Computational biology / bioinformatics

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, CMSB 2022, held in Bucharest, Romania, in September 2022.

The basic goal of the volume is to compile the most up to date research on the effect of ecotourism on Indonesia's primates.

This handbook in two volumes offers a heretofore unavailable compilation of detailed information on foraminifera of the Caspian-Black Sea-Mediterranean Corridors ("e;CORRIDORS"e;), including their taxonomy, ecology, and applications in the study of Quaternary stratigraphy, paleogeographic reconstruction, and environmental stress.

This book offers an accessible introduction to random walk and diffusion models at a level consistent with the typical background of students in the life sciences.

This book serves as a brief introduction to phylogenetic trees and molecular evolution for biologists and biology students.

 This set of teaching notes provides extensive guidance for educators related to its sister title and contains numerous tools and questions to help educators provide didactics and evaluation of students in this essential area of biomedical informatics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration, WBIR 2020, which was supposed to be held in Munich, Germany, in July 2022.

This book gathers selected, extended and revised contributions to the 17th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering and the 5th Conference on Imaging and Visualization (CMBBE 2021), held online on September 7-9, 2021, from Bonn, Germany.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Work-Conference on IWBBIO 2020, held in Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain, in June 2022.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Work-Conference on IWBBIO 2020, held in Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain, in June 2022.

This new edition of the classic textbook provides bold and honest descriptions of the current and evolving state of US healthcare information technology.

The three-dimensional structure and function of molecules present many challenges and opportunities for developing an understanding of biological systems.

This book explores the importance of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) in biomedical research.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Annual RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Comparative Genomics, RECOMB-CG which took place in La Jolla, USA, during May 20-21, 2022.

This new volume, a part of the Proteomics, Metabolomics, Interactomics and Systems Biology series, will explain how proteomic studies of post-translational modifications (PTMs) can be applied to neurodegenerative diseases and relevant studies.

This book looks at how AgeTech can support the autonomy and independence of people as they grow older.

Sensitive periods occur when unique experiences permanently influence brain development either by their presence or absence.

Many applications in different domains need to calculate the shortest-path between two points in a graph.

This book introduces a class of alignment models based on the so-called Cucker-Smale system as well as its kinetic and hydrodynamic counterparts.

To date, processing of high-throughput Mass Spectrometry (MS) data is accomplished using serial algorithms.

Stroke and spinal cord injury often result in paralysis with serious negative consequences to the independence and quality of life of those who sustain them.

This book describes an overlooked solution to a long-standing problem in health care.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most prevalent childhood psychiatric condition, with estimates of more than 5% of children affected worldwide, and has a profound public health, personal, and family impact.

This book explores the ways in which AgeTech can contribute to healthy cognitive aging and support the independence of people with dementia.

This book provides an in-depth review of the historical and state-of-the-art use of technology by and for individuals with autism.

This book introduces zero-effort technologies (ZETs), an emerging class of technologies that require little or no effort from the people who use them.

Have you ever experienced the burden of an adverse event or a near-miss in healthcare and wished there was a way to mitigate it?

Assistive Technology Design for Intelligence Augmentation presents a series of frameworks, perspectives, and design guidelines drawn from disciplines spanning urban design, artificial intelligence, sociology, and new forms of collaborative work, as well as the author's experience in designing systems for people with cognitive disabilities.

Within the context of healthcare, there has been a long-standing interest in understanding the posture and movement of the human body.

Approximately 10% of North Americans have some communication disorder.

Designed Technologies for Healthy Aging identifies and presents a variety of contemporary technologies to support older adults' abilities to perform everyday activities.

Conducting fieldwork for investigating technology use in healthcare is a challenging undertaking, and yet there is little in the way of community support and guidance for conducting these studies.

Performing fieldwork in healthcare settings is significantly different from fieldwork in other domains and it presents unique challenges to researchers.

Computer software has been productive in helping individuals with cognitive disabilities.

Demographic trends and increasing support costs means that good design for older and disabled people is an economic necessity, as well as a moral imperative.

This book covers recent trends and applications of nonlinear dynamics in various branches of society, science, and engineering.

This book provides a brief but accessible introduction to a set of related, mathematical ideas that have proved useful in understanding the brain and behaviour.

This book provides an interdisciplinary look at emerging trends in signal processing and biomedicine found at the intersection of healthcare, engineering, and computer science.

Dramatic advances in computing power enable simulation of DNA sequences generated by complex microevolutionary scenarios that include mutation, population structure, natural selection, meiotic recombination, demographic change, and explicit spatial geographies.

Over the past decade, neuroproteomics has shed light on the molecular features of schizophrenia by depicting biological processes involved with its establishment, maintenance and treatment.

This book gathers selected papers from the First International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine.

This contributed volume investigates several mathematical techniques for the modeling and simulation of viral pandemics, with a special focus on COVID-19.

This book includes contributions about mathematics, physics, philosophy of science, economics and finance and resulted from the Summer School "e;Complexity and Emergence: Ideas, Methods, with a Special Attention to Economics and Finance"e; held in Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, on 22-27 July 2018.

This highly interdisciplinary book, covering more than six fields, from philosophy and sciences all the way up to the humanities and with contributions from eminent authors, addresses the interplay between content and context, reductionism and holism and their meeting point: the notion of emergence.

This book is the first comprehensive compilation describing the importance of sandalwood in national and international markets, genetic resources, molecular markers, whole genome sequencing, and pathway genes involved in oil biosynthesis, aroma and fragrance.

Soil is an important but often neglected element of the climate system.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies, held in September 2021.

This book brings together what is currently known in terms of basic research in the field of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) and builds on this to delve more deeply in the specific roles that lncRNAs are playing during inflammation.

This book presents a set of soft computing approaches and their application in data analytics, classification model, and control.

This is a book about software engineering, bioinformatics, the C++ programming language and the SeqAn library.