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Sieburg, Hans B.)1)*, Donald E. Mosier)2, Jay M. Otero)1)**, and Hubert Halkin )3. )1 Laboratory for Biological Informatics and Theoretical Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, 0603-H, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093-0603. )2 Department of Immunology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037. )3 Department of Mathematics, 0112, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093-0112, USA; )* Author to whom all correspondence should be addressed; hsieburg@ucsd.edu ;)** Presenting author.

-------------------------------------- appended biographies: Dr. Hans B. Sieburg is an assistant adjunct professor in the Department of Psychiatry and a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is head of the Laboratory for Biological Informatics and Theoretical Medicine (BITMed) at UCSD. Dr. Sieburg studied mathematics at the University of Koln, Germany and received a Diploma (magna cum laude) in 1981 and Doctorate (magna cum laude) in 1983. He received the Minister for Education and Technology Travel Award, Japan (1983) and served as Fellow of the German Science Foundation (1984-85). He has received numerous research awards from the National Institute of Mental Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and National Science Foundation. Dr. Sieburg has held positions at Stanford University, Princeton University, University of Texas, and the Salk Institute. He holds advisory positions for several scientific journals and serves as program coordinator/session chair for several scientific conferences on biological informatics and computers in medicine. Dr. Sieburg is married and resides in San Diego, California. Donald E. Mosier, Ph.D., M.D. is a member in the Department of Immunology at the Scripps Research Institute. He is chief of the Division of Immunology at the Medical Biology Insititute in La Jolla, California and holds positions as adjunct professor in the Departments of Pathology at the University of California, San Diego and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Mosier was born in 1944 in New York, New York. He received an A.B. in zoology at Indiana University in 1965 and a Ph.D. in pathology at the University of Chicago in 1969. Dr. Mosier attended the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago and received an M.D. with honors in 1971. His medical internship was served from 1971-72 in the Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston. Dr. Mosier was a postdoctoral fellow, research associate, and senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health during 1971-1978. He was a research physician at the Institute for Cancer Research, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia from 1979-1985. Dr. Mosier has held editorial positions for two immunology journals and is a consultant on several pharmaceutical and research review committees. He is married and lives in Del Mar, California. Jay Michael Otero, M.D. is a second-year Fellow in Clinical Psychopharmacology and Psychobiology at the University of California, San Diego. He was born at Westwood, New Jersey in 1963 and received a B.S. in biology, magna cum laude, from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1984. He worked as an emergency medical technician in 1985 and developed a computerized inspection report generator for his familyÕs business, Virginia Home Inspections, Inc. After receiving his M.D. in 1989 from the Medical College of Virginia, Dr. Otero completed a four-year residency in general psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco -- Fresno. Dr. OteroÕs senior residency project employed a backpropagation neural network simulator to predict the clinical dispositions of suicidal patients. He received awards for best psychiatry resident and best residency project. Dr. Otero plans a future combined clinical, academic, and research career. He is unmarried and currently resides in La Jolla, California. Hubert Halkin, Ph.D. is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Calfornia, San Diego. He studied engineering at the University of Liege, Belgium, physics at Cambridge University, England, and mathematics at Stanford University where he received a Ph.D. in 1963. He was on the staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1963 to 1965. Dr. Halkin has been on the faculty at UCSD since 1965 and was Chair of the Mathematics Department from 1981 to 1987. He was a visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Louvain, Belgium, in 1971-72 (on a Guggenheim fellowship) and a member of the Mathematics Research Center of the University of Montreal in 1972-73. He has been member on the editorial boards of four mathematics journals. Hubert Halkin is married and lives in La Jolla. Correspondence should be addressed to hsieburg@ucsd.edu.