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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the First International Life Science Grid Workshop, LSGRID 2004, held in Kanazawa, Japan in May/ June 2004.

The 10 revised full papers and 5 invited papers presented were carefully selected and went through two rounds of reviewing and revision. Among the topics addressed are grid environment for bioinformatics, grid architectures, database federation, proteome annotation, grid workflow software, functional genome annotation, protein classification, tree inference, parallel computing, high performance computing, grid infrastructures, functional genomics, and evolutionary algorithms.

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This digital document is an article from Technometrics, published by American Statistical Association on February 1, 2002. The length of the article is 337 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics. (Book Reviews). (book review)
Author: Eric Ziegel
Publication: Technometrics (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 2002
Publisher: American Statistical Association
Volume: 44Issue: 1Page: 96(1)

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This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the German Conference on Bioinformatics, GCB'96, held in Leipzig, Germany, in September/October 1996. The volume presents 18 revised full papers together with three invited papers; these contributions were selected after a second round of reviewing from the 91 conference presentations. The book addresses current issues in computational biology and biologically inspired computing. The papers are organized in sections on biological and metabolic pathways, sequence analysis, molecular modeling, visualization, and formal languages, and DNA. ... Read more

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This book presents a selection of revised full papers accepted for presentation at the First International Conference on Biology, Informatics, and Mathematics, JOBIM 2000, held in Montpellier, France, in May 2000.The 13 papers included in the book were selected after two rounds of reviewing and revision from a total of 67 submissions. Among the topics addressed are algorithms, comparative genomics, evolution, phylogeny, databases, knowledge processing, genome anotation, graph theory, combinatorial mathematics, macromolecular structures, RNA and proteins, metabolic pathways and regulatory networks, and statistics and classification. ... Read more

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Provides an overview of the rapidly evolving field of genomics with coverage of nucleic acid technologies, proteomics and bioinformatics. It includes chapters on applications in human health, agriculture and comparative genomics and also contains two chapters on the legal and ethical issues of genomics, a topic that is becoming increasingly important as genomics moves out of the laboratory into practical applications. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from BIOTECH Patent News, published by Biotech Patent News on October 1, 2002. The length of the article is 602 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Digital Gene to use Accelrys' bioinformatics system.(Digital Gene Technologies Inc.)
Publication: BIOTECH Patent News (Newsletter)
Date: October 1, 2002
Publisher: Biotech Patent News
Volume: 16Issue: 10

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This digital document is an article from Instrument Business Outlook, published by Strategic Directions International Inc. (SDI) on April 30, 2002. The length of the article is 1180 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The fast changing world of bioinformatics.
Publication: Instrument Business Outlook (Newsletter)
Date: April 30, 2002
Publisher: Strategic Directions International Inc. (SDI)
Volume: 11Issue: 2Page: 3(2)

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This digital document is an article from Instrument Business Outlook, published by Strategic Directions International Inc. (SDI) on March 15, 2002. The length of the article is 1214 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The changing fortunes of bioinformatic database companies.(Incyte Genomics, Celera Genomics report sales, change strategies)(Statistical Data Included)
Publication: Instrument Business Outlook (Newsletter)
Date: March 15, 2002
Publisher: Strategic Directions International Inc. (SDI)
Volume: 10Issue: 23Page: 4(2)

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Recent advances in biotechnology, spurred by the Human Genome Project, have resulted in the accumulation of vast amounts of new data. Ontologies -- computer-readable, precise formulations of concepts (and the relationship among them) in a given field -- are a critical framework for coping with the exponential growth of valuable biological data generated by high-output technologies. This book introduces the key concepts and applications of ontologies and ontology languages in bioinformatics and will be an essential guide for bioinformaticists, computer scientists, and life science researchers.

The three parts of Ontologies for Bioinformatics ask, and answer, three pivotal questions: what ontologies are; how ontologies are used; and what ontologies could be (which focuses on how ontologies could be used for reasoning with uncertainty). The authors first introduce the notion of an ontology, from hierarchically organized ontologies to more general network organizations, and survey the best-known ontologies in biology and medicine. They show how to construct and use ontologies, classifying uses into three categories: querying, viewing, and transforming data to serve diverse purposes. Contrasting deductive, or Boolean, logic with inductive reasoning, they describe the goal of a synthesis that supports both styles of reasoning. They discuss Bayesian networks as a way of expressing uncertainty, describe data fusion, and propose that the World Wide Web can be extended to support reasoning with uncertainty. They call this inductive reasoning web the Bayesian web. ... Read more

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The three-volume set LNCS 3514-3516 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2005, held in Atlanta, GA, USA in May 2005.

