From dw2237 at wayne.edu Mon Nov 2 06:41:51 2009 From: dw2237 at wayne.edu (Michele Donato) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 06:41:51 -0500 (EST) Subject: [BiO BB] IEEE CIBCB 2010 Call for Papers Message-ID: <1342347122.55391257162111204.JavaMail.root@starship.merit.edu> Call for Papers: IEEE CIBCB 2010 2010 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 2-5 May 2010, Montreal, Canada IMPORTANT DATES: Special Session Proposals Due: 15 Nov. 2009 Tutorial Proposals Due: 15 Nov. 2009 Paper submission deadline: 15 Dec. 2009 Author notification: 15 Feb. 2010 Camera-ready paper deadline: 15 Mar. 2010 Conference: 2-5 May 2010 ----------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE: This symposium will bring together top researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in the field of Computational Intelligence and its application to real world problems in biology, bioinformatics, computational biology, chemical informatics, bioengineering and related fields. Computational Intelligence (CI) approaches includes artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, hybrid approaches and other emerging techniques. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - high-throughput data analysis (microarrays, mass spectrometry, EST, etc.) - molecular docking and drug design - RNA and protein folding and structure prediction - metabolic pathway analysis - analysis of large biological data sets - single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis - immuno- and chemo-informatics - molecular evolution and phylogenetics - bio and medical ontologies - microRNA gene expression analysis - molecular sequence alignment and analysis - systems and synthetic biology - emergent properties in complex biological system - computational proteomics - motif and signal detection - medical image analysis and pattern recognition - in-silico optimization of biological systems The use of computational intelligence must play a substantial role in submitted papers. Submissions will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be indexed in IEEE eXplore. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than eight (8) pages in IEEE conference format, including results, figures and references. Submission details can be found on the symposium web site at: www.cibcb.org/CIBCB2010. Authors are expected to present their paper at the symposium. CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS and TUTORIALS: Consult the CIBCB'10 symposium web site for instructions on proposing a special session or tutorial. Papers for special sessions must have significant computational intelligence content. LOCATION: The symposium will take place at the Hotel Omni Mont-Royal located in beautiful downtown Montreal close to the University of Montreal and McGill University ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair L. Gwenn Volkert Program Chair: Dan Ashlock Technical Co-Chairs: Francesco Masulli Mihail Popescu Clare Bates Congdon Publicity Chair: Sorin Draghici Proceedings Chair: Chengpeng (Charlie) Bi Finance Chair: Gary Fogel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Direct your questions or requests for additional information to: L. Gwenn Volkert ? volkert at cs.kent.edu - CIBCB 2010 General Chair or Daniel Ashlock - dashlock at uoguelph.ca - CIBCB 2010 Program Chair or visit: http://www.cibcb.org/CIBCB10 http://www.cibcb.org/files/cibcb2010cfp.pdf From djwild at indiana.edu Tue Nov 3 11:00:29 2009 From: djwild at indiana.edu (David Wild) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 11:00:29 -0500 Subject: [BiO BB] Indiana Cheminformatics Education Portal In-Reply-To: <5eda63310911020935n744f78e8q7878561176859544@mail.gmail.com> References: <5eda63310911020935n744f78e8q7878561176859544@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5eda63310911030800v577eead8q15ceb35f68df33de@mail.gmail.com> All, Over the past few years, we have been building a graduate curriculum in cheminformatics at Indiana University with an emphasis on distance education, and in particular making cheminformatics learning as accessible as possible for people in other fields such as bioinformatics. In the process, we have generated a fair body of learning materials for cheminformatics. In the next couple of years we hope to make a good portion of these materials freely available in wiki format under a Creative Commons noncommercial share-alike license (meaning they can be freely used for any noncommercial purpose, so long as they are attributed and any derivative materials are made available under a similar license). To facilitate this, we have created a wiki site at *http://icep.wikispaces.com* as a central point to make these materials available. Currently, the site is fairly scant, but we are planning on building a reasonably comprehensive set of introductory cheminformatics materials by Christmas, and then to start working on converting some more advanced materials next year. Do please let me know (i) if you find this site useful, (ii) any corrections, and (ii) any suggestions as to how we might develop it further and make it as useful as possible Thanks! David ____________________________________________________ Dr. David J. Wild, djwild at indiana.edu, http://djwild.info Assistant Professor of Informatics & Computing Director of Cheminformatics Program School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University 901 E. 10th St., Bloomington, IN 47408 From dan.bolser at gmail.com Thu Nov 5 04:28:38 2009 From: dan.bolser at gmail.com (Dan