computational biology

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meaningsofcomputationalandbiology

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computational
adjective
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/kɒm.pjəˈteɪ.ʃən.əl/us
/kɑːm.pjəˈteɪ.ʃən.əl/
formal
involving the calculation of answers, amounts, ...
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biology
noun[U]
uk
/baɪˈɒl.ə.dʒi/us
/baɪˈɑː.lə.dʒi/
the scientific study of the natural processes of ...
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In this review, we describe howcomputationalbiologyapproaches can be used to achieve this goal.
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It also helps to make clearer the connections between natural language processing and other areas such as combinatorial pattern matching andcomputationalbiology.
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In the pharmaceutical industry,computationalbiologyinvolves the modeling of biomolecular systems.
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This combination of experimental andcomputationalbiologydefines a powerful approach to understanding the mechanisms of molecular evolution.
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Based on the authors' extensive experience fromcomputationalbiologycourses, the book caters for this in two ways.
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By contrast, the notion of agents incomputationalbiologysuggests designing agent-based systems, tools and languages for modelling the biological processes (pathways) themselves.
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Bioinformatics andcomputationalbiologyare emerging disciplines that use information technology to organize, analyse and distribute biological information in order to answer complex biological questions.
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In this article we describe howcomputationalbiologycan be used to achieve such integration.
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By contrast,computationalbiologyrefers to the development and use of analytical data and theoretical methods, mathematical modelling and simulation techniques aimed at studying biological, behavioural, and social systems.
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Computationalbiologyis a powerful approach that can help identify and elucidate mechanistic interactions between various components of the cell and predict their effect on the whole-cell behavior.
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Galaxy aims to give biomedical researchers access tocomputationalbiologywithout also requiring them to understand computer programming.
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Particular applications include routing and communications networks,computationalbiology, and computational finance.
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There are many different reasons why opensource software is beneficial to the analysis of microarray data and tocomputationalbiologyin general.
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The project is overseen by an advisory board representatives from the field of human genetics,computationalbiology, ethics and law.
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They provide reviews on software, tutorials for open source software, and display information on upcomingcomputationalbiologyconferences.
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She works in the area of mathematical andcomputationalbiologyand complex systems, especially spatiotemporal organization in biological systems.
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It was originally a concept from genetics but is now used in biochemistry, population genetics,computationalbiologyand evolutionary biology.
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This result opens up a rich new set of applications for this technique incomputationalbiology.
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Statistical genetics is a type ofcomputationalbiology.
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