The eight-volume set LNCS 12901, 12902, 12903, 12904, 12905, 12906, 12907, and 12908 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2021, held in Strasbourg, France, in September/Oct…
This book addresses a number of questions from the perspective of complex systems: How can we quantitatively understand the life phenomena? How can we model life systems as complex bio-molecular networks? Are there any methods to clarify the relationships among the structures, d…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2020, held in São Paulo, Brazil, in November 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually The 20 revised full papers and 5 short papers were carefully reviewed an…
This textbook is focused on the fundamental skills of bioinformatics: the analysis of DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. The chapters take the reader through a commonly asked question, “What can I learn about this sequence?” The only requirement is access to the Internet and a web…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third MICCAI Workshop on Domain Adaptation and Representation Transfer, DART 2021, and the First MICCAI Workshop on Affordable Healthcare and AI for Resource Diverse Global Health, FAIR 2021, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2…
This new edition captures the advances made in the field of evolutionary systems biology since the publication of the first edition. The first edition focused on laying the foundations of evolutionary systems biology as an interdisciplinary field, where a way of thinking and ask…
This book highlights the latest research on practical applications of computational biology and bioinformatics, and addresses emerging experimental and sequencing techniques that are posing new challenges for bioinformatics and computational biology. Successfully applying these …
This book provides a practically applicable guide to the methodologies and technologies for the application of interactive process mining paradigm. Case studies are presented where this paradigm has been successfully applied in emergency medicine, surgery processes, human behavi…
Your Passport to a Career in Bioinformatics
This book which is the second edition of Your Passport to a Career in Bioinformatics, is intended for students who plan to work in bioinformatics. In addition to addressing the opportunities and challenges faced by today's bioinformatics community, it demonstrates how bioinforma…
Obesity and Cancer
This book highlights the concordance between signaling pathways that are involved in obesity and cancer cross-talks. It describes the role of cytokines, chemokines, growth factors, insulin, and adipokines in the development of obesity-associated cancers. The book reviews the rol…
QM/MM Studies of Light-responsive Biological Systems
This book, a consecutive contribution to the series Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics, focuses on understanding the photoinduced processes in biological systems. Understanding and fine control of light fate in molecules is vital for the progress of s…
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed a major threat to human life and health. This book is beneficial for interdisciplinary students, researchers, and professionals to understand COVID-19 and how computational intelligence can be used for the purpose …
This book gathers outstanding research papers presented at the International Conference on Frontiers in Computing and Systems (COMSYS 2020), held on January 13-15, 2019 at Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, West Bengal, India and jointly organized by the Department of Co…
This book comprehensively reviews the various automated and semi-automated signal and image processing techniques, as well as deep-learning-based image analysis techniques, used in healthcare diagnostics. It highlights a range of data pre-processing methods used in signal proces…
This second edition expands upon and updates the vital research covered in its predecessor, by presenting state-of-the-art multidisciplinary and systems-oriented approaches to complex diseases arising from and driven by the acute inflammatory response. The chapters in this volum…
Every researcher in genomics and proteomics now has access to public domain databases containing literally billions of data entries. However, without the right analytical tools, and an understanding of the biological significance of the data, cataloging and interpreting the mole…
"As with the first edition of Bioinformatics Basics: Applications in Biological Science and Medicine, this second edition continues to answer the scientific community's need to learn about the bioinformatics tools available, while also providing the understanding to apply those …