Bolser) Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 09:28:38 +0000 Subject: [BiO BB] Indiana Cheminformatics Education Portal In-Reply-To: <5eda63310911030800v577eead8q15ceb35f68df33de@mail.gmail.com> References: <5eda63310911020935n744f78e8q7878561176859544@mail.gmail.com> <5eda63310911030800v577eead8q15ceb35f68df33de@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <2c8757af0911050128k799b337er7b65fb2ca4c4de48@mail.gmail.com> Cheers David, I'll look forward to seeing what you produce. At some point I was planning to build a medicinal informatics 'resource archive' within the Bioinformatics.Org wiki . This would build on a very old (static) project hosted at Bioinformatics.Org called 'The Structural Classification of Ligands' or SCOL. * http://www.bioinformatics.org/wiki/ * http://www.bioinformatics.org/scol/ If you're not too far down the line with wikispaces, you may consider switching to a wiki project within Bioinformatics.Org. The main attraction for me (apart from being free as in beer / free as in speech) is the Semantic MediaWiki software that allows the wiki to be used as a semantic web enabled 'community database', which I find quite exciting. http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki Best of luck with the project! Dan. 2009/11/3 David Wild > > All, > > Over the past few years, we have been building a graduate curriculum in > cheminformatics at Indiana University with an emphasis on distance > education, and in particular making cheminformatics learning as accessible > as possible for people in other fields such as bioinformatics. In the > process, we have generated a fair body of learning materials for > cheminformatics. > > In the next couple of years we hope to make a good portion of these > materials freely available in wiki format under a Creative Commons > noncommercial share-alike license (meaning they can be freely used for any > noncommercial purpose, so long as they are attributed and any derivative > materials are made available under a similar license). To facilitate this, > we have created a wiki site at *http://icep.wikispaces.com* as a central > point to make these materials available. > > Currently, the site is fairly scant, but we are planning on building a > reasonably comprehensive set of introductory cheminformatics materials by > Christmas, and then to start working on converting some more advanced > materials next year. > > Do please let me know (i) if you find this site useful, (ii) any > corrections, and (ii) any suggestions as to how we might develop it further > and make it as useful as possible > > Thanks! > > David > ____________________________________________________ > > Dr. David J. Wild, djwild at indiana.edu, http://djwild.info > Assistant Professor of Informatics & Computing > Director of Cheminformatics Program > School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University > 901 E. 10th St., Bloomington, IN 47408 > _______________________________________________ > BBB mailing list > BBB at bioinformatics.org > http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb From vipin.skb at gmail.com Thu Nov 5 02:25:04 2009 From: vipin.skb at gmail.com (Vipin Thomas) Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:55:04 +0530 Subject: [BiO BB] Bioinformatica Indica 2010 Message-ID: <8284f78f0911042325u7eb9e39fs2dc368b4cb5bcc75@mail.gmail.com> *Bioinformatica Indica 2010- International Symposium on Bioinformatics/Computational Biology* The DBT BIF centre at the Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Kerala ( http://www.cbi.keralauniversity.edu/) is organizing an International Symposium christened Bioinformatica Indica 2010, scheduled to be held from 11-13th of January 2010. This is a sequel to Bioinformatica Indica 2008, which received an overwhelming response from academia and research community. The focus of the Symposium is on Computational Biology, Structural Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. The event is aimed at providing an opportunity for the researchers in these fields to come together and share their research ideas, paving way for the development of one of the most significant and emerging areas in science and technology. In addition, the climate in Kerala, ?God?s Own Country? will be at its peak in January, offering a memorable retreat. *Confirmed Speakers* 1. Prof. Alessandro Giuliani, TCE Laboratory, Instituto Superiore di Sanita? Roma, Italy. 2. Dr. Pawan K. Dhar, Editor-in-Chief, Systems and Synthetic Biology Journal, Riken Yokohama Institute, Japan. 3. Dr. Chandra Verma, Head, Biomolecular Modeling and Design Division, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore. 4. Dr. P.R. Sudhakaran, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Kerala, India. 5. Dr. Clif Kussmaul, Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania, USA Fulbright Visiting Professor, Centre for Bioinformatics, UoK. 6. Dr. P. Kangueane, Professor, Bioinformatics & Biotechnology, The Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology (AIMST) University, Malaysia. *Call for Posters* We invite Posters on latest research in traditional as well as advanced areas of bioinformatics/computational biology including genomics, transcriptomics (especially miRNA), proteomics, metabolomics, structural bioinformatics, drug discovery, immunoinformatics, systems biology and synthetic biology. Guidelines for submission are available on the website. Unique Opportunity: The expert committee may select best three posters based on their scientific value. The three selected contestants may be invited to make oral presentations(15 minutes duration), on the work submitted. *Important Dates * 20/12/2009- Online registration ends. 15/12/2009- Last date for Poster submission. 