Knowledge exploration in life science informatics : International Symposium KELSI 2004 Milan Italy November 25 26 2004; proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Intrenational Symposium on Knowldge Exploration in Life Science Informatics KELSI 2004 held in Milan Italy in November 2004. the 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the bok. Among the topics covered are proteomic dataanalysis rule induction multile sequence alingnment pattern extraction microaray analysis functional data analysis text mining artificial life evolutionarry algorithms randomized algorithms feature extraction classification case based learning and bioscience education