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1. |  Computational Knowledge Discovery for Bioinformatics Research By: Xiao-Li Li; See-Kiong Ng Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 26-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Computational Knowledge Discovery for Bioinformatics Research Biological and clinical studies provide valuable insight into the causes and potential cures of disease. Using statistics and data mining and other computational approaches, bioinformatics researchers can provide the medical community with ground-breaking discoveries that change how we perceive and treat these illnesses.Computational Knowledge Discovery for Bioinformatics Research discusses the most significant research and latest practices in computational knowledge discovery approaches to bioinformatics in a cross-disciplinary manner which is useful for researchers, practitioners,...
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2. |  Bioinformatics for Glycobiology and Glycomics: An Introduction By: Claus-Wilhelm von der Lieth; Thomas Luetteke; Martin Frank Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 19-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 19-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Bioinformatics for Glycobiology and Glycomics: An Introduction
This book is the first to be dedicated to the bioinformatics of carbohydrates and glycoproteins. It provides an introduction to this emerging field of science both for the experimentalist working in glycobiology and glycomics, and also for the computer scientist looking for background information for the development of highly sophisticated algorithmic approaches. The book provides an overview of the state-of-the-art in the field, with reviews on databases, and the tools in use for analysis, interpretation, and prediction of the structures of complex carbohydrates, and demonstrates the...
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3. |  Rough-Fuzzy Pattern Recognition: Applications in Bioinformatics and Medical Imaging By: Pradipta Maji; Sankar K. Pal Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press Publication Date: 14-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 08-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Rough-Fuzzy Pattern Recognition: Applications in Bioinformatics and Medical Imaging
Learn how to apply rough-fuzzy computing techniques to solve problems in bioinformatics and medical image processing
Emphasizing applications in bioinformatics and medical image processing, this text offers a clear framework that enables readers to take advantage of the latest rough-fuzzy computing techniques to build working pattern recognition models. The authors explain step by step how to integrate rough sets with fuzzy sets in order to best manage the uncertainties in mining large data sets. Chapters are logically organized according to the major phases of pattern recognition...
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4. |  Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Second Edition By: Jonathan Pevsner Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publication Date: 04-MAY-2009 Insert Date: 01-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Second Edition
The bestselling introduction to bioinformatics and functional genomics—now in an updated edition
Widely received in its previous edition, Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics offers the most broad-based introduction to this explosive new discipline. Now in a thoroughly updated and expanded Second Edition, it continues to be the go-to source for students and professionals involved in biomedical research.
This edition provides up-to-the-minute coverage of the fields of bioinformatics and genomics. Features new to this edition include:
Several fundamentally important proteins,...
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5. |  Bioinformatics for Vaccinology By: Darren R. Flower Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 23-DEC-2008 Insert Date: 05-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Bioinformatics for Vaccinology
"... this book was written from start to finish by one extremely dedicated and erudite individual. The author has done an excellent job of covering the many topics that fall under the umbrella of computational biology for vaccine design, demonstrating an admirable command of subject matter in fields as disparate as object-oriented databases and regulation of T cell response. Simply put, it has just the right breadth and depth, and it reads well. In fact, readability is one of its virtues—making the book enticing and useful, all at once..." Human Vaccines, 2010
"... This book has several...
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6. |  Handbook of Research on Artificial Immune Systems and Natural Computing By: Hongwei Mo Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-APR-2009 Insert Date: 19-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Handbook of Research on Artificial Immune Systems and Natural Computing Today, nature is used as a source of inspiration for the development of new techniques for solving complex problems in various domains, from engineering to biology, with innovative adaptations under investigation.
The Handbook of Research on Artificial Immune Systems and Natural Computing: Applying Complex Adaptive Technologies provides the latest empirical research findings, theoretical frameworks, and technologies of natural computing and artificial immune systems (AIS). An excellent reference source for professionals, researchers, and academicians within the AIS and natural computing...
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7. |  Dental Computing and Applications By: Andriani Daskalaki Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-APR-2009 Insert Date: 19-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Dental Computing and Applications Over the last 40 years, dental informatics has implemented numerous technological advancements and discoveries to become a medical research discipline of significant scale and scope.