The 464 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 834 submissions for the main conference and its 21 topical workshops. The papers span the whole range of computational science, ranging from numerical methods, algorithms, and computational kernels to programming environments, grids, networking, and tools. These fundamental contributions dealing with computer science methodologies and techniques are complemented by papers discussing computational applications and needs in virtually all scientific disciplines applying advanced computational methods and tools to achieve new discoveries with greater accuracy and speed.

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After the completion of the human genome project, Proteomics is regarded as the "next frontier." Not only does Proteomics aim at establishing repertories of all proteins expressed in a cell at a given time and under given physiological or developmental conditions, but more importantly, Proteomics aims at unraveling the complex network of interactions in which proteins are involved in the cell. Techniques have been developed to rapidly create protein-protein interactions maps which in turn can be organized into pathways. Proteins serving as hubs in these networks seem to play crucial biological roles. Some of these proteins may provide new pharmalogical targets for an industry which is rapidly running out of the more classical means of finding new markets. Proteomics and Protein-Protein Interactions: Biology, Chemistry, Bioinformatics, and Drug Design aims at providing a comprehensive yet entertaining view of this rapidly evolving and exciting field. It starts with an overview of the importance of protein-protein interaction in biology (Chapter I). Next, the book dives into Proteomics issues (Chapter II) and describes successful applications of the Proteomics approach. Chapter III focuses on the very specific roles that protein modules play in determining and regulating protein-protein interactions while chapter IV addresses the chemical and energetic underpinnings of such macromolecular interactions. The data generated by a Proteomics approach is abundant and will only be made sense of using bio-informatics: chapter V is dedicated to giving a voice to some of the leaders in the bio-informatics field. Finally, in chapter VI, examples are provided to illustrate the great potential that protein-protein interfaces have as targets for pharmaceuticals. ... Read more

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The two volumes LNAI 2773 and LNAI 2774 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2003, held in Oxford, UK in September 2003. The 390 revised papers and poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. Among the areas covered are knowledge-based systems, neural computing, fuzzy logic, uncertainty, machine learning, soft computing, agent systems, intelligent agents, data mining, knowledge discovery, hybrid intelligent systems, natural language processing, information retrieval, Web applications, case-based reasoning, evolutionary computing, signal processing, ontologies, decision making, human-computer interaction, intelligent user interfaces, neuroscience, intelligent agents, biocomputing, etc. ... Read more

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This volume offers a broad and interdisciplinary view of modernapproaches to drug discovery as used by pharmaceutical companies andresearch institutes. It comprehensively covers proteomics,bioinformatics, screening techniques such as high-throughput-, naturalcompounds-, and NMR-based-screenings, combinatorial chemistry, compoundlibrary design, ligand- and structure-based drug design andpharmacokinetic approaches. Each of the thirteen chapters reviews thetheory, background and application of a key technology in drugdiscovery, complemented by an extensive list of references to theoriginal literature.This concise source of information will be useful for researchers, bothin industry and academia, as well as students in the fields ofmedicinal, pharmaceutical and computational chemistry, bioinformatics,biochemistry, molecular biology and pharmacology. ... Read more

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  This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Symposium on Surgery Simulation and Soft Tissue Modeling, IS4TM 2003, held in Juan-Les-Pins, France in June 2003. The 33 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on soft tissue models, haptic rendering, cardiac modeling, and patient specific simulators. ... Read more

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This book attempts to provide an overview of advanced computer applications derived from and used in biosciences and in doing so to help define and promote the newly emerging focus on molecular bioinformatics.It is intended to serve as a guidebook for both biologists who are about to turn to computers and for computer scientists who are looking for interesting application areas.The reader will find a variety of modern methodogical approaches applied to number of quite diverse topics.The book is also intended to inspire further research in this exciting and vastly expanding research area. ... Read more

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In this unique presentation of a revolutionary field of science, the first section introduces the domains of application for genomics and bioinformatics, such as sequencing and the comparative sequence analysis of model organisms, investigating genetically influenced diseases, the development of new active substances, agri-food and environmental genomics.
There then follows an overview of current topics central to DNA technologies, proteomics, metabolomics and bioinformatics, including such hot topics as DNA chip fabrication, yeast two hybrid analysis, tools for gene expression studies, metabolic networks and systems biology.
The whole is rounded off by four chapters on the ethical, legal and social aspects of this sensitive topic. ... Read more