August 2015
Intermediate to advanced
670 pages
21h 9m
English
It gives us immense pleasure to present this edited book to the computational biology, bioinformatics, and systems biology research communities. As stated in the preface of this book, computational biology is the science of using biological data to develop algorithms and relations among various biological systems. It involves the development and application of data-analytical algorithms, mathematical modeling and simulation techniques to the study of biological, behavioral, and social systems. The field is multidisciplinary, in that it includes topics that are traditionally covered in computer science, mathematics, imaging science, statistics, chemistry, biophysics, genetics, genomics, ...