William W. Cohen

A Computer Scientist's Guide to Cell Biology (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A Computer Scientist’s Guide to Cell Biology provides a "reading knowledge" of biology to those coming into the field from the perspective of computer science-particularly from the areas of information retrieval and/or machine learning.

The text explores three different facets of biology: biological systems, experimental methods, and language and nomenclature. The author discusses what biologists are trying to determine from their experiments, how various experimental procedures are used and how they relate to accepted concepts in computer science, and the vocabulary necessary to read and understand current literature in biology.

Researchers, professionals and computer science students will find this an invaluable reference tool and an excellent starting point for a more comprehensive examination of cell biology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer US
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780387482781
• Artikelnr.: 37285965

Autorenporträt

William W. Cohen is a AAAI Fellow, past president of the International Machine Learning Society, winner of multiple best-paper and test-of-time awards, author of hundreds of refereed publications, and past recipient of multiple NIH grants on applications of computer science to biology and biological information seeking. Charles K. Cohen is a trained biologist who moved from the lab bench to earn a master's degree in science and medical writing from Johns Hopkins University. In this transition, he has found that typos are much easier to correct than contaminated petri dishes.

Inhaltsangabe

How Cells Work.- The Complexity of Living Things.- Looking at Very Small Things.- Manipulation of the Very Small.- Reprogramming Cells.- Other Ways to Use Biology for Biological Experiments.- Bioinformatics.- Where to go from here?.

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.- Introduction.

.- How Cells Work: The Basics.

.- Why Is Biology Hard?.

.- Looking At Very Small Things.

.- Manipulation of the Very Small.

.- Reprogramming Cells.

.- Other Ways to Use Biology For Biological Experiments.

.- Bioinformatics.

.- Where To Go From Here.

Rezensionen

From the reviews:

"This concise book is an excellent introduction for computer scientists to the exciting revolution under way in molecular biology. It provides lucid, high-level descriptions of the fundamental molecular mechanisms of life, and discusses the computational principles involved. I wish this little gem was available when I was 'learning the ropes' -- it would have been my first choice of reading material."

--Roni Rosenfeld, Carnegie Mellon University

"Cell biology is certainly a new and exciting area. This nice, compact, and enthusiastically written book covers a huge amount of material. The author describes biological systems, experimental methods, and the language of cell biology. ... Summing up, this book (with its excellent index) can be used as one of the first steps in obtaining a reading knowledge of biology -- though cautiously." (H. I. Kilov, Computing Reviews, December, 2007)