STATISTICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY ANALYSIS OF BIOLOGICAL NETWORKS - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848164335 ISBN 13: 9781848164338

Publisher: Imperial College Press, 2010

Synopsis

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About this title

From the Back Cover

Networks provide a very useful way to describe a wide range of different data types in biology, physics and elsewhere. Apart from providing a convenient tool to visualize highly dependent data, networks allow stringent mathematical and statistical analysis.

In recent years, much progress has been achieved to interpret various types of biological network data such as transcriptomic, metabolomic and protein interaction data as well as epidemiological data. Of particular interest is to understand the organization, complexity and dynamics of biological networks and how these are influenced by network evolution and functionality.

This book reviews and explores statistical, mathematical and evolutionary theory and tools in the understanding of biological networks. The book is divided into comprehensive and self-contained chapters, each of which focuses on an important biological network type, explains concepts and theory and illustrates how these can be used to obtain insight into biologically relevant processes and questions. There are chapters covering metabolic, transcriptomic, protein interaction and epidemiological networks as well as chapters that deal with theoretical and conceptual material. The authors, who contribute to the book, are active, highly regarded and well-known in the network community.

Edition details

• Publisher: Imperial College Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848164335
• ISBN 13: 9781848164338
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 180
• Editor: Michael P. H. Stumpf, Carsten Wiuf