Computational biology / bioinformatics

The two volume set LNCS 8887 and 8888 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2014, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA.

This book brings the power of multivariate statistics to graduate-level practitioners, making these analytical methods accessible without lengthy mathematical derivations.

This book outlines a unified theory of embryonic development, assuming morphogenesis to be a multi-level process including self-organizing steps while also obeying general laws.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, CMSB 2014, held in Manchester, UK, in November 2014.

This classic text has been used in over 20 countries by advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in biophysics, physiology, medical physics, neuroscience, and biomedical engineering.

Together, the volumes in this series present all of the data needed at various length scales for a multidisciplinary approach to modeling and simulation of flows in the cardiovascular and ventilatory systems, especially multiscale modeling and coupled simulations.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2014, held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in October 2014.

This book presents established and new approaches to perform calculations of electrostatic interactions at the nanoscale, with particular focus on molecular biology applications.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Biomedical Simulation (ISBMS) which was held in Strasbourg, France, in October 2014.

This volume presents the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Development of Biomedical Engineering in Vietnam which was held from June 16-18, 2014 in Ho Chi Minh City.

This book presents various examples of how advanced fluorescence and spectroscopic analytical methods can be used in combination with computer data processing to address different biochemical questions.

This book offers comprehensive coverage of all the core topics of bioinformatics, and includes practical examples completed using the MATLAB bioinformatics toolbox(TM).

With the unifying theme of abstract evolutionary equations, both linear and nonlinear, in a complex environment, the book presents a multidisciplinary blend of topics, spanning the fields of theoretical and applied functional analysis, partial differential equations, probability theory and numerical analysis applied to various models coming from theoretical physics, biology, engineering and complexity theory.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming, DNA 20, held in Kyoto, Japan, in September 2014.

This book contains papers presented at the 2014 MICCAI Workshop on Computational Diffusion MRI, CDMRI'14.

This book is a collection of contributions defining the state of current knowledge and new trends in hybrid systems - systems involving both continuous dynamics and discrete events - as described by the work of several well-known groups of researchers.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, PPSN 2013, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in September 2014.

Fungi are an economic very important class of microbes.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Formal Methods in Macro-Biology, FMMB 2014, held in Noumea, New Caledonia, in September 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics, ITBAM 2014, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2014, in conjunction with DEXA 2014.

Several different transformation techniques have been developed over the years and readily shown to be decisive methods in fungal biotechnology.

These lecture notes provide a fresh approach to investigating singularly perturbed systems using asymptotic and geometrical techniques.

This book - in conjunction with the volumes LNAI 8589 and LNBI 8590 - constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2014, held in Taiyuan, China, in August 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics, PRIB 2014, held in Stockholm, Sweden in August 2014.

The book reports on the latest theories on artificial neural networks, with a special emphasis on bio-neuroinformatics methods.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19thInternational Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata, CIAA 2014, held in Giessen, Germany, in July/August 2014.

The book presents an integrative review of paleoneurology, the study of endocranial morphology in fossil species.

This book develops the theory of continuous and discrete stochastic processes within the context of cell biology.

The 1st World Congress on Geriatrics and Neurodegenerative Disease Research (GeNeDis 2014), will focus on recent advances in geriatrics and neurodegeneration, ranging from basic science to clinical and pharmaceutical developments and will provide an international forum for the latest scientific discoveries, medical practices and care initiatives.

The 1st World Congress on Geriatrics and Neurodegenerative Disease Research (GeNeDis 2014), will focus on recent advances in geriatrics and neurodegeneration, ranging from basic science to clinical and pharmaceutical developments and will provide an international forum for the latest scientific discoveries, medical practices and care initiatives.

The 1st World Congress on Geriatrics and Neurodegenerative Disease Research (GeNeDis 2014), will focus on recent advances in geriatrics and neurodegeneration, ranging from basic science to clinical and pharmaceutical developments and will provide an international forum for the latest scientific discoveries, medical practices and care initiatives.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conferenceproceedings of the 10th International Meeting on ComputationalIntelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, CIBB 2013, held in Nice, France in June 2013.

This book on mathematical modeling of biological processes includes a wide selection of biological topics that demonstrate the power of mathematics and computational codes in setting up biological processes with a rigorous and predictive framework.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2014, held in Zhangjiajie, China, in June 2014.

The two parts of this volume feature seventeen and six extended conference abstracts corresponding to selected talks given by participants at "e;Joint CRM-Imperial College Workshop in Complex Systems"e; and "e;Emergence, Spread and Control of Infectious Diseases"e; respectively, both held at the Centre de Recerca Matematica in Barcelona in spring 2013.

This highly multidisciplinary volume contains contributions from leading researchers in STEAM-H disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Mathematics and Health).

This volume presents recent research on Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning.

Biological and biomedical research are increasingly driven by experimental techniques that challenge our ability to analyse, process and extract meaningful knowledge from the underlying data.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, CPM 2014, held in Moscow, Russia, in June 2014.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference, AlCoB 2014, held in July 2014 in Tarragona, Spain.

The unique responses of plants to combined stresses have been observed at physiological, biochemical, and molecular levels.

The Short QT Syndrome (SQTS) is characterized by abbreviated QT intervals on the electrocardiogram, increased risk of cardiac arrhythmias and sudden death.

The work described in this book is an excellent example of interdisciplinary research in systems biology.

Recent developments in computer science enable algorithms previously perceived as too time-consuming to now be efficiently used for applications in bioinformatics and life sciences.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems (Bionetics 2012), held in Lugano, Switzerland, in December 2012.

This volume contains contributions from the Gulf International Conference in Applied Mathematics, held at the Gulf University for Science & Technology.

Insects, when studied from the ecological perspective, provide a great opportunity for scientific studies emphasizing population theory.

This book brings theories in nonlinear dynamics, stochastic processes, irreversible thermodynamics, physical chemistry and biochemistry together in an introductory but formal and comprehensive manner.

This book describes in detail the potential role of ICT and electronic systems, together with the application of Web 2.

This book addresses the need for a unified framework describing how soft computing and machine learning techniques can be judiciously formulated and used in building efficient pattern recognition models.