31/12/2009- Last date for acceptance of DD/Cheque. *More Information * Website- http://www.cbi.keralauniversity.edu/) Email- bioindica at gmail.com Phone- +91-471-2412759 Mobile- +91-9895429350 best regards VIPIN -- VIPIN THOMAS Centre for Bioinformatics Thiruvananthapuram INDIA- 695 581 Ph: 91-9895429350 From djwild at indiana.edu Thu Nov 5 09:02:46 2009 From: djwild at indiana.edu (David Wild) Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 09:02:46 -0500 Subject: [BiO BB] Indiana Cheminformatics Education Portal In-Reply-To: <8569_1257413374_nA59TWgu023583_2c8757af0911050128k799b337er7b65fb2ca4c4de48@mail.gmail.com> References: <5eda63310911020935n744f78e8q7878561176859544@mail.gmail.com> <5eda63310911030800v577eead8q15ceb35f68df33de@mail.gmail.com> <8569_1257413374_nA59TWgu023583_2c8757af0911050128k799b337er7b65fb2ca4c4de48@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5eda63310911050602x3299d464n6918f4d5813acad6@mail.gmail.com> Dan, thanks a lot for the links. I was unaware of the semantic mediawiki project which looks especially interesting I could probably export the pages in wikitext format and upload them to the bioinformatics.org wiki - I will look into this David ____________________________________________________ Dr. David J. Wild, djwild at indiana.edu, http://djwild.info Assistant Professor of Informatics & Computing Director of Cheminformatics Program School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University 901 E. 10th St., Bloomington, IN 47408 On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Dan Bolser wrote: > Cheers David, > > I'll look forward to seeing what you produce. > > At some point I was planning to build a medicinal informatics > 'resource archive' within the Bioinformatics.Org wiki . This would > build on a very old (static) project hosted at Bioinformatics.Org > called 'The Structural Classification of Ligands' or SCOL. > > * http://www.bioinformatics.org/wiki/ > * http://www.bioinformatics.org/scol/ > > > If you're not too far down the line with wikispaces, you may consider > switching to a wiki project within Bioinformatics.Org. The main > attraction for me (apart from being free as in beer / free as in > speech) is the Semantic MediaWiki software that allows the wiki to be > used as a semantic web enabled 'community database', which I find > quite exciting. > > http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki > > > Best of luck with the project! > Dan. > > 2009/11/3 David Wild > > > > All, > > > > Over the past few years, we have been building a graduate curriculum in > > cheminformatics at Indiana University with an emphasis on distance > > education, and in particular making cheminformatics learning as > accessible > > as possible for people in other fields such as bioinformatics. In the > > process, we have generated a fair body of learning materials for > > cheminformatics. > > > > In the next couple of years we hope to make a good portion of these > > materials freely available in wiki format under a Creative Commons > > noncommercial share-alike license (meaning they can be freely used for > any > > noncommercial purpose, so long as they are attributed and any derivative > > materials are made available under a similar license). To facilitate > this, > > we have created a wiki site at *http://icep.wikispaces.com* as a central > > point to make these materials available. > > > > Currently, the site is fairly scant, but we are planning on building a > > reasonably comprehensive set of introductory cheminformatics materials by > > Christmas, and then to start working on converting some more advanced > > materials next year. > > > > Do please let me know (i) if you find this site useful, (ii) any > > corrections, and (ii) any suggestions as to how we might develop it > further > > and make it as useful as possible > > > > Thanks! > > > > David > > ____________________________________________________ > > > > Dr. David J. Wild, djwild at indiana.edu, http://djwild.info > > Assistant Professor of Informatics & Computing > > Director of Cheminformatics Program > > School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University > > 901 E. 10th St., Bloomington, IN 47408 > > _______________________________________________ > > BBB mailing list > > BBB at bioinformatics.org > > http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb > > _______________________________________________ > BBB mailing list > BBB at bioinformatics.org > http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb > From isbra-l at engr.uconn.edu Sun Nov 15 19:06:28 2009 From: isbra-l at engr.uconn.edu (ISBRA Symposium Announcements) Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:06:28 -0500 (EST) Subject: [BiO BB] [ISBRA-L] ISBRA'10 First Call for Papers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 6th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA'10) May 23-26, 2010 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA http://www.cs.gsu.edu/isbra10/ The International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA) provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and results among researchers, developers, and practitioners working on all aspects of bioinformatics and computational biology and their applications. Submissions presenting original research are solicited in all areas of