Computation in Cells and Tissues
Subtitle: Perspectives and Tools of Thought
By: edited by Ray Paton, Hamid Bolouri, Mike Holcombe, J. Howard Parish, Richard Tateson
Contributors: Bolouri, Hamid; Holcombe, Mike; Parish, J. Howard; Tateson, Richard
Series: Natural Computing Series; Natural Computing Series
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9783642055690; 9783662063699
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Computer simulation; Computer science; Information theory; Bioinformatics
Description: This book deals with key issues in the emerging interdisciplinary area involving cellular systems, computational modelling, and biologically inspired computing. This highly multidisciplinary book offers a unique blend of topical contributions that are written by biologists, computer scientists and mathematicians with non-expert readers in mind. It reflects important trends and developments in this exciting field of science. The volume can serve as a textbook and reference book for advanced students and computer scientists, biologists, and mathematicians.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Emerging CytoComputational Metaphors; title: Macromolecular Structures, Functions, and Networks; title: Hierarchies and Integration; title: Index.