Bioinformatics An Introduction /

• Main Author: Ramsden, Jeremy (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Series: Computational Biology, 10
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Bioinformatics.; Cell biology.; Computational biology.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Life Sciences.; Life Sciences, general.; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics.; Cell Biology.; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.

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:

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