Biological category: 21163 books
by Edward L. Alpen
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1997
This newly revised and updated edition of Radiation Biophysics provides an in-depth description of the physics and chemistry of radiation and its effects on biological systems. Coverage begins with fundamental concepts of the physics of radiation and radioactivity, then progresses through the chemistry...
Code Biology
A New Science of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
This book is the study of all codes of life with the standard methods of science. The genetic code and the codes of culture have been known for a long time and represent the historical foundation of this book. What is really new in this field is the study of all codes that came after the genetic...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Proceedings of The 2009 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in Las Vegas, NV, July 13-16, 2009. Recent advances in Computational Biology are covered through a variety of topics. Both inward research (core areas of computational biology and computer science) and outward...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Within the healthcare domain, big data is defined as any ``high volume, high diversity biological, clinical, environmental, and lifestyle information collected from single individuals to large cohorts, in relation to their health and wellness status, at one or several time points.'' Such data is crucial...
Mathematica for Bioinformatics
A Wolfram Language Approach to Omics
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to using Mathematica and the Wolfram Language for Bioinformatics. The chapters build gradually from basic concepts and the introduction of the Wolfram Language and coding paradigms in Mathematica, to detailed worked examples derived from typical research...
by Bhaskar DasGupta, Jie Liang
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
By providing expositions to modeling principles, theories, computational solutions, and open problems, this reference presents a full scope on relevant biological phenomena, modeling frameworks, technical challenges, and algorithms.
Up-to-date developments of structures of biomolecules, systems...
Creation
How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
What is life?
Humans have been asking this question for thousands of years. But as technology has advanced and our understanding of biology has deepened, the answer has evolved. For decades, scientists have been exploring the limits of nature by modifying and manipulating DNA, cells and whole...
Sex, Love and DNA
What Molecular Biology Teaches Us About Being Human
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Can the discoveries of 21st-century molecular biology answer age-old questions about the human experience? Can studying proteins and DNA help us understand how we make our choices in sex and love? How we communicate? Why some people are able to become top athletes, while others have the intellectual...
Residue Reviews / Rückstands-Berichte
Residues of Pesticides and Other Foreign Chemicals in Foods and Feeds / Rückstände von Pesticiden und anderen Fremdstoffen in Nahrungs- und Futtermitteln
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
That residues of pesticide and other "foreign" chemicals in foodstuffs are of concern to everyone everywhere is amply attested by the reception accorded previous volumes of "Residue Reviews" and by the gratifying en thusiasm, sincerity, and efforts shown by all the individuals...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), tentatively defined as ncRNAs of more than two hundred nucleotides in length, are characterized by the complexity and diversity of their sequences and mechanisms of action. Based on genome-wide studies, more than 3,300 of them exist, but to date only the limited number...
by John Vincent
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Chromium exists in nature as complexes of two stable oxidation states – trivalent chromium(III) and hexavalent chromium(VI). Although trivalent chromium is required in trace amounts for sugar and lipid metabolism in humans and its deficiency may cause a disease called chromium deficiency; hexavalent...
Synergistic Selection
How Cooperation Has Shaped Evolution and the Rise of Humankind
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
"Nothing about the evolution of biological complexity makes sense except in the light of synergy." Peter Corning's new book is being hailed as a major contribution to what is perhaps the greatest shift in our understanding of evolution since The Origin of Species. It's a tour de force that...
Self-Consciousness
The Hidden Internal State of Digital Circuits
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
The study of self-consciousness helps humans understand themselves and restores their identities. But self-consciousness has been a mystery since the beginning of history, and this mystery cannot be resolved by conventional natural science. In Self-Consciousness, author Masakazu Shoji takes the mystery...
Biosafety of Forest Transgenic Trees
Improving the Scientific Basis for Safe Tree Development and Implementation of EU Policy Directives
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
This book provides up-to-date information on the environmental impact of transgenic trees on genetically modified tree (GMT) communication strategy. It is useful to public/private organisations as well as to private and public research bodies and universities worldwide since it reports on the global...