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Plenary Lecture
Use of Intelligent Evolutionary Agents in the Analysis of Genomic Signals

Professor Paul Dan Cristea
Bio-Medical Engineering Center,
University "Politehnica" of Bucharest,
ROMANIA
E-mail: pcristea@dsp.pub.ro
Abstract:
Surprising regularities in the distribution of nucleotides and
pairs of nucleotides along the genomes of both prokaryotes and
eukaryotes become evident when converting nucleotide sequences
from symbolic to digital form. These regularities make the
structure of a genome be less like that of a "plain text", which
simply conveys a semantics in accordance to a grammar, and more
like that of a "poem", which obeys additional structural rules
that give "rhythm" and "rhyme". Direct applications of the rules
satisfied by nucleotide sequences are (1) objective evaluation
of sequencing process quality, (2) prediction of nucleotides
sequences similarly to time series, (3) revealing of genome
ancestral structure, (4) analysis of pathogen variability.
Intelligent Evolutionary Agents are used to track pathogen
variability, specifically to identify drug resistance mutations,
without the need of the conventional lengthily and expensive
phenotypic clinical studies that request pathogen culture.
Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Paul Cristea graduated the Faculty of Electronics and
Telecommunications of the University "Politehnica" of Bucharest
(UPB) in 1962, the Faculty of Physics of the University of
Bucharest in 1969, and got a Ph.D. in Technical Physics in 1970.
Since then his research and teaching activities covered an
extended area of Electrical Engineering and interdisciplinary
domains including topics like Genomic Signals, Digital Signal
and Image Processing, Neural and Evolutionary Systems,
Evolutionary Intelligent Agents, Intelligent e-Learning
Environments, a.o. He is the author or co-author of more then
130 published papers, 11 patents, and has contributed to more
then 20 books in these fields. Currently, he is the director of
the Bio-Medical Engineering Center of PUB, director of the
Romanian Bioinformatics Society, and an associated member of the
Romanian Academy.
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