Bioinformatics The Machine Learning Approach by Pierre Baldi and Soren Brunak
An unprecedented wealth of data is being generated by genome sequencing projects and other experimental efforts to determine the structure and function of biological molecules. The demands and opportunities for interpreting these data are expanding rapidly. Bioinformatics is the development and application of computer methods for management, analysis, interpretation, and prediction, as well as for the design of experiments. Machine learning approaches (e.g., neural networks, hidden Markov models, and belief networks) are ideally suited for areas where there is a lot of data but little theory, which is the situation in molecular biology. The goal in machine learning is to extract useful information from a body of data by building good probabilistic models―and to automate the process as much as possible.
In this book Pierre Baldi and Soren Brunak present the key machine learning approaches and apply them to the computational problems encountered in the analysis of biological data. The book is aimed both at biologists and biochemists who need to understand new data-driven algorithms and at those with a primary background in physics, mathematics, statistics, or computer science who need to know more about applications in molecular biology.
Product details
Series: Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series
Hardcover: 476 pages
Publisher: A Bradford Book; second edition edition (August 1, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 026202506X
ISBN-13: 978-0262025065
Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.2 x 9 inches
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