Ruby programming for medicine and biology
By: Jules J. Berman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Sudbury MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780763750909
Subjects: Medicine -- Data processing; Biology -- Data processing; Ruby (Computer program language); Medical Informatics; Programming Languages; Computational Biology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview of the Ruby language (level 1); title: Survey of Ruby classes and the Ruby standard library (level 1); title: Object orientation in Ruby (level 2); title: Ruby extensions and standard libraries (level 2); title: Biomedical data files used in later chapters (level 1); title: Using Ruby strings, hashes, arrays, files, and directories (level 1); title: Pattern searching with regular expressions (level 1); title: File/dataset transformations (level 1); title: Indexing text (level 1); title: Searching and mining data (level 1); title: Scrubbing confidential medical data (level 1); title: Autocoding biomedical data using nomenclatures (level 3); title: Some mathematical and statistical methods (level 2); title: Cryptography and deidentification (level 2); title: Common gateway interface, CGI (level 4); title: Enter Ruby on rails (level 4); title: The bioinformatics library, Bio, and Ruby (level 3); title: Ruby and RDF (level 3); title: Ruby and biological classifications (level 3); title: Book summary (level 3).