SPECIAL ISSUE ON IMAGING IN BIOINFORMATICS JOURNAL OF REAL-TIME IMAGING, ACADEMIC PRESS Guest Editors: Prof Luciano da Fontoura Costa Coordinator, Cybernetic Vision Research Group, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and Prof Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte Gene Expression Laboratory, Salk Institute, USA The application of imaging and pattern recognition techniques in biology is posed to catalyze several breakthroughs in critical areas, including genetics and neuroscience, over the forthcoming decade. This special issue targets high quality and original contributions involving the application of imaging concepts and techniques, including related works involving pattern recognition and datamining, in several relevant biological problems. The considered areas include but are not limited to: Micrograph image processing and analysis Karyotyping Neuromorphometry Biological shape analysis Microarray analysis Datamining Pattern recognition Image databases Comparative anatomy Morphometry Cellular and developmental biology Visualization Parallel and concurrent processing Morphogenesis Intended deadlines: Submission: July 2001 Publication: April 2002 For further information: Special Issue WWW site: http://cyvision.if.sc.usp.br/~luciano/si_bioinf.htm E-mail: Luciano da F. Costa (luciano@if.sc.usp.br) Manuscript submissions should follow the guidelines and format usually adopted by the journal. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%