Dental Computing and Applications: Advanced Techniques for Clinical Dentistry presents the latest technological applications and advanced research findings of computing in clinical dentistry. This book leads students and advanced researchers to an understanding of current ideas in the analysis of dental data and provides an overview on searching for evidence-based medical and dental information on the Web....
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8. |  Information Retrieval in Biomedicine By: Violaine Prince; Mathieu Roche Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-MAR-2009 Insert Date: 19-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Information Retrieval in Biomedicine Today, there is an intense interest for bio natural language processing (NLP) creating a need among researchers, academicians, and practitioners for a comprehensive publication of articles in this area.
Information Retrieval in Biomedicine: Natural Language Processing for Knowledge Integration provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in this area according to a linguistic granularity. As a critical mass of advanced knowledge, this book presents original applications, going beyond existing publications while opening up the road for a broader use of...
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9. |  By: Alan Liew; Shilin Wang Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-JAN-2009 Insert Date: 19-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Visual Speech Recognition The unique research area of audio-visual speech recognition has attracted much interest in recent years as visual information about lip dynamics has been shown to improve the performance of automatic speech recognition systems, especially in noisy environments.
Visual Speech Recognition: Lip Segmentation and Mapping presents an up-to-date account of research done in the areas of lip segmentation, visual speech recognition, and speaker identification and verification. A useful reference for researchers working in this field, this book contains the latest research results from renowned...
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10. |  Biologically Inspired Networking and Sensing By: Pietro Lio; Dinesh Verma Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-AUG-2011 Insert Date: 09-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Biologically Inspired Networking and Sensing Despite their widespread impact, computer networks that provide the foundation for the World Wide Web and Internet have many limitations. These networks are vulnerable to security threats, break easily, and have a limited ability to respond to changing conditions. Recent research on overcoming these limitations has used biological systems for inspiration, resulting in the development of biologically-inspired computer networks. These networks are designed and developed using principles that are commonly found in natural and biological systems.Biologically Inspired Networking and Sensing:...
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11. |  Human Memory Modeled with Standard Analog and Digital Circuits: Inspiration for Man-made Computers Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 27-JUL-2009 Insert Date: 27-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Human Memory Modeled with Standard Analog and Digital Circuits: Inspiration for Man-made Computers
Gain a new perspective on how the brain works and inspires new avenues for design in computer science and engineering
This unique book is the first of its kind to introduce human memory and basic cognition in terms of physical circuits, beginning with the possibilities of ferroelectric behavior of neural membranes, moving to the logical properties of neural pulses recognized as solitons, and finally exploring the architecture of cognition itself. It encourages invention via the methodical study of brain theory, including electrically reversible neurons, neural networks, associative...
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12. |  Bioinformatics and Biomarker Discovery: "Omic" Data Analysis for Personalized Medicine By: Francisco Azuaje Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 16-MAR-2010 Insert Date: 13-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Bioinformatics and Biomarker Discovery: "Omic" Data Analysis for Personalized Medicine
This book is designed to introduce biologists, clinicians and computational researchers to fundamental data analysis principles, techniques and tools for supporting the discovery of biomarkers and the implementation of diagnostic/prognostic systems.
The focus of the book is on how fundamental statistical and data mining approaches can support biomarker discovery and evaluation, emphasising applications based on different types of "omic" data. The book also discusses design factors, requirements and techniques for disease screening, diagnostic and prognostic applications.
Readers are...
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13. |  Structural Bioinformatics, 2nd Edition By: Jenny Gu; Philip E. Bourne Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publication Date: 16-MAR-2009 Insert Date: 13-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Structural Bioinformatics, 2nd Edition
Structural Bioinformatics was the first major effort to show the application of the principles and basic knowledge of the larger field of bioinformatics to questions focusing on macromolecular structure, such as the prediction of protein structure and how proteins carry out cellular functions, and how the application of bioinformatics to these life science issues can improve healthcare by accelerating drug discovery and development. Designed primarily as a reference, the first edition nevertheless saw widespread use as a textbook in graduate and undergraduate university courses dealing...
