Biology In The Grid

Author : Phillip Thurtle
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781452957791

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How grids paved the way for our biological understanding of organisms As one of the most visual sciences, biology has an aesthetic dimension that lends force and persuasion to scientific arguments: how things are arranged on a page, how texts are interspersed with images, and how images are composed reflect deep-seated beliefs about how life exists on Earth. Biology in the Grid traces how our current understanding of life and genetics emerged from the pervasive nineteenth- and twentieth-century graphic form of the grid, which allowed disparate pieces of information to form what media theorist Vilém Flusser called “technical images.” Phillip Thurtle explains how the grid came to dominate biology in the twentieth century, transforming biologists’ beliefs about how organisms were constructed. He demonstrates how this shift in our understanding of biological grids enabled new philosophies in endeavors such as advertising, entertainment, and even political theory. The implications of the arguments in Biology in the Grid are profound, touching on matters as fundamental as desire, our understanding of our bodies, and our view of how society is composed. Moreover, Thurtle’s beautifully written, tightly focused arguments allow readers to apply his claims to new disciplines and systems. Bristling with insight and potential, Biology in the Grid ultimately suggests that such a grid-organized understanding of natural life inevitably has social and political dimensions, with society recognized as being made of interchangeable, regulated parts rather than as an organic whole.

Author : El-Ghazali Talbi,Albert Y. Zomaya
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0470191627

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Grid Computing for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology by El-Ghazali Talbi,Albert Y. Zomaya Pdf

The only single, up-to-date source for Grid issues in bioinformatics and biology Bioinformatics is fast emerging as an important discipline for academic research and industrial applications, creating a need for the use of Grid computing techniques for large-scale distributed applications. This book successfully presents Grid algorithms and their real-world applications, provides details on modern and ongoing research, and explores software frameworks that integrate bioinformatics and computational biology. Additional coverage includes: * Bio-ontology and data mining * Data visualization * DNA assembly, clustering, and mapping * Molecular evolution and phylogeny * Gene expression and micro-arrays * Molecular modeling and simulation * Sequence search and alignment * Protein structure prediction * Grid infrastructure, middleware, and tools for bio data Grid Computing for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology is an indispensable resource for professionals in several research and development communities including bioinformatics, computational biology, Grid computing, data mining, and more. It also serves as an ideal textbook for undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in bioinformatics and Grid computing.

Author : Werner Dubitzky,Assaf Schuster,Peter Sloot,Michael Schroeder,Mathilde Romberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540699682

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Distributed, High-Performance and Grid Computing in Computational Biology by Werner Dubitzky,Assaf Schuster,Peter Sloot,Michael Schroeder,Mathilde Romberg Pdf

The book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Distributed, High-Performance and Grid Computing in Computational Biology, GCCB 2006, held in Eilat, Israel in January 2007 in conjunction with the 5th European Conference on Computational Biology, ECCB 2006. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from many high quality submissions.

Author : F. Carminati,L. Betev,A. Grigoras
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : COMPUTERS
ISBN : 9781614996439

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Grid and Cloud Computing: Concepts and Practical Applications by F. Carminati,L. Betev,A. Grigoras Pdf

The distributed computing infrastructure known as ‘the Grid’ has undoubtedly been one of the most successful science-oriented large- scale IT projects of the past 20 years. It is now a fully operational international entity, encompassing several hundred computing sites on all continents and giving access to hundreds of thousands of CPU (central processing unit) cores and hundreds of petabytes of storage, all connected by robust national and international scientific networks. It has evolved to become the main computational platform many scientific communities. This book presents lectures from the Enrico Fermi International School of Physics summer school Grid and Cloud computing: Concepts and Practical Applications, held in Varenna, Italy, in July 2014. The school aimed to cover the conceptual and practical aspects of both the Grid and Cloud computing. The proceedings included here are divided into eight chapters, with chapters 1, 2, 3 and 8 covering general applications of Grid and Cloud computing in various scientific fields, while chapters 4, 5, 6 and 7 discuss specific technical areas of Grid and Cloud structures. The book will be of interest to all those whose work involves the use of the Grid or Cloud computing.

Author : Fran Berman,Geoffrey Fox,Anthony J. G. Hey
Publisher : John Wiley and Sons
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0470853190

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Grid Computing by Fran Berman,Geoffrey Fox,Anthony J. G. Hey Pdf

Unter "Grid Computing" versteht man die gleichzeitige Nutzung vieler Computer in einem Netzwerk für die Lösung eines einzelnen Problems. Grundsätzliche Aspekte und anwendungsbezogene Details zu diesem Gebiet finden Sie in diesem Band. - Grid Computing ist ein viel versprechender Trend, denn man kann damit (1) vorhandene Computer-Ressourcen kosteneffizient nutzen, (2) Probleme lösen, für die enorme Rechenleistungen erforderlich sind, und (3) Synergieeffekte erzielen, auch im globalen Maßstab - Ansatz ist in Forschung und Industrie (IBM, Sun, HP und andere) zunehmend populär (aktuelles Beispiel: Genomforschung) - Buch deckt Motivationen zur Einführung von Grids ebenso ab wie technologische Grundlagen und ausgewählte Beispiele für moderne Anwendungen

Author : Fred Van Dyke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402068904

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Conservation Biology by Fred Van Dyke Pdf

Fred Van Dyke’s new textbook, Conservation Biology: Foundations, Concepts, Applications, 2nd Edition, represents a major new text for anyone interested in conservation. Drawing on his vast experience, Van Dyke’s organizational clarity and readable style make this book an invaluable resource for students in conservation around the globe. Presenting key information and well-selected examples, this student-friendly volume carefully integrates the science of conservation biology with its implications for ethics, law, policy and economics.

