Some publications and projects of the members of the consortium and related to this project are given below:

Book Chapters

A.-A. Tantar, N. Melab, E.-G. Talbi, An Analysis of Dynamic Mutation Operators for Conformational Sampling, Biologically-inspired Optimisation Methods : Parallel Algorithms, Systems and Applications, 2009.

E. Tantar, A.-A. Tantar, N. Melab, E.-G. Talbi, Analysis of Local Search Algorithms for Conformational Sampling, Advances in Parallel Computing, Parallel Programming and Applications on Grids, P2P and Networked-based Systems, IOS Press, 2009.

A.-A. Tantar, N. Melab and E.-G. Talbi, Conformational sampling and docking on Grids, Grids for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Molecular Docking using Grid Computing, pp. 179-198. USA, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN : 978-0-471-78409-8, 2007.

Journal Papers

Alexandru-Adrian Tantar, Nouredine Melab, El-Ghazali Talbi, A Grid-based Genetic Algorithm combined with an Adaptive Simulated Annealing for Protein Structure Prediction. Soft Computing Journal, Springer Verlag, Special issue on Distributed Bioinspired Algorithms, DOI : 10.1007/s00500-008-0298-8, 2008.

A-A. Tantar, N. Melab, E-G. Talbi, H. Dragos and B. Parent, A Parallel Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Protein Structure Prediction on the Computational Grid, Elsevier Science, Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier Science, vol. 23(3), pp. 398-409, 2007.

Alexandru-Adrian Tantar, Benjamin Parent, Nouredine Melab, Sylvaine Roy, El-Ghazali Talbi and Dragos Horvath, Docking and Biomolecular Simulations on Computer Grids : Status and Trends. Current Computer-Aided Drug Design, ISSN : 1573-4099 - Volume 4, 2008.

Lafanechère L.. Le criblage phénotypique sur cellules et les stratégies de génétique chimique directe. Chapitre 8, In Le criblage pharmacologique automatisé : du haut-débit au haut-contenu d’information, Edited by E. Maréchal, S. Roy and L. Lafanechère, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, in Press.

Parent B., Kokosy A., Horvath D., ”Optimized evolutionary strategies in conformational sampling”, submitted to Journal of Soft Computing, Jan 2005.

Conferences

Dragos Horvath, Lorraine Brillet, Sylvaine Roy, Sébastien Conilleau, Alexandru-Adrian Tantar, Jean-Charles Boisson, Nouredine Melab and El-Ghazali Talbi, Local vs. Global Search Strategies in Evolutionary GRID-based Conformational Sampling & Docking, Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, IEEE Congress, Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2009.

J-C. Boisson, L. Jourdan, E-G. Talbi et D. Horvath. "Parallel multi-objective algorithms for the molecular docking problem", Conference in Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (CIBCB), September 15-17 2008, Sun Valley Resort, Idaho, USA. (Oral presentation, Best Student Paper)

Alexandru-Adrian Tantar, Nouredine Melab, El-Ghazali Talbi, Nature-inspired Algorithms for Computational Grids, ACIS-SNPD 2008, Phuket, Thailand, August 6-8, 2008.

Jorge Tavares, Alexandru-Adrian Tantar, Nouredine Melab, El-Ghazali Talbi, The Influence of Mutation on Protein-Ligand Docking Optimization : a Locality Analysis. Parallel Problem Solving From Nature - PPSN 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany, September 13-17, 2008.

Jorge Tavares, Alexandru-Adrian Tantar, Nouredine Melab, El-Ghazali Talbi, The Impact of Local Search on Protein-Ligand Docking Optimization, Hybrid Intelligent Systems, International Conference on, pp. 53-58, 2008 Eighth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, 2008.

Benjamin Parent, Alexandru Tantar, Nouredine Melab, El-Ghazali Talbi, Dragos Horvath, Grid-based evolutionary strategies applied to the conformational sampling problem. IEEE Congress, Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007, pp. 291-296, September 25-28, 2007.

A-A. Tantar, N. Melab and E-G. Talbi. A Comparative Study of Parallel Metaheuristics for Protein Structure Prediction on the Computational Grid. In Proc. of the 10th IEEE/ACM Intl. Workshop on Nature Inspired Distributed Computing (NIDISC'07 - in conjunction with IPDPS'2007), Long Beach, California, March 26, 2007.

Workshops

Alexandru-Adrian Tantar, Nouredine Melab, El-Ghazali Talbi and Bernard Toursel, Solving the Protein Folding Problem with a Bicriterion Genetic Algorithm on the Grid. Fourth International Workshop on Biomedical Computations on the Grid (BioGrid'06), May 16-19, 2006, Singapore.

Technical Report

Alexandru-Adrian Tantar, Nouredine Melab, Christophe Demarey, El- Ghazali Talbi, Building a Virtual Globus Grid in a Reconfigurable Environment - A case study : Grid5000, INRIA Technical Report 00168130, http ://hal.inria.fr/inria- 00168130/en/.

Talks

J-C. Boisson, L. Jourdan, E-G. Talbi et D. Horvath. "A new tri-objective model for the flexible docking problem", In International conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing (META'08), October 29-31 2008. Hammamet, Tunisia. (Oral presentation)

Alexandru-Adrian Tantar, SEN4 CWI Invited Seminar - Conformational Sampling on Grids - Protein Structure Prediction and Molecular Docking, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10 October 2008.

J-C. Boisson, L. Jourdan, G. Even, E-G. Talbi et D. Horvath. "Docking moléculaire multi-objectif par algorithme évolutionnaire", "Journée Ouvertes Biologie Informatique Mathématiques" (JOBIM 2008), June 30-July 2 2008, Lille, France. (Poster)

Alexandru-Adrian Tantar, Docking@GRID - Parallel and Distributed Metaheuristics for Molecular Docking, PPF BioInfo, LIFL, June 11, 2008, Lille, France.

Alexandru-Adrian Tantar, Nouredine Melab, El-Ghazali Talbi, Software framework for parallel and distributed metaheuristics, 22nd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXII), page 45, July 8-11, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic.

J-C. Boisson, L. Jourdan, E-G. Talbi et D. Horvath. "Docking moléculaire multi-objectif par algorithme évolutionnaire", "Neuvième congrès de la Société Française de Recherche Opérationnelle et d'Aide à la décision" (ROADEF 2008), p.73-74, February 25-27 2008, Clermont-Ferrand, France. (Oral presentation).

Alexandru-Adrian Tantar, Docking@GRID - Conformational Sampling and Docking on Grids, PPF BioInfo, Polytech Lille, June 18, 2007, Lille, France.