Life Science Automation Fundamentals and Applications (Bioinformatics & Biomedical Imaging) - Hardcover

Mingjun Zhang

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1596931051 ISBN 13: 9781596931053

Publisher: Artech House, 2007

Synopsis

Automation is facilitating incredible breakthroughs in everything from healthcare, pharmacology, and biotechnology to nanotechnology and genomics. Automation developers, scientists, and technicians need an increasingly sophisticated understanding of both the biological sciences and the engineering involved, and this comprehensive resource is the first interdisciplinary work that truly delivers. After a solid grounding in life science and automation engineering essentials, this indispensable resource describes state-of-the-art techniques for the design and development of sensors and actuators, lab-on-a-chip and bio-MEMs platforms, DNA and protein microarray fabrication automation, and drug delivery automation. It then demonstrates how these tools can be successfully integrated in larger-scale scale automation systems in areas like bio-instrumentation, cell and tissue manipulation, and laboratory automation.

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About the Author

Mingjun Zhang is an R&D engineer for Agilent Technologies, Palo Alto, California. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automated Science and Engineering. Bradley Nelson is a professor of robotics and intelligent systems at ETH-Zurich, and director of the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Switzerland. Professor Nelson serves on, or has been a member of, the editorial boards of the IEEE Transaction on Robotics, The Journal of Micromechatronics, and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine. Robin Felder is director of the Medical Automation Research Center and Professor of Pathology at the University of Virginia. Dr. Felder founded the Association for Laboratory Automation, and was founding Editor of the Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Artech House
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1596931051
• ISBN 13: 9781596931053
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 530