Beschreibung:
This comprehensive textbook/reference presents a self-contained guide to bioinformatics, defined in its broadest sense as the application of information science to biology.
Introduction.- Part I: Information.- The Nature of Information.- The Transmission of Information.- Sets and Combinatorics.- Probability and Likelihood.- Randomness and Complexity.- Systems, Networks and Circuits.- Algorithms.- Part II: Biology.- Introduction to Part II.- The Nature of Living Things.- The Molecules of Life.- Part III: Applications.- Introduction to Part III.- Genomics.- Proteomics.- The Glycome, Lipidome and Microbiome.- Interactomics.- The Nervous System.- Metabolomics and Metabonomics.- Phenomics.- Medical Applications.- Ecosystems Management.- The Organization of Knowledge.