{"title":"Overview and study focuses of microfluidic-based cell culture systems","authors":"Manguo Huang, S. Fan, Weiwei Xing","doi":"10.1109/BICTA.2009.5338136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BICTA.2009.5338136","url":null,"abstract":"Microfluidic platforms are microfabricated tools that are gaining popularity for studying of cellular biology. These platforms can allow precise control of the environment surrounding individual cells and have achieved amazing progress in application to cell culture in recent years. In this paper, we discuss the major characteristics of microfluidic chip and the corresponding advantages for cell culture, review microfluidic cell culture systems that are classified into: (i) micropatterned cell culture on substrate surface; (ii) microchannels cell culture; and, (iii) microchambers cell culture. We also introduce several study focuses of microfluidic cell culture systems.","PeriodicalId":161787,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fourth International on Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing","volume":"18 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120921181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combining genetic algorithms with optimality criteria method for topology optimization","authors":"Zhimin Chen, Liang Gao, H. Qiu, X. Shao","doi":"10.1109/BICTA.2009.5338131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BICTA.2009.5338131","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a new algorithm for topology optimization by combining the features of genetic algorithms (GAs) and optimality criteria method (OC). An efficient treatment of initial population with optimality criteria method for evolutionary algorithm is presented which is different from traditional GAs application in structural topology optimization. The optimality method initializes a group of initial solutions near the best solution, then evolutionary operators of crossover and mutation are developed for evolutionary search. In so doing, the combining method can fully take advantage of the merits of both optimality criteria method and the genetic algorithm. The effectiveness of this method is demonstrated by some case studies of the widely studied structural minimum weight design problem. Compared with the solutions of other GA methods, several numerical examples show that the proposed optimization method can solve topology optimization problems more efficiently and also can achieve better results with lower computational cost.","PeriodicalId":161787,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fourth International on Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116981454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DNA algorithm on optimal path selection for bus travel network","authors":"Qian Zhang, Enqi Xu, Zhenye Wang, Yafei Dong","doi":"10.1109/BICTA.2009.5338116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BICTA.2009.5338116","url":null,"abstract":"Through the analysis of the transit network solution of optimal path algorithm, this paper proposes the bus route optimization algorithm of DNA to consider both the shortest distance by bus and the minimum interchange, and gives a detailed biological process. It not only puts forward a new feasible algorithm for transit network optimal path search, but also provides an practical opportunity for the theory of DNA computation.","PeriodicalId":161787,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fourth International on Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115169370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A position-slots model for nucleosome assembly in the yeast genome based on integrated multi-platform positioning dataseis","authors":"Jihua Feng, X. Dai, Qian Xiang, Zhiming Dai, Jiang-Hai Wang, Yangyang Deng, Caisheng He","doi":"10.1109/BICTA.2009.5338121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BICTA.2009.5338121","url":null,"abstract":"In-depth analysis of the recent five experimental nucleosome datasets reveals the broad disagreements between the final nucleosome positions detected by the previous studies. Using signal processing methods, we found two distinct nucleosome distribution domains which evidently emerge from promoter and coding regions. We calculated and confirmed that the fuzzy nucleosomes fall into the dynamic domain, and well-positioned nucleosomes fall into the stable one. By combining the domains information with gene properties, transcription factors binding sites (TFBs) and DNA bendability, we revealed the relationship between the two domains with TATA and TATA_less genes. Then, investigating the link between the two domains and the histone H3 modifications, we observed that the extremely rapid-replacing histone H3 occurs at the immediate downstream of transcription start sites (TSS) rather than +1 nucleosome position. Finally, we presented a slots model for nucleosome assembly in the yeast genome to explain the mechanism of nucleosome forming in the genes promoter regions.","PeriodicalId":161787,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fourth International on Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing","volume":"85 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113996303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prediction of protein-protein interaction types using the decision templates","authors":"Wei Chen, Shaowu Zhang, Yong-mei Cheng","doi":"10.1109/BICTA.2009.5338145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/BICTA.2009.5338145","url":null,"abstract":"Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play a key role in many cellular processes. Knowing about the multitude of PPIs can help the biological scientist understand the molecular mechanism of the cell. Unfortunately, it is both time-consuming and expensive to do so solely based on experiments. Therefore, developing computational approaches for predicting PPIs, PPI binding sites and PPI types would be of significant value. Here, we propose a novel method for predicting the PPI types based on decision templates. First, we introduce the concept of tensor product to construct three kinds of feature vectors which are the amino acid composition tensor product, the residue multi-scale conservation energy tensor product and the secondary structure content tensor product. Then, the correlation-based feature selection method was also used to reduce the dimensionality of these feature vectors. So, the protein pair can be represented by our three new kinds of feature vectors and Zhu's six kinds of feature vectors. The nine kinds of feature vectors are further taken as the inputs of individual support vector machine classifier respectively, and the outputs of these classifiers are aggregated with decision templates in decision level. The overall success rate obtained by jackknife cross-validation was 90.95%, indicating our method is very promising for predicting PPI types.","PeriodicalId":161787,"journal":{"name":"2009 Fourth International on Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing","volume":"83 302 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125967198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}