Ruby Programming for Medicine and Biology (Jones and Bartlett Series in Biomedical Informatics) (Jones and Bartlett Series in Biomedical Informatics) - Softcover

Jules J. Berman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0763750905 ISBN 13: 9780763750909

Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc, 2007

Synopsis

Once again, Jules J. Berman provides biomedical researchers and hospital professionals with an introduction to a time-saving programming language. In this new how-to manual, Berman expertly guides both experienced and inexperienced programmers through the Ruby programming language. Ruby Programming for Medicine and Biology opens with three chapters of Ruby language instruction followed by discussions of 100 ruby scripts covering the most common computational tasks in the field of biomedicine. With helpful explanations of how scripts work, and how they might be implemented in real-world situations, readers will become familiar with this free, open source, object-oriented programming language that is quickly gaining momentum within the bioinformatics community.

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About the Author

Jules Berman received his bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and Earth and Planetary Sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his Ph.D. from Temple University, and his M.D. from the University of Miami. He received post-doctoral training in the Laboratory of Experimental Pathology in the National Cancer Institute, at NIH. He received residency training at the George Washington University Medical Center and is board certified in anatomic pathology and in cytopathology. He served as the chief of anatomic pathology at the VA Hospital in Baltimore where he held adjunct appointments at Johns Hopkins Medical Center and the University of Maryland Medical Center. From 1998 to 2005 he was program director for Pathology Informatics in the Cancer Diagnosis Program at the National Cancer Institute. Jules Berman has first-authored more than 100 publications. He is now a free-lance author and the past President of the Association for Pathology Informatics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0763750905
• ISBN 13: 9780763750909
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 378