Life Out Of Sequence

Author : Hallam Stevens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781299850781
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Out of Sequence written by Hallam Stevens and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years ago, the most likely place to find a biologist was standing at a laboratory bench, peering down a microscope, surrounded by flasks of chemicals and petri dishes full of bacteria. Today, you are just as likely to find him or her in a room that looks more like an office, poring over lines of code on computer screens. The use of computers in biology has radically transformed who biologists are, what they do, and how they understand life. In "Life Out of Sequence," Hallam Stevens looks inside this new landscape of digital scientific work. Stevens chronicles the emergence of bioinformatics the mode of working across and between biology, computing, mathematics, and statistics from the 1960s to the present, seeking to understand how knowledge about life is made in and through virtual spaces. He shows how scientific data moves from living organisms into DNA sequencing machines, through software, and into databases, images, and scientific publications. What he reveals is a biology very different from the one of predigital days: a biology that includes not only biologists but also highly interdisciplinary teams of managers and workers; a biology that is more centered on DNA sequencing, but one that understands sequence in terms of dynamic cascades and highly interconnected networks. "Life Out of Sequence" thus offers the computational biology community welcome context for their own work while also giving the public a frontline perspective of what is going on in this rapidly changing field. "

Author : Hallam Stevens
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022608034X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Out of Sequence written by Hallam Stevens and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years ago, the most likely place to find a biologist was standing at a laboratory bench, peering down a microscope, surrounded by flasks of chemicals and petri dishes full of bacteria. Today, you are just as likely to find him or her in a room that looks more like an office, poring over lines of code on computer screens. The use of computers in biology has radically transformed who biologists are, what they do, and how they understand life. In Life Out of Sequence, Hallam Stevens looks inside this new landscape of digital scientific work. Stevens chronicles the emergence of bioinformatics—the mode of working across and between biology, computing, mathematics, and statistics—from the 1960s to the present, seeking to understand how knowledge about life is made in and through virtual spaces. He shows how scientific data moves from living organisms into DNA sequencing machines, through software, and into databases, images, and scientific publications. What he reveals is a biology very different from the one of predigital days: a biology that includes not only biologists but also highly interdisciplinary teams of managers and workers; a biology that is more centered on DNA sequencing, but one that understands sequence in terms of dynamic cascades and highly interconnected networks. Life Out of Sequence thus offers the computational biology community welcome context for their own work while also giving the public a frontline perspective of what is going on in this rapidly changing field.

Author : Mark Borodovsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139458124
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Problems and Solutions in Biological Sequence Analysis written by Mark Borodovsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-04 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first of its kind to provide a large collection of bioinformatics problems with accompanying solutions. Notably, the problem set includes all of the problems offered in Biological Sequence Analysis, by Durbin et al. (Cambridge, 1998), widely adopted as a required text for bioinformatics courses at leading universities worldwide. Although many of the problems included in Biological Sequence Analysis as exercises for its readers have been repeatedly used for homework and tests, no detailed solutions for the problems were available. Bioinformatics instructors had therefore frequently expressed a need for fully worked solutions and a larger set of problems for use on courses. This book provides just that: following the same structure as Biological Sequence Analysis and significantly extending the set of workable problems, it will facilitate a better understanding of the contents of the chapters in BSA and will help its readers develop problem-solving skills that are vitally important for conducting successful research in the growing field of bioinformatics. All of the material has been class-tested by the authors at Georgia Tech, where the first ever MSc degree program in Bioinformatics was held.