bioinformatics and computational biology, including the development of experimental or commercial systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Biomedical databases and data integration * Biomolecular imaging * Bio-ontologies * Comparative genomics * Computational genetic epidemiology * Computational proteomics * Data mining and visualization * Gene expression analysis * Genome analysis * High-performance bio-computing * High-throughput sequencing data analysis * Molecular evolution * Molecular modeling and simulation * Pattern discovery and classification * Population genetics * Software tools and applications * Structural biology * Systems biology We seek two categories of submissions: extended abstracts of up to 12 pages in Springer LNCS format, and short abstracts of up to 4 pages. Both types of submissions must be made electronically by following the instructions at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isbra2010 Submission implies willingness of at least one author to register and present at the symposium. Accepted extended abstracts will be published prior to the symposium in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics series and presented orally at the symposium. Accepted short abstracts will be published online and on CD-ROM and selected for either oral or poster presentation. As in previous years, full versions of selected extended abstracts presented at the symposium will be invited to a peer-reviewed special issue of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. The authors of remaining extended and short abstracts will be invited to submit full versions to a peer-reviewed volume to be published after the symposium in BMC Proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Extended Abstracts Short Abstracts __________________ _______________ Submission January 29, 2010 April 2, 2010 Notification February 19, 2010 April 16, 2010 Final version March 5, 2010 April 23, 2010 Steering Chairs: * Dan Gusfield, UC Davis * Yi Pan, Georgia State * Marie-France Sagot, INRIA General Chairs * Ion Mandoiu, UConn * Alex Zelikovsky, Georgia State Program Chairs * Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Tech * J. Peter Gogarten, UConn * Teresa Przytycka, NIH * Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, UConn Workshop Chairs * Yufeng Wu, UConn * Craig Nelson, UConn Finance Chairs * Anu Bourgeois, Georgia State * Raj Sunderraman, Georgia State Publicity Chair * Dumitru Brinza, Life Technologies _______________________________________________ ISBRA-L mailing list ISBRA-L at dna.engr.uconn.edu http://dna.engr.uconn.edu/mailman/listinfo/isbra-l From clements at nescent.org Wed Nov 25 16:11:27 2009 From: clements at nescent.org (Dave Clements) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:11:27 -0800 Subject: [BiO BB] GMOD Community Meeting, January 2010 Message-ID: The next GMOD meeting will be held January 14-15 in San Diego, California, USA, immediately after the Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) conference. There is no registration fee for this meeting. However, there is limited space, so please register early. See the meeting page for more information: http://gmod.org/wiki/January_2010_GMOD_Meeting. GMOD is a collection of interoperable open source software components for visualizing, annotating, and managing biological data. GMOD is also a community of users and developers asking diverse questions, and facing common challenges, with their biological data. GMOD has many widely used software packages, including GBrowse, Apollo, CMap, Chado, BioMart, MAKER, Galaxy, Textpresso, and many others. The availability and affordability of next generation sequencing (NGS) has made GMOD particularly timely to a wide range of research groups. As with previous GMOD meetings, there will be a mixture of project, component, and user talks. There will also be a number of satellite meetings focusing on particular areas of interest. Thanks, Dave Clements GMOD Help Desk -- http://gmod.org/wiki/January_2010_GMOD_Meeting http://gmod.org/wiki/GMOD_News From cannataro at unicz.it Thu Nov 26 12:16:00 2009 From: cannataro at unicz.it (Mario Cannataro) Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:16:00 +0100 (CET) Subject: [BiO BB] CfP: Third International Workshop on "Biomedical and Bioinformatics' Challenges to Computer Science Message-ID: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE (ICCS 2010) http://www.iccs-meeting.org/ University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands May 31 - June 2, 2010 3rd Workshop on Biomedical and Bioinformatics Challenges to Computer Science http://staff.icar.cnr.it/cannataro/iccs2010/ CALL FOR PAPERS Bioinformatics is providing the foundation for fast and reliable data analysis. Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, epidemiological, clinical and text mining applications have made essential progress through using bioinformatics tools. Standard tools are usually offered through the Web. This is no longer sufficient with more complex analysis and simulation tasks from emerging research fields like systems biology, image analysis, biomedical applications or data management. In recent years Grid and Web services based approaches have been developed to face the new challenges.Moreover, emerging life sciences applications need to use in a coordinated way both bioinformatics tools, biological data banks, and patient?s clinical data, that requires seamless integration, privacy preservation and controlled sharing. This 3rd Workshop on Biomedical and Bioinformatics Challenges to Computer Science will bring together scientists from computer and life sciences to discuss future directions of bioinformatics algorithms, applications, and data management. Questions to be looked at are whether wrapping existing algorithms as Grid or Web service will be sufficient to cope with the more complex applications and the increasing volume of data to be processed or which applications would profit from being redeveloped as native parallel or distributed application. Furthermore, the use of novel parallel architectures and dedicated hardware to implement bioinformatics and biomedical algorithms will be discussed. TOPICS OF INTEREST The workshop is seeking original research papers presenting innovative solutions from parallel, distributed and Grid computing applied to bioinformatics algorithms and life sciences applications. Specifically we are interested in the following topics: - sequence and structure bioinformatics - computational proteomics - systems biology - biomedical image analysis - biomedical simulation - data management - data integration - data visualization - workflow modelling - distributed biomedical applications - high performance computing - dedicated hardware and architectures - parallelisation techniques - service orientation - volunteer computing - peer-to-peer computing PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION We invite original previously unpublished contributions that are not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference. The submitted paper must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules of Procedia Computer Science (for formatting information see for text/latex and for MSword. Click here for a Latex template plus instructions). Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. PostScript and source versions of your paper must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system. Please, note that papers must not exceed ten pages in length, when typeset using the Procedia format. Dates of deadlines for draft paper submission (full paper), notification of acceptance, deadline for camera-ready paper submission and registration may be found in the Important Dates section of the ICCS Web site. Papers must be based on unpublished, mature and original work and must be submitted to ICCS only. JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE At the end of the workshop, we plan to invite the best 4-6 papers of the workshop for a special section on an international journal. Selected papers (extended and revised version) accepted on the 1st edition of the workshop have been published on a special section of Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier. IMPORTANT DATES Full papers submission: December 20, 2009 Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2010 Camera ready papers: March 1, 2010 Early registration opens: February 15, 2010 Early registration closes: March 31, 2010 Conference sessions : May 31 - June 2, 2010 WORKSHOP CO-ORGANIZERS Mario Cannataro, University Magna Gr?cia of Catanzaro, Italy Joakim Sundnes, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Rodrigo Weber dos Santos, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TO BE CONFIRMED) 1. Dave Angulo, DePaul University, Chicago, USA 2. Rui Brito, University of Coimbra, Portugal 3. Tim Clark, Harvard Medical School, USA 4. Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK 5. Werner Dubitzky, University of Ulster, UK 6. Christine Froidevaux, LRI-Bioinformatics Group - University Paris XI, Orsay, France 7. Alan Garny, University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics 8. Concettina Guerra, University of Padova, Italy 9. Pietro Hiram Guzzi, University Magna Gr?cia of Catanzaro, Italy 10. Ulrich Hansmann, Research Centre Juelich, Germany 11. Vicente Hern?ndez, Univ. Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain 12. Pilar Herrero, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 13. Ela Hunt, University of Strathclyde, Scotland 14. Glenn Terje Lines, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway 15. Marcelo Lobosco, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil 16. Uko Maran, University of Tartu, Estonia 17. Wagner Meira Jr., Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil 18. Maria Mirto, University of Salento, Italy 19. Hartmut Mix, University of Technology Dresden, Germany 20. Salvatore Orlando, University of Venezia, Italy 21. Mar?a S. P?rez, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 22. Gernot Plank, University of Graz, Austria 23. Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK 24. Blanca Rodriguez, University of Oxford, UK 25. Luis Paulo da Silva Barra, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil 26. Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI-CNR, Italy 27. Raymond Spiteri, University of Saskatchewan, Canada 28. Roberto Tagliaferri, University of Salerno, Italy 29. El-Ghazali Talbi, Universit? des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France 30. Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy 31. Pierangelo Veltri, University Magna Gr?cia of Catanzaro, Italy 32. Edward J. Vigmond, University of Calgary, Canada 33. Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia -- Prof. Mario Cannataro, Informatics and Biomedical Engineering, University "Magna Gr?cia" of Catanzaro, Viale Europa (Localit? Germaneto), 88100 CATANZARO, ITALY, Tel: 0961-369 4100, Fax: 0961-369 4073, Email: cannataro at unicz.it, Web: http://bioingegneria.unicz.it/~cannataro/