Introduction to Data Mining for the Life Sciences

• Main Author: Sullivan, Rob (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2012.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Bioinformatics.; Life Sciences.

One of the major challenges for the scientific community, a challenge that has been seen in many business disciplines, is the exponential increase in data being generated by new experimental techniques and research. A single microarray experiment, for example, can generate thousands of data points t...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Fundamental Concepts
• Data Architecture and Data Modeling
• Representing Data Mining Results
• The Input Side of the Equation
• Statistical Methods
• Bayesian Statistics
• Machine Learning Techniques
• Classification and Prediction
• Informatics
• Systems Biology
• Let’s Call it a Day
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C. Appendix D
• Index.