Computational systems bioinformatics; methods and biomedical applications.9789812707048 Computational systems bioinformatics; methods and biomedical bi·o·med·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to biomedicine. 2. Of, relating to, or involving biological, medical, and physical sciences. applications. Zhou, Xiaobo and Stephen T.C. Wong. World Scientific 2008 387 pages $65.00 Hardcover QH324 Although no longer in its infancy, computational system biology remains a remarkably dynamic field of study with great potential as it quickly examines the structure and processes of biological systems at the molecular, cellular, tissue and organ levels. Zhou (Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is a prestigious American medical school located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. ) and Wong (Brigham and Women's Hospital Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is a hospital in the Longwood Area of the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Mission Hill. With Massachusetts General Hospital, it is one of the two founding members of Partners HealthCare. ) aim at keeping up with the quick pace of change in this field from the systems perspective. They focus on the high-throughput techniques used in computation system bioinformatics, namely gene expression microarray studies, describe how to combine DNA sequencing DNA sequencing The determination of the sequence of nucleotides in a sample of DNA. information and gene microarray information to study gene regulation, and review image informatics for molecular and cellular imaging, creating objective quantitative phenotypes. They include sections on principles of mathematics, statistics and data mining, on missing value estimation using KNN KNN Kids News Network KNN Kanda News Network (Japan) KNN Kingdom News Network KNN Kashmir News Network KNN Kurdistan National Network KNN K-Mart News Network KNN K-Nearest Neighbor and Bayesian methods, conducting cross-platform comparisons, protein structure informatics, biomarker discover and related methods. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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