A Computer Scientist's Guide to Cell Biology A travelogue from a stranger in a strange land /

• Main Author: Cohen, William W. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computers.; Artificial intelligence.; Bioinformatics.; Computational biology.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Computer Science.; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Theory of Computation.

This practical guide provides a succinct treatment of the general concepts of cell biology, furnishing the computer scientist with the tools necessary to read and understand current literature in the field. The book explores three different facets of biology: biological systems, experimental methods...

Table of Contents:

• 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?.