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The book presents topics in discrete biomathematics. Mathematics has been widely used in modeling biological phenomena. However, the molecular and discrete nature of basic life processes suggests that their logic follow principles that are intrinsically based on discrete and informational mechanisms. The ultimate reason of polymers, as key element of life, is directly based on the computational power of strings, and the intrinsic necessity of metabolism is related to the mathematical notion of multiset.
The switch of the two roots of bioinformatics suggests a change of perspective. In bioinformatics, the biologists ask computer scientists to assist them in processing biological data. Conversely, in infobiotics mathematicians and computer scientists investigate principles and theories yielding new interpretation keys of biological phenomena. Life is too important to be investigated by biologists alone, and though computers are essential to process data from biological laboratories, many fundamental questions about life can be appropriately answered by a perspicacious intervention of mathematicians, computer scientists, and physicists, who will complement the work of chemists, biochemists, biologists, and medical investigators.
The volume is organized in seven chapters. The first part is devoted to research topics (Discrete information and life, Strings and genomes, Algorithms and Biorhythms, Life Strategies), the second one to mathematical backgrounds (Numbers and Measures, Languages and Grammars, Combinations and Chances).
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本書介紹離散生物數學的主題。數學在建模生物現象中被廣泛應用。然而，基本生命過程的分子和離散特性表明，其邏輯遵循本質上基於離散和信息機制的原則。聚合物作為生命的關鍵元素，其最終原因直接基於字符串的計算能力，而新陳代謝的內在必要性則與數學中的多重集合（multiset）概念有關。
生物信息學的兩個根源的轉變暗示著觀點的變化。在生物信息學中，生物學家請求計算機科學家協助他們處理生物數據。相反，在信息生物學（infobiotics）中，數學家和計算機科學家研究原則和理論，以提供生物現象的新解釋鑰匙。生命太重要，不能僅由生物學家來研究，儘管計算機對於處理生物實驗室的數據至關重要，但許多關於生命的基本問題可以通過數學家、計算機科學家和物理學家的敏銳介入來適當回答，他們將補充化學家、生物化學家、生物學家和醫學研究者的工作。
本書共分為七個章節。第一部分專注於研究主題（離散信息與生命、字符串與基因組、算法與生物節律、生命策略），第二部分則涵蓋數學背景（數字與度量、語言與文法、組合與機會）。
