Bioinformatics An Introduction /

• Main Author: Ramsden, Jeremy. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Series: Computational Biology, 10
• Subjects: Computer science.; Bioinformatics.; Cytology.; Biology > Data processing.; Systems theory.; Biomedical engineering.; Computer Science.; Systems Theory, Control.; Biophysics/Biomedical Physics.; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences.; Cell Biology.; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-257-9

Bioinformatics is interpreted as the application of information science to biology, in which it plays a fundamental and all-pervasive role. The field continues to develop intensively in both academia and commercially, and is highly interdisciplinary. This broad-ranging and thoroughly updated second...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction. Part I: Information
• The Nature of Information
• The Transmission of Information
• Sets and Combinatorics
• Probability and Likelihood
• Randomness and Complexity
• Systems, Networks and Circuits
• Algorithms
• Part II: Biology
• Introduction to Part II
• The Nature of Living Things
• The Molecules of Life
• Part III: Applications
• Introduction to Part III
• Genomics
• Proteomics
• Interactomics
• Metabolomics and Metabonomics
• Medical Applications
• The Organization of Knowledge
• Bibliography.