Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 340 pages
- Published by: Springer
- Edition: 1st Edition September 17, 2004
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1852336714
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1852336714
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Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
- Weighs: 1 pounds
Product Description
The goal of this book is to help readers understand state-of-the-art techniques in biological data mining and data management and includes topics such as:
- preprocessing tasks such as data cleaning and data integration as applied to biological data
- classification and clustering techniques for microarrays
- comparison of RNA structures based on string properties and energetics
- discovery of the sequence characteristics of different parts of the genome
- mining of haplotypes to find disease markers
- sequencing of events leading to the folding of a protein
- inference of the subcellular location of protein activity
- classification of chemical compounds based on structure
- special purpose metrics and index structures for phylogenetic applications
- a new query language for protein searching based on the shape of proteins
- very fast indexing schemes for sequences and pathways
Aimed at computer scientists, necessary biology is explained.
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