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14. |  Computational Intelligence and Pattern Analysis in Biological Informatics By: Ujjwal Maulik; Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay; Jason T. Wang Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 30-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 13-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Computational Intelligence and Pattern Analysis in Biological Informatics
An invaluable tool in Bioinformatics, this unique volume provides both theoretical and experimental results, and describes basic principles of computational intelligence and pattern analysis while deepening the reader's understanding of the ways in which these principles can be used for analyzing biological data in an efficient manner.
This book synthesizes current research in the integration of computational intelligence and pattern analysis techniques, either individually or in a hybridized manner. The purpose is to analyze biological data and enable extraction of more meaningful...
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15. |  By: Zoé Lacroix; Terence Critchlow Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 18-JUL-2003 Insert Date: 08-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Bioinformatics
Life science data integration and interoperability is one of the most challenging problems facing bioinformatics today. In the current age of the life sciences, investigators have to interpret many types of information from a variety of sources: lab instruments, public databases, gene expression profiles, raw sequence traces, single nucleotide polymorphisms, chemical screening data, proteomic data, putative metabolic pathway models, and many others. Unfortunately, scientists are not currently able to easily identify and access this information because of the variety of semantics,...
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16. |  Biometric Technologies and Verification Systems By: John R. Vacca Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Publication Date: 16-MAR-2007 Insert Date: 05-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Biometric Technologies and Verification Systems
Biometric Technologies and Verification Systems is organized into nine parts composed of 30 chapters, including an extensive glossary of biometric terms and acronyms. It discusses the current state-of-the-art in biometric verification/authentication, identification and system design principles. It also provides a step-by-step discussion of how biometrics works; how biometric data in human beings can be collected and analyzed in a number of ways; how biometrics are currently being used as a method of personal identification in which people are recognized by their own unique corporal or...
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17. |  By: Limin Liu; Dongqing Wei; Yixue Li Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 11-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | The advancement of high-throughput technologies that generate large scale biological data, as well as the development of related computational tools, has united global efforts and brought revolutionary changes to the research of biology during the last decade. Nowadays, biologists work with scientists and engineers from a broad spectrum of disciplines to unravel how complex biological systems work.Interdisciplinary Research and Applications in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Environmental Sciences is a collection of cutting-edge research papers in the field of computational and...
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18. |  Ubiquitous Cardiology: Emerging Wireless Telemedical Applications By: Piotr Augustyniak; Ryszard Tadeusiewicz Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-MAR-2009 Insert Date: 30-OCT-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Ubiquitous Cardiology: Emerging Wireless Telemedical Applications
Ubiquitous Cardiology: Emerging Wireless Telemedical Applications provides developmental solutions and explanations for cardiovascular diagnostics. Useful to field researchers, academicians, and healthcare practitioners, this Premier Reference Source presents a collection of studies on medical data redundancy, priority, and validity.
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19. |  Pattern Recognition Technologies and Applications: Recent Advances By: BrijeshMichael VermaBlumenstein Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-JUN-2008 Insert Date: 01-APR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pattern Recognition Technologies and Applications: Recent Advances
"The nature of handwriting in our society has significantly altered over the ages due to the introduction of new technologies such as computers and the World Wide Web. With increases in the amount of signature verification needs, state of the art internet and paper-based automated recognition methods are necessary.
Pattern Recognition Technologies and Applications: Recent Advances provides cutting-edge pattern recognition techniques and applications. Written by world-renowned experts in their field, this easy to understand book is a must have for those seeking explanation in topics such...
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20. |  Biological Data Mining in Protein Interaction Networks By: Xiao-Li Li; See-Kiong Ng Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-MAY-2009 Insert Date: 01-DEC-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Biological Data Mining in Protein Interaction Networks
Biological Data Mining in Protein Interaction Networks explains bioinformatic methods for predicting PPIs, as well as data mining methods to mine or analyze various protein interaction networks. A defining body of research, this book discovers underlying interaction mechanisms by studying intra-molecular features that form the common denominator of various PPIs.
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