January 2017
Beginner to intermediate
464 pages
13h 26m
English
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Acknowledgments
Most broadly, this book has been inspired by the need for a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to solving the intricate puzzle that is cancer. Cancer poses a complex adaptive challenge that reaches across all domains: medicine, biology, technology, and the social sciences. Transdisciplinary collaboration is the only true path to the future. Ubiquitous research computing in support of “open science” and open big data has an essential role to play in this collaborative process.
More specifically, this book is dedicated to Sue Stigler and the family she leaves behind. Her three-and-a-half-year battle with cancer came to a close on December 7, 2015. Sue’s kindness and devotion, and her endless support for others even while ill, were remarkable; her selflessness will always be remembered. If you would like to donate to the Stigler family college fund, please visit their GoFundMe page, https://www.gofundme.com/bpebavas.
Author proceeds support childhood brain cancer research through an ASU Foundation account supporting Dr. Joshua LaBaer’s work in the Biodesign Institute. Dr LaBaer is conducting cutting-edge research on pediatric low-grade astrocytomas (PLGAs), which are the most common cancers of the brain in children.
In the research and discovery leading to this book, I have worked with more amazing and committed individuals than I could have ever imagined. My mentor and friend Ken Buetow is fond of saying, “If you’re the smartest person in the room, you ...
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