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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790973403321

Titolo

Biological data mining and its applications in healthcare / / editors, Xiaoli Li, ASTAR, Singapore & Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, See-Kiong Ng, A*STAR, Singapore, Jason T.L. Wang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Jersey : , : World Scientific, , [2014]

�2014

ISBN

981-4551-01-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 420 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Science, engineering, and biology infomatics ; ; volume 8

Disciplina

610.285

Soggetti

Medical informatics

Bioinformatics

Data mining

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

part I. Sequence analysis -- part II. Biological network mining -- part III. Classification, trend analysis and 3D medical images -- part IV. Text mining and its biomedical applications.

Sommario/riassunto

Biologists are stepping up their efforts in understanding the biological processes that underlie disease pathways in the clinical contexts. This has resulted in a flood of biological and clinical data from genomic and protein sequences, DNA microarrays, protein interactions, biomedical images, to disease pathways and electronic health records. To exploit these data for discovering new knowledge that can be translated into clinical applications, there are fundamental data analysis difficulties that have to be overcome. Practical issues such as handling noisy and incomplete data, processing compute-intensive tasks, and integrating various data sources, are new challenges faced by biologists in the post-genome era. This book will cover the fundamentals of state-of-the-art data mining techniques which have been designed to handle such challenging data analysis problems, and demonstrate with real applications how biologists and clinical scientists can employ data mining to enable them to make meaningful observations and



discoveries from a wide array of heterogeneous data from molecular biology to pharmaceutical and clinical domains.