Information Processing and Biological Systems - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3642267351 ISBN 13 : 9783642267352

Editeur : Springer, 2013

Synopsis

Living beings require constant information processing for survival. In cells, information is being processed and propagated at various levels, from the gene regulatory network to chemical pathways, to the interaction with the environment. How this is achieved and how information is coded is still poorly understood. For example, what a cell interprets as information in the temporal level of an mRNA and what is interpreted as noise remains an open question. Recently, information theoretical methods and other tools, developed in the context of engineering and natural sciences, have been applied to study diverse biological processes. This book covers the latest findings on how information is processed in various biological processes, ranging from information processing and propagation in gene regulatory networks to information processing in natural language. An overview is presented of the state-of-the-art in information processing in biological systems and the opinion of current leaders in this research field on future research directions.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Living beings are required to process information constantly just to survive, yet how this is achieved and how information is coded is still poorly understood. This book maps the current state of our knowledge in this field, from gene regulation to language.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3642267351
• ISBN 13: 9783642267352
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Éditeur: Niiranen Samuli, Ribeiro Andre
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