Infobiotics : information in biotic systems

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Label

Infobiotics : information in biotic systems

Title remainder

information in biotic systems

Statement of responsibility

Vincenzo Manca

Creator

• Manca, Vincenzo

Subject

• Biological models.
• Biomathematics
• Computational Intelligence.
• Electronic books
• Electronic bookss
• Engineering.
• Information theory in biology
• Mathematical and Computational Biology.
• NATURE / Reference
• SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology
• SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General
• Systems Biology.
• Artificial intelligence.

Language

eng

Summary

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)

Member of

• Emergence, complexity and computation, 3

Cataloging source

GW5XE

Dewey number

570.285

Index

index present

LC call number

QH507

LC item number

.M36 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Emergence, complexity and computation,

Series volume

3