Industrial Applications of Glycoside Hydrolases
This book gathers selected studies on the industrial applications of glycoside hydrolases (GHs), presenting an updated classification of these enzymes, and discussing their structure, mechanisms, and various approaches to improve their catalytic efficiency. Further, it explains the various industrial applications of glycoside hydrolases in food, effluent treatment, biofuel production, and the paper and pulp industries. Lastly, the book provides a comparative analysis of glycoside hydrolases an...
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2010, held in Los Cabos, Mexico, in October 2010. The 26 long and 13 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 109 submissions. The volume also contains 2 invited talks. The papers are structured in topical sections on crowdsourcing and recommendation; indexes and compressed indexes; theory; string algorithms; compressions; querying and search use...
This greatly expanded 2nd edition provides a practical introduction to - data processing with Linux tools and the programming languages AWK and Perl - data management with the relational database system MySQL, and - data analysis and visualization with the statistical computing environment R for students and practitioners in the life sciences. Although written for beginners, experienced researchers in areas involving bioinformatics and computational biology may benefit from numerous tips a...
Multiple Sequence Alignment (Methods in Molecular Biology, #2231)
Chapter “Alignment of Biological Sequences with Jalview” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies, held in September 2021. Due to the safety concerns and travel restrictions caused by COVID-19, BICT 2021 took place online in a live stream. BICT 2021 aims to provide a world-leading and multidisciplinary venue for researchers and practitioners in diverse disciplines that seek the understanding of key principles, processes and mechanisms in b...
The new computing environment enabled by advances in service oriented arc- tectures, mashups, and cloud computing will consist of service spaces comprising data, applications, infrastructure resources distributed over the Web. This envir- ment embraces a holistic paradigm in which users, services, and resources establish on-demand interactions, possibly in real-time, to realise useful experiences. Such interactions obtain relevant services that are targeted to the time and place of the user requ...
Dieses Buch ist ein praktischer Ratgeber für Biologinnen und Biologen, die Multiple Sequenzalignments (MSAs) für ihre Datenanalysen verwenden und einen verständlichen Überblick über die vielen verschiedenen Programme suchen. Trotz ihres wichtigen Stellenwertes in der Datenanalyse herrscht Unsicherheit unter den Forschenden wie MSA-Programme genau funktionieren - ganz zu schweigen davon, wie und warum die unterschiedlichen Analysen zu verschiedenen Ergebnissen führen. Welches Programm ist für die...
Meßtechnik mit dem Personal Computer
Personal Computer (PC) werden immer h{ufiger als "Arbeitsplatzcomputer" auchin technischen Bereichen eingesetzt. Ihre Verwendung in Labor, Versuchs- undPr}ffeld st|~t jedoch auf Schwierigkeiten oder f}hrt gar zu Fehlschl{gen, weil M|glichkeiten und Grenzen dieser Ger{te falsch eingesch{tzt werden, weil die Anpassung an den technischen Proze~ unzureichend ist oder die Programmierung des Rechners unzweckm{~ig. Hiersetzt das Buch an, vermittelt Grundlagen, zeigt Wege und Beispiele auf, wie bislang...
A First Course in Systems Biology is an introduction for advanced undergraduate and graduate students to the growing field of systems biology. Its main focus is the development of computational models and their applications to diverse biological systems. The book begins with the fundamentals of modeling, then reviews features of the molecular inventories that bring biological systems to life and discusses case studies that represent some of the frontiers in systems biology and synthetic biology....
Computational Cell Biology (Methods in Molecular Biology, #1819)
This volume details computational techniques for analyses of a wide range of biological contexts, providing an overview of the most up-to-date techniques used in the field. Chapters guide the reader through available data resources and analysis methods and easy-to-follow protocols that allow the researcher to apply various computational tools to an array of different data types. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their r...
The IDEAL conference boast a vibrant and successful history dating back to 1998, th and this edition marked the 10 anniversary, an important milestone demonstrating the increasing popularity and high quality of the IDEAL conferences. Burgos, the capital of medieval Spain and a lively city today, was a perfect venue to celebrate such an occasion. The conference has become a unique, established and broad int- disciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners in many fields to interact with each...
Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology
by Robert Arp, Barry Smith, and Andrew D. Spear
An introduction to the field of applied ontology with examples derived particularly from biomedicine, covering theoretical components, design practices, and practical applications.In the era of “big data,” science is increasingly information driven, and the potential for computers to store, manage, and integrate massive amounts of data has given rise to such new disciplinary fields as biomedical informatics. Applied ontology offers a strategy for the organization of scientific information in com...
Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery (Methods in Molecular Biology, #1939)
This third edition volume expands on the previous editions with new topics that cover drug discovery through translational bioinformatics, informatics, clinical research informatics, as well as clinical informatics. The chapters discuss new methods to study target identification, genome analysis, cheminformatics, protein analysis, and text mining. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the n...
Neuronale Netze sind ein Berechenbarkeitsparadigma, das in der Informatik zunehmende Beachtung findet. In diesem Buch werden theoretische Ansätze und Modelle, die in der Literatur verstreut sind, zu einer modellübergreifenden Theorie der künstlichen neuronalen Netze zusammengefügt. Mit ständigem Blick auf die Biologie wird - ausgehend von einfachsten Netzen - gezeigt, wie sich die Eigenschaften der Modelle verändern, wenn allgemeinere Berechnungselemente und Netztopologien eingeführt werden. Jed...
In recent years the importance of adjuvants for optimising the activity of agrochemicals has become increasingly recognized. This book is aimed at accumulating the current knowledge of the interactions between adjuvants, agrochemicals and target organisms. It provides results, and ideas for future research and defines new methodological, biomechanistic and systematic approaches which can be implemented to streamline research and development of formulations and adjuvant/active ingredient combinat...
Serum/Plasma Proteomics (Methods in Molecular Biology, #1619)
Over the past decade, there has been an increase in powerful proteomics technologies that allow greater fundamental insights into the blood proteome. Further developments in informatic analyses, software developments, and computational tools are providing insights into large data sets, open-source data along with large-scale application of bioinformatics. Serum/Plasma Proteomics: Methods and Protocols, Second Edition is a comprehensive resource of protocols for areas, pre-analytical through to a...
Molecular Modeling of Proteins (Methods in Molecular Biology, #443)
Molecular Modeling of Proteins, Second Edition provides a theoretical background of various methods available and enables non-specialists to apply methods to their problems by including updated chapters and new material not covered in the first edition. This detailed volume opens by featuring classical and advanced simulation methods as well as methods to set-up complex systems such as lipid membranes and membrane proteins and continues with chapters devoted to the simulation and analysis of con...
Statistical Population Genomics (Methods in Molecular Biology, #2090)
This open access volume presents state-of-the-art inference methods in population genomics, focusing on data analysis based on rigorous statistical techniques. After introducing general concepts related to the biology of genomes and their evolution, the book covers state-of-the-art methods for the analysis of genomes in populations, including demography inference, population structure analysis and detection of selection, using both model-based inference and simulation procedures. Last but not le...
Transcriptomics and Gene Regulation (Translational Bioinformatics, #9)
This volume focuses on modern computational and statistical tools for translational gene expression and regulation research to improve prognosis, diagnostics, prediction of severity, and therapies for human diseases. It introduces some of state of the art technologies as well as computational and statistical tools for translational bioinformatics in the areas of gene transcription and regulation, including the tools for next generation sequencing analyses, alternative spicing, the modeling o...
Genomics and Proteomics for Clinical Discovery and Development (Translational Bioinformatics, #6)
The book is intended to be a resource for students as well as scientists in education and for the general public to learn about proteomics and genomics. Chromosomes form the basis for our genetic heritage and are the code for protein synthesis. The Human Genome Map came out in 2002, and the Proteome Sequence Map is under currently being created by a global consortia initiative. Proteome and genome building blocks already form the basis of scientific research areas as well as large parts of the p...
Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning Ideal 2011 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #6936)
by Hujun Yin