Bioinformatics and bioengineering; proceedings.9780769527277 Bioinformatics and bioengineering bioengineering Application of engineering principles and equipment to biology and medicine. It includes the development and fabrication of life-support systems for underwater and space exploration, devices for medical treatment (see ; proceedings. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (6th: 2006: Arlington, VA) Computer Society Press 2006 371 pages $196.00 Paperback QP620 Proceedings of an international conference held in Arlington,Virginia, in October 2006. Forty-eight contributions are organized into sections on protein structure, function, and classification; pattern discovery and data mining; microarrays; sequence alignment and database search; phylogenies, trees, and visualization; DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. and RNA RNA: see nucleic acid. RNA in full ribonucleic acid One of the two main types of nucleic acid (the other being DNA), which functions in cellular protein synthesis in all living cells and replaces DNA as the carrier of genetic sequence and structure; clustering, similarity metrics, and near neighbor methods; regulatory and metabolic networks and bioengineering I; and bioengineering II. A sampling of topics: a language modeling text mining approach to the annotation of protein community, extending pattern branching to handle challenging instances, quick hierarchical biclustering on microarray gene expression data, visualization of DNA/RNA structure using temporal CGRs, a new kernel method for RNA classification, assigning schema labels using ontology ontology: see metaphysics. ontology Theory of being as such. It was originally called “first philosophy” by Aristotle. In the 18th century Christian Wolff contrasted ontology, or general metaphysics, with special metaphysical theories and heuristics, and methods for random modularization of biological networks. Indexed by author only. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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