Bioinformatics and biomarker discovery "omic" data analysis for personalised medicine

This book is designed to introduce biologists, clinicians and computational researchers to fundamental data analysis principles, techniques and tools for supporting the discovery of biomarkers and the implementation of diagnostic/prognostic systems. The focus of the book is on how fundamental statis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Azuaje, Francisco
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. John Wiley & Sons 2010
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This book is designed to introduce biologists, clinicians and computational researchers to fundamental data analysis principles, techniques and tools for supporting the discovery of biomarkers and the implementation of diagnostic/prognostic systems. The focus of the book is on how fundamental statistical and data mining approaches can support biomarker discovery and evaluation, emphasising applications based on different types of ""omic"" data. The book also discusses design factors, requirements and techniques for disease screening, diagnostic and prognostic applications. Readers are prov
Physical Description:1 volume illustrations
ISBN:047074460X
1282456601
9780470744604