Information Processing and Biological Systems

1. Introduction
Samuli Niiranen, Andre Ribeiro

2. Biological Information and Natural Selection
Daniel Cloud

3. Swarm-Based Simulations for Immunobiology
Christian Jacob, Vladimir Sarpe, Carey Gingras, Rolando Pajon Feyt

4. Biological Limits of Hand Preference Learning Hiding Behind the Genes
Fred G. Biddle, Brenda A. Eales

5. Stochastic Gene Expression and the Processing and Propagation of Noisy Signals in Genetic Networks
Daniel A. Charlebois, Theodore J. Perkins, Mads Kaern

6. Boolean Threshold Networks: Virtues and Limitations for Biological Modeling
Jorge G. T. Zañudo, Maximino Aldana, Gustavo Martínez-Mekler

7. Structure-Dynamics Relationships in Biological Networks
Juha Kesseli, Lauri Hahne, Olli Yli-Harja, Ilya Shmulevich, Matti Nykter

8. Large-Scale Statistical Inference of Gene Regulatory Networks: Local Network-Based Measures
Frank Emmert-Streib

9. Information Propagation in the Long-Term Behavior of Gene Regulatory Networks
Andre S. Ribeiro, Jason Lloyd-Price

10. Natural Language and Biological Information Processing
Samuli Niiranen, Jari Yli-Hietanen, Olli Yli-Harja

Keywords: Engineering, Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Systems Biology, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics, Complexity