Giuseppe Nicosia, Optimization, Computational Biology, Combinatorial Optimization, Numerical Optimization, Non Linear Optimization, Large Scale Optimization, Evolutionary Algorithms, Genetic Algorithms, Immune Algorithms, Artificial Immune Systems, Immunological Algorithms, Computational Immunology, Graph Coloring, String Folding, NP-complete problems, K-SAT, Robustness, Circuit Optimization, Circuit Design, Design For Yield, Device Optimization, Bioinformatics, Structural Bioinformatics, Protein Folding, Protein Structure Prediction, HP model.