Junker / Schreiber Analysis of Biological Networks

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-25346-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Series in Bioinformatics

An introduction to biological networks and methods for theiranalysis
Analysis of Biological Networks is the first book of itskind to provide readers with a comprehensive introduction to thestructural analysis of biological networks at the interface ofbiology and computer science. The book begins with a brief overviewof biological networks and graph theory/graph algorithms and goeson to explore: global network properties, network centralities,network motifs, network clustering, Petri nets, signal transductionand gene regulation networks, protein interaction networks,metabolic networks, phylogenetic networks, ecological networks, andcorrelation networks.
Analysis of Biological Networks is a self-containedintroduction to this important research topic, assumes no expertknowledge in computer science or biology, and is accessible toprofessionals and students alike. Each chapter concludes with asummary of main points and with exercises for readers to test theirunderstanding of the material presented. Additionally, an FTP sitewith links to author-provided data for the book is available fordeeper study.
This book is suitable as a resource for researchers in computerscience, biology, bioinformatics, advanced biochemistry, and thelife sciences, and also serves as an ideal reference text forgraduate-level courses in bioinformatics and biologicalresearch.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Junker, Björn H.

Schreiber, Falk

Über Autor(innen)

Björn H. Junker is a biologist with a strong backgroundin bioinformatics. His current research activities include thequantitative analysis and modeling of metabolic networks, as wellas pathway databases and visual data mining. Mr. Junker has been atthe Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research inGermany since 2003. He worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory inNew York during 2006 and was appointed as project leader at theLeibniz Institute in 2007.
Falk Schreiber is a computer scientist who has worked inbioinformatics for more than ten years. His current research areasinclude modeling, analysis, and visualization of biologicalnetworks; graph algorithms; and data exploration and informationvisualization in the life sciences. Since 2003, he has been head ofthe Network Analysis Research Group at the Leibniz Institute ofPlant Genetics and Crop Plant Research. He was appointed professorof bioinformatics at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg,Germany, in 2007.