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Biological modeling and simulation : a survey of practical models, algorithms, and numerical methods
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Biological modeling and simulation : a survey of practical models, algorithms, and numerical methods

Author: Russell Schwartz
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Series: Computational molecular biology series.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A practice-oriented survey of techniques for computational modeling and simulation suitable for a broad range of biological problems.

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Russell Schwartz
ISBN: 9780262195843 0262195844
OCLC Number: 192050050
Description: xii, 389 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Classic discrete optimization problems --
Hard discrete optimization problems --
Case study : sequence assembly --
General continuous optimization --
Constrained optimization --
Sampling from probability distributions --
Markov models --
Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling --
Mixing times of Markov models --
Continuous-time Markov models --
Case study : molecular evolution --
Discrete event simulation --
Numerical integration 1 : ordinary differential equations --
Numerical integration 2 : partial differential equations --
Numerical integration 3 : stochastic differential equations --
Case study : simulating cellular biochemistry --
Parameter-tuning as optimization --
Expectation maximization --
Hidden Markov models --
Linear system-solving --
Interpolation and extrapolation --
Case study : inferring gene regulatory networks --
Model validation.
Series Title: Computational molecular biology series.
Responsibility: Russell Schwartz.
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"In twenty-first-century biology, modeling has a similar role as the microscope had in earlier centuries; it is arguably the most important research tool for studying complex phenomena and processes Read more...

 
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