Information Processing And Living Systems

丛 书 名：Series On Advances In Bioinformatics And Computational Biology

版本说明：illustrated edition

作     者：Vladimir B Bajic Tin Wee Tan 

I S B N：(纸本) 9781860945632 

出 版 社：World Scientific Publishing Company 

出 版 年：2005年

页      数：799页

主 题 词：Life Sciences Biology 

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 07[理学] 08[工学] 09[农学] 0901[农学-作物学] 0836[工学-生物工程] 090102[农学-作物遗传育种] 

摘      要：Information processing and information flow occur in the course of an organism s development and throughout its lifespan. Organisms do not exist in isolation, but interact with each other constantly within a complex ecosystem. The relationships between organisms, such as those between prey or predator, host and parasite, and between mating partners, are complex and multidimensional. In all cases, there is constant communication and information flow at many *** book focuses on information processing by life forms and the use of information technology in understanding them. Readers are first given a comprehensive overview of biocomputing before navigating the complex terrain of natural processing of biological information using physiological and analogous computing models. The remainder of the book deals with “artificial processing of biological information as a human endeavor in order to derive new knowledge and gain insight into life forms and their functioning. Specific innovative applications and tools for biological discovery are provided as the link and complement to *** “artificial processing of biological information is complementary to natural processing, a better understanding of the former helps us improve the latter. Consequently, readers are exposed to both domains and, when dealing with biological problems of their interest, will be better equipped to grasp relevant ideas.