A Computer Scientist's Guide to Cell Biology
Cohen, William W., Cohen, Charles K.
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2024-07-12
- 售價: $1,620
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,539
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 117
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 3031559061
- ISBN-13: 9783031559068
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商品描述
Unlike the structured world of computer science, biology is complex, evolving, and often lacks clean abstract models. This book aims to serve as a guide for computer scientists who need to understand cell biology, breaking the field into three parts: biological mechanics, experimental methods, and language/nomenclature. While biological mechanics, which investigates cellular-level details, is covered by many texts, this book also focuses on experimental methods - how biologists conduct experiments and gather data - and on helping the reader understand the language and terminology of biology, which is rich but challenging for non-biologists.
A Computer Scientist's Guide to Cell Biology uses a metaphor of biology as a strange land with an unfamiliar language and customs. The goal of the book is to provide a high-level introduction to cell biology, simplifying concepts and relating them to familiar ideas from computer science, so that working computer scientists can more effectively understand read recent research papers and results.
This Second Edition contains a number of updates, including discussions of CRISPR, advances in DNA Sequencing, and mRNA vaccines. It serves as an easy-to-read travel guide for computer scientists navigating the intricate and sometimes perplexing terrain of cell biology, offering insights into experimental methods and helping bridge the gap between the structured world of computer science and the complexities of biological systems.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
與計算機科學的結構化世界不同,生物學是複雜的、不斷演化的,並且常常缺乏乾淨的抽象模型。本書旨在為需要了解細胞生物學的計算機科學家提供指南,將該領域分為三個部分:生物力學、實驗方法和語言/術語。儘管許多教材涵蓋了研究細胞層面細節的生物力學,但本書還專注於實驗方法 - 生物學家如何進行實驗和收集數據 - 以及幫助讀者理解生物學的語言和術語,這對非生物學家來說是豐富但具有挑戰性的。
《計算機科學家的細胞生物學指南》將生物學比喻為一個陌生的國度,擁有一種不熟悉的語言和習俗。本書的目標是提供對細胞生物學的高層次介紹,簡化概念並將其與計算機科學中的熟悉思想相關聯,以便工作中的計算機科學家能更有效地理解最新的研究論文和結果。
這本第二版包含了一些更新,包括CRISPR的討論、DNA序列技術的進展和mRNA疫苗。它作為一本易於閱讀的旅遊指南,為計算機科學家在細胞生物學這個錯綜複雜的領域中提供洞察力,提供實驗方法的見解,並幫助彌合計算機科學結構化世界與生物系統複雜性之間的差距。
作者簡介
William W. Cohen is a AAAI Fellow, past president of the International Machine Learning Society, winner of multiple best-paper and test-of-time awards, author of hundreds of refereed publications, and past recipient of multiple NIH grants on applications of computer science to biology and biological information seeking.
Charles K. Cohen is a trained biologist who moved from the lab bench to earn a master's degree in science and medical writing from Johns Hopkins University. In this transition, he has found that typos are much easier to correct than contaminated petri dishes.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
William W. Cohen是AAAI Fellow,國際機器學習學會的前任主席,多次獲得最佳論文和時間考驗獎,撰寫了數百篇經過同行評審的論文,並曾多次獲得美國國家衛生研究院(NIH)關於計算機科學應用於生物學和生物信息尋求的資助。
Charles K. Cohen是一位受過訓練的生物學家,從實驗室工作轉而獲得約翰霍普金斯大學的科學和醫學寫作碩士學位。在這個轉變中,他發現更正錯別字比清理受污染的培養皿要容易得多。