Author : Corrado Priami,Falko Dressler,Ozgur Akan,Alioune Ngom
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540922728

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Transactions on Computational Systems Biology X by Corrado Priami,Falko Dressler,Ozgur Akan,Alioune Ngom Pdf

Technology is taking us to a world where myriads of heavily networked devices interact with the physical world in multiple ways, and at many levels, from the globalInternetdowntomicroandnanodevices. Manyofthesedevicesarehighly mobile and autonomous and must adapt to the surrounding environment in a totally unsupervised way. A fundamental research challenge is the design of robust decentralized c- puting systemsthat arecapableofoperating in changing environmentsandwith noisy input, and yet exhibit the desired behavior and response time, under c- straints such as energy consumption, size, and processing power. These systems should be able to adapt and learn how to react to unforeseen scenarios as well as to display properties comparable to social entities. The observation of nature has brought us many great and unforeseen concepts. Biological systems are able to handle many of these challenges with an elegance and e?ciency far beyond currenthumanartifacts. Basedonthisobservation,bio-inspiredapproacheshave been proposed as a means of handling the complexity of such systems. The goal is to obtain methods to engineer technical systems, which are of a stability and e?ciency comparable to those found in biological entities. This Special Issue on Biological and Biologically-inspired Communication contains the best papers from the Second International Conference on Bio- Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (BIONET- ICS 2007). The BIONETICS conference aims to bring together researchers and scientistsfromseveraldisciplines incomputerscienceandengineeringwhereb- inspired methods are investigated, as well as from bioinformatics, to deepen the information exchange and collaboration among the di?erent communities.

Author : Adrian-Horia Dediu,Carlos Martín-Vide,Bianca Truthe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319079530

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Algorithms for Computational Biology by Adrian-Horia Dediu,Carlos Martín-Vide,Bianca Truthe Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference, AlCoB 2014, held in July 2014 in Tarragona, Spain. The 20 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The scope of AlCoB includes topics of either theoretical or applied interest, namely: exact sequence analysis, approximate sequence analysis, pairwise sequence alignment, multiple sequence alignment, sequence assembly, genome rearrangement, regulatory motif finding, phylogeny reconstruction, phylogeny comparison, structure prediction, proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks, transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis, next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, microbiome analysis, systems biology.

Author : V. Breton
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781607501145

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From Grid to Healthgrid by V. Breton Pdf

This publication provides a forum for projects in the medical, biological and biomedical domains as well as for grid projects that seek to integrate these. The overall objective is to reinforce and promote the awareness of the deployment of grid technology in health. The emphasis is on results of current grid projects in health care. This will show in the outcome of field tests and will identify deployment strategies for prototype applications in health care. In addition, outstanding problem areas and technological challenges are identified and new solutions to these issues are proposed. From Grid to Healthgrid is divided in four themes: Knowledge and Data Management; Deployments of Grids in Health; Current Projects; and - Ethical, Legal, Social and Security Issues. The papers show that healthgrid has matured beyond its original projects and is now tackling some difficult problems that seemed intractable up till two years ago.

Author : M.A. (Eric) Hayat
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780323149860

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Correlative Microscopy In Biology by M.A. (Eric) Hayat Pdf

Correlative Microscopy in Biology: Instrumentation and Methods presents the detailed methodology of biological correlative microscopy, a technology that allows the acquisition of multiple data from single tissue block, cell, or section. The chapters in the book include detailed and complete instructions on the preparatory procedures. The book has 20 chapters that deal with various forms and systems of microscopy. Some of the forms and methods used in the book include light, scanning electron, fluorescence, scanning transmission electron, and ion microscopy, as well as combined light and electron and transmission electron microscope. Other methods and their applications are all discussed in detail in the book. This book will help students apply the methods without outside help as each methodology is presented in a step-by-step approach, including applications and techniques. Aside from students, the book will also be good reference for teachers, scientists, and researchers in the fields of biology, biochemistry, and medicine.

Author : Laurence Tianruo Yang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540680819

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Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing by Laurence Tianruo Yang Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing, GPC 2008, held in Kunming, China, in May 2008. The 45 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 184 submissions. The papers cover all current issues of grid and pervasive computing and focus on topics such as cluster computing, grid computing, high performance computing, network storage, peer-to-peer computing, pervasive computing, the Semantic Web and the Semantic Grid, and service-oriented computing.

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 2134 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781466608801

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Grid and Cloud Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications by Management Association, Information Resources Pdf

"This reference presents a vital compendium of research detailing the latest case studies, architectures, frameworks, methodologies, and research on Grid and Cloud Computing"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814472418

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Computational Structural Biology by Anonim Pdf

Author : European Across Grids Conference,European Across Grids Conference 2003
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540210481

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Grid Computing by European Across Grids Conference,European Across Grids Conference 2003 Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First European Across Grids Conference held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain in February 2003. The 39 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers address all current issues in grid computing, in particular grid middleware architectures, tools, resource management, job scheduling, data management, grid-based distant e-learning, stream-oriented database management, data stripping, large-scale grid applications, simulation, visualization, data mining, grid performance analysis, and grid monitoring.

Author : Carlos Martín-Vide,Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez,Travis Wheeler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030422660

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Algorithms for Computational Biology by Carlos Martín-Vide,Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez,Travis Wheeler Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Algorithms for Computational Biology, AlCoB 2020, was planned to be held in Missoula, MT, USA in April 2020. Due to the corona pandemic the conference was postponed to be held together with AlCoB 2021. The 15 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. They were organized in topical sections on genomics, phylogenetics, and RNA-Seq and other biological processes.