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  1-10 of 188 Reviews about "Biology And Genetics (J.3...)": Date Reviewed
  Life as no one knows it: the physics of life’s emergence
Walker S., Penguin Random House,  New York, NY, 2024. 272 pp.  Type: Book (9780593191897)

Sara Walker’s Life as no one knows it arrives on the heels of extensive media coverage and promotional efforts that have catapulted it into bestseller status. I approached this book with a sense of anticipation, especially eager to ex...

Apr 11 2025
  Introduction to data science in biostatistics: using R, the tidyverse ecosystem, and APIs
MacFarland T., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2024. 528 pp.  Type: Book (9783031463822)

When thinking about data science and biostatistics, it is reasonably certain that the statistical programming language R will be included as one of the most important tools. In this problem space, one can think of R as present in a couple of ways:...

Mar 13 2025
   Living computers
Brazma A., Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2024. 320 pp.  Type: Book (0192871943)

Living computers is simultaneously philosophical and scientific. Brazma begins with the following claim: “Life and the recording of information emerged together; there is no life without information and, arguably, there is no informat...

Apr 12 2024
   The consciousness revolutions: from amoeba awareness to human emancipation
Edelman S., Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 2023. 236 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-031-24012-6)

2001: A Space Odyssey celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2018. In Stanley Kubrick’s groundbreaking movie, HAL, a computer, is the psychologically flawed tragic figure that drives the action. HAL was designed to be a fully conscious be...

Oct 9 2023
  Genetic programming theory and practice XIV
Riolo R., Worzel B., Goldman B., Tozier B., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2018. 227 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319970-87-5)

This book, part of Springer’s “Genetic and Evolutionary Computation” series, contains the proceedings of the “14th meeting of the annual Genetic Programming Theory and Practice Workshop, [held] b...

Nov 12 2020
  Advances in Physarum machines: sensing and computing with slime mould
Adamatzky A., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2016. 839 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319266-61-9), Reviews: (2 of 2)

The idea of computing with deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecules first received attention in 1987, from the mathematician Tom Head [1]. In 1994, in a seminal paper [2], Adleman solved an instance of a Hamiltonian path problem using DNA...

Mar 13 2020
  Scalable big data analytics for protein bioinformatics: efficient computational solutions for protein structures
Mrozek D., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2018. 315 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319988-38-2)

High-performance computing (HPC) refers to the use of large computational resources for solving computationally hard and data-intensive problems. Big data refers to “the exponential growth ... of data, both structured and uns...

Jun 6 2019
  Regularized non-negative matrix factorization for identifying differentially expressed genes and clustering samples: a survey
Liu J., Wang D., Gao Y., Zheng C., Xu Y., Yu J. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 15(3): 974-987, 2018.  Type: Article

This paper surveys the application of non-negative matrix factorization (NMF), a well-known dimensionality reduction technique in bioinformatics “for identifying differentially expressed genes and clustering samples.̶...

Apr 5 2019
  A brave new world of genetic engineering
Greengard S. Communications of the ACM 62(2): 11-13, 2019.  Type: Article

While CRISPR, Gene Knockout Kit (GKO), and cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) may be acronyms unknown to the larger computer science (CS) community, they are well known in genetic engineering research. Software and hardware are extendi...

Apr 1 2019
  Computational phylogenetics: an introduction to designing methods for phylogeny estimation
Warnow T., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2018. 394 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-107184-71-8)

Evolutionary biology broadly covers phylogeny or the phylogenetic tree, representing the relationships among individuals or groups of organisms. Specifically, computational phylogenetics deals with the implementation of computational m...

Nov 14 2018
 
 
 
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