Author : Hamid D. Ismail
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000519074
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bioinformatics written by Hamid D. Ismail and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-03-23 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to NCBI Databases and Sequence Alignments provides the basics of bioinformatics and in-depth coverage of NCBI databases, sequence alignment, and NCBI Sequence Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST). As bioinformatics has become essential for life sciences, the book has been written specifically to address the need of a large audience including undergraduates, graduates, researchers, healthcare professionals, and bioinformatics professors who need to use the NCBI databases, retrieve data from them, and use BLAST to find evolutionarily related sequences, sequence annotation, construction of phylogenetic tree, and the conservative domain of a protein, to name just a few. Technical details of alignment algorithms are explained with a minimum use of mathematical formulas and with graphical illustrations. Key Features Provides readers with the most-used bioinformatics knowledge of bioinformatics databases and alignments including both theory and application via illustrations and worked examples. Discusses the use of Windows Command Prompt, Linux shell, R, and Python for both Entrez databases and BLAST. The companion website contains tutorials, R and Python codes, instructor materials including slides, exercises, and problems for students. This is the ideal textbook for bioinformatics courses taken by students of life sciences and for researchers wishing to develop their knowledge of bioinformatics to facilitate their own research.

Author : Lori Andrews
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312942458
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sequence written by Lori Andrews and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geneticist Alexandra Blake uses her expertise to investigate a serial killer plaguing military bases across the country, but when an another murder hits close to home, Alex and her boyfriend, a Texas congressman, find their lives in danger.

Author : Philippe Blanchard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319049690
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advances in Sequence Analysis: Theory, Method, Applications written by Philippe Blanchard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a general view of sequence analysis, the statistical study of successions of states or events. It includes innovative contributions on life course studies, transitions into and out of employment, contemporaneous and historical careers, and political trajectories. The approach presented in this book is now central to the life-course perspective and the study of social processes more generally. This volume promotes the dialogue between approaches to sequence analysis that developed separately, within traditions contrasted in space and disciplines. It includes the latest developments in sequential concepts, coding, atypical datasets and time patterns, optimal matching and alternative algorithms, survey optimization, and visualization. Field studies include original sequential material related to parenting in 19th-century Belgium, higher education and work in Finland and Italy, family formation before and after German reunification, French Jews persecuted in occupied France, long-term trends in electoral participation, and regime democratization. Overall the book reassesses the classical uses of sequences and it promotes new ways of collecting, formatting, representing and processing them. The introduction provides basic sequential concepts and tools, as well as a history of the method. Chapters are presented in a way that is both accessible to the beginner and informative to the expert.

Author : Scott Markel
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 9780596004941
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sequence Analysis in a Nutshell: A Guide to Tools written by Scott Markel and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2003-01-27 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work pulls together all of the vital information about the most commonly used databases, analytical tools, and tables used in sequence analysis.

Author : Richard Durbin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511337086
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biological Sequence Analysis written by Richard Durbin and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents up-to-date computer methods for analysing DNA, RNA and protein sequences.

Author : John C. Wright
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1429947128
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Judge of Ages written by John C. Wright and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 10,515 AD. The Hyades Armada, traveling at near lightspeed, will reach Earth in just four centuries to assess humanity's value as slaves. For the last 8,000 years, two opposing factions have labored to meet the alien threat in very different ways. One of them is Ximen del Azarchel, immortal leader of the mutineers from the starship Hermetic and self-appointed Master of the World, who has allowed his followers to tamper continuously with the evolutionary destiny of Man, creating one bizarre race after another in an apparent search for a species the Hyades will find worthy of conquest. The other is Menelaus Montrose, the posthuman Judge of Ages, whose cryonic Tombs beneath the surface of Earth have preserved survivors from each epoch created by the Hermeticists. Montrose intends to thwart the alien invaders any way he can, and to remain alive long enough to be reunited with his bride Rania, who is on a seventy-millennia journey to confront the Hyades' masters, tens of thousands of light-years away. Now, with the countdown to the Hyades' arrival nearing its end, del Azarchel and Montrose square off for what is to be their final showdown for the fate of Earth, a battle of gunfire and cliometric calculus; powered armor and posthuman intelligence. Judge of Ages is the wildly inventive third volume in a series exploring future history and human evolution from John C. Wright. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Phoebe North
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442459530
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Starglass written by Phoebe North and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all of her 16 years, Terra has lived on a city within a spaceship that left Earth 500 years ago seeking refuge. But as they finally approach the chosen planet, she is drawn into a secret rebellion that could change the fate of her people.