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Stevens, Hallam

 
9780226080208: Life Out of Sequence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 022608020X ISBN 13 : 9780226080208
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2013

Synopsis

Thirty years ago, the most likely place to find a biologist was standing at a laboratory bench, peering down a microscope, surrounded by flasks of chemicals and petri dishes full of bacteria. Today, you are just as likely to find him or her in a room that looks more like an office, poring over lines of code on computer screens. The use of computers in biology has radically transformed who biologists are, what they do, and how they understand life. In Life Out of Sequence, Hallam Stevens looks inside this new landscape of digital scientific work.

Stevens chronicles the emergence of bioinformatics—the mode of working across and between biology, computing, mathematics, and statistics—from the 1960s to the present, seeking to understand how knowledge about life is made in and through virtual spaces. He shows how scientific data moves from living organisms into DNA sequencing machines, through software, and into databases, images, and scientific publications. What he reveals is a biology very different from the one of predigital days: a biology that includes not only biologists but also highly interdisciplinary teams of managers and workers; a biology that is more centered on DNA sequencing, but one that understands sequence in terms of dynamic cascades and highly interconnected networks. Life Out of Sequence thus offers the computational biology community welcome context for their own work while also giving the public a frontline perspective of what is going on in this rapidly changing field.


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À propos de l'auteur

Hallam Stevens is associate professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and the author of Life Out of Sequence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
022608020X
ISBN 13 
9780226080208
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
294
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780226080178: Life Out of Sequence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics

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ISBN 10 :  022608017X ISBN 13 :  9780226080178
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2013
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