Java for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications

Johnny Hujol

ISBN 10: 0387372350 / ISBN 13: 9780387372358

Edité par Springer US, Springer US, 2006

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - April 2006 Introduction Bioinformatics is at a crossroads. We work in a field that is changing every day, increasingly moving from specific solutions created by single researchers working alone or in small groups to larger, often geographically dispersed programs enabled by collaborative computing and open software. This book represents an important development, giving the reader an opportunity to discover how the use of open and reusable Java code can solve large bioinformatics problems in a software engineered and robust way. I work with one of the authors of this book every day, on the National Cancer Institute's cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG(TM)) project, and I can attest that they are well suited to share with their readers both their experience in the development and use of bioinformatics software, as well as their interest in solid software engineering and interoperability. Background and history In its short history, bioinformatics has become an increasingly important part of how scientists involved in biological research go about their work. This has lead to an explosion of interest in the subject, and a similar explosion in tools and data resources for researchers to learn and use in their work. Historically, tools for bioinformatics have been idiosyncratic and are custom-developed by the end-users (or those close to them) in an iterative fashion until the specific immediate problem is solved. This has led to a balkanization of informatics systems, sometimes yielding multiple, incompatible systems at a single institution for a single application.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Java for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications
• Éditeur: Springer US, Springer US
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0387372350
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780387372358
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 241 L x 160 H x 27 P (en millimètres) 241 millimètres de largeur par 160 millimètres de hauteur par 27 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 778 grammes

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Synopsis

This book examines the tools being developed to meet the goal of eliminating suffering and death from cancer by 2015. It focuses on creating and integrating practical, useful tools for the scientific community in the context of real-life, real-value biomedical problems. From a software perspective, a functional approach is used to teach the Java platform and its features for enterprise-level application development. Under this approach, the various syntactical and operative elements of the language are taught in the context of definable research problems that enable the user to relate how the different parts of the language fit together. The book illustrates how individual bioinformatics applications can be stitched together into a pipeline so that users can direct the output of one tool to perform further analysis. All examples are derived from practical problems faced in biomedical/clinical data retrieval and analysis during routine bioinformatics and cancer research.