiple Biological Sequence Alignment....Pages 264-276
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