The computational methods of bioinformatics are being used more and more to process the large volume of current biological data. Promoting an understanding of the underlying biology that produces this data, Pattern Discovery in Bioinformatics: Theory and Algorithms provides the tools to study regularities in biological data. Taking a systema

This book presents a systematic study of visual pattern discovery, from unsupervised to semi-supervised manner approaches, and from dealing with a single feature to multiple types of features. Furthermore, it discusses the potential applications of discovering visual patterns for visual data analytics, including visual search, object and scene recognition. It is intended as a reference book for advanced undergraduates or postgraduate students who are interested in visual data analytics, enabling them to quickly access the research world and acquire a systematic methodology rather than a few isolated techniques to analyze visual data with large variations. It is also inspiring for researchers working in computer vision and pattern recognition fields. Basic knowledge of linear algebra, computer vision and pattern recognition would be helpful to readers.

Finding patterns in biomolecular data, particularly in DNA and RNA, is at the center of modern biological research. These data are complex and growing rapidly, so the search for patterns requires increasingly sophisticated computer methods. Pattern Discovery in Biomolecular Data provides a clear, up-to-date summary of the principal techniques. Each chapter is self-contained, and the techniques are drawn from many fields, including graph theory, information theory, statistics, genetic algorithms, computer visualization, and vision. Since pattern searches often benefit from multiple approaches, the book presents methods in their purest form so that readers can best choose the method or combination that fits their needs. The chapters focus on finding patterns in DNA, RNA, and protein sequences, finding patterns in 2D and 3D structures, and choosing system components. This volume will be invaluable for all workers in genomics and genetic analysis, and others whose research requires biocomputing.

Data mining, a recent and contemporary research topic, is the process of automatically searching large volumes of data for patterns in computing. Nowadays, pattern discovery is a field within the area of data mining. In general, large volumes of time series data are contained in financial database and these data have some useful patterns which could not be found easily. Many financial studies in time series data analysis use linear regression model to estimate the variation and trend of the data. However, traditional methods of time series analysis used special types or linear models to describe the data. Linear models can achieve high accuracy when linear variation of the data is small, however, if the variation range exceeds a certain limit, the linear models has a lower performance in estimated accuracy. Among these traditional methods, SOM (Self Organizing Map) is a well-known non-linear model to extract pattern with numeric data. Many researches extract pattern from numeric data attributes rather than categorical or mixed data. It does not extract the major values from pattern rules, either. The purpose of this study is to provide a novel architecture in mining patterns from mixed data that uses a systematic approach in the financial database information mining, and try to find the patterns for estimate the trend or for special event’s occurrence. This present study employs ESA algorithm which integrates both EViSOM algorithm and EAOI algorithm. EViSOM algorithm is used to calculate the distance between the categorical and numeric data for pattern finding, whereas EAOI algorithm serves to generalize major values using conceptual hierarchies for patterns and major values extraction in financial database. The attempt of using ESA algorithm in this study is to discover the pattern in the Concept Hierarchy based Pattern Discovery (CHPD) architecture. Specifically, this architecture facilitates the direct handling of mixed data, including categorical and numeric values. This mining architecture is able to simulate human intelligence and discover patterns automatically, and it also demonstrates knowledge pattern discovery and rule extraction.

This work provides a review of biological networks as a model for analysis, presenting and discussing a number of illuminating analyses. Biological networks are an effective model for providing insights about biological mechanisms. Networks with different characteristics are employed for representing different scenarios. This powerful model allows analysts to perform many kinds of analyses which can be mined to provide interesting information about underlying biological behaviors. The text also covers techniques for discovering exceptional patterns, such as a pattern accounting for local similarities and also collaborative effects involving interactions between multiple actors (for example genes). Among these exceptional patterns, of particular interest are discriminative patterns, namely those which are able to discriminate between two input populations (for example healthy/unhealthy samples). In addition, the work includes a discussion on the most recent proposal on discovering discriminative patterns, in which there is a labeled network for each sample, resulting in a database of networks representing a sample set. This enables the analyst to achieve a much finer analysis than with traditional techniques, which are only able to consider an aggregated network of each population.