Paola Lecca – författare

Computational Systems Biology: Inference and Modelling provides an introduction to, and overview of, network analysis inference approaches which form the backbone of the model of the complex behavior of biological systems.

This book addresses the challenge to integrate highly diverse quantitative approaches into a unified framework by highlighting the relationships existing among network analysis, inference, and modeling.

The chapters are light in jargon and technical detail so as to make them accessible to the non-specialist reader. The book is addressed at the heterogeneous public of modelers, biologists, and computer scientists.

Provides a unified presentation of network inference, analysis, and modeling Explores the connection between math and systems biology, providing a framework to learn to analyze, infer, simulate, and modulate the behavior of complex biological systems Includes chapters in modular format for learning the basics quickly and in the context of questions posed by systems biology Offers a direct style and flexible formalism all through the exposition of mathematical concepts and biological applications

Quantum physics provides the concepts and their mathematical formalization that lend themselves to describe important properties of biological networks topology, such as vulnerability to external stress and their dynamic response to changing physiological conditions. A theory of networks enhanced with mathematical concepts and tools of quantum physics opens a new area of biological physics, the one of systems biological physics.

Big Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence for Medical Sciences Overview of the current state of the art on the use of artificial intelligence in medicine and biology Big Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence for Medical Sciences demonstrates the efforts made in the fields of Computational Biology and medical sciences to design and implement robust, accurate, and efficient computer algorithms for modeling the behavior of complex biological systems much faster than using traditional modeling approaches based solely on theory. With chapters written by international experts in the field of medical and biological research, Big Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence for Medical Sciences includes information on: Studies conducted by the authors which are the result of years of interdisciplinary collaborations with clinicians, computer scientists, mathematicians, and engineersDifferences between traditional computational approaches to data processing (those of mathematical biology) versus the experiment-data-theory-model-validation cycleExisting approaches to the use of big data in the healthcare industry, such as through IBM’s Watson Oncology, Microsoft’s Hanover, and Google’s DeepMindDifficulties in the field that have arisen as a result of technological changes, and potential future directions these changes may takeA timely and up-to-date resource on the integration of artificial intelligence in medicine and biology, Big Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence for Medical Sciences is of great benefit not only to professional scholars, but also MSc or PhD program students eager to explore advancement in the field.

Quantum physics provides the concepts and their mathematical formalization that lend themselves to describe important properties of biological networks topology, such as vulnerability to external stress and their dynamic response to changing physiological conditions. A theory of networks enhanced with mathematical concepts and tools of quantum physics opens a new area of biological physics, the one of systems biological physics.

Systemic Approaches in Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Biology: Recent Advances presents new techniques that have resulted from the application of computer science methods to the organization and interpretation of biological data. The book covers three subject areas: bioinformatics, computational biology, and computational systems biology. It focuses on recent, systemic approaches in computer science and mathematics that have been used to model, simulate, and more generally, experiment with biological phenomena at any scale.

Stochastic kinetic methods are currently considered to be the most realistic and elegant means of representing and simulating the dynamics of biochemical and biological networks. Deterministic versus stochastic modelling in biochemistry and systems biology introduces and critically reviews the deterministic and stochastic foundations of biochemical kinetics, covering applied stochastic process theory for application in the field of modelling and simulation of biological processes at the molecular scale. Following an overview of deterministic chemical kinetics and the stochastic approach to biochemical kinetics, the book goes onto discuss the specifics of stochastic simulation algorithms, modelling in systems biology and the structure of biochemical models. Later chapters cover reaction-diffusion systems, and provide an analysis of the Kinfer and BlenX software systems. The final chapter looks at simulation of ecodynamics and food web dynamics.Introduces mathematical concepts and formalisms of deterministic and stochastic modelling through clear and simple examplesPresents recently developed discrete stochastic formalisms for modelling biological systems and processesDescribes and applies stochastic simulation algorithms to implement a stochastic formulation of biochemical and biological kinetics

This introductory guide provides a thorough explanation of the mathematics and algorithms used in standard data analysis techniques within systems biology, biochemistry, and biophysics. Ideal for students planning for a career in research, early-career researchers, and established scientists undertaking interdisciplinary research.

This introductory guide provides a thorough explanation of the mathematics and algorithms used in standard data analysis techniques within systems biology, biochemistry, and biophysics. Ideal for students planning for a career in research, early-career researchers, and established scientists undertaking interdisciplinary research.

This richly illustrated book presents the latest techniques for the identifiability analysis and standard and robust regression analysis of complex dynamical models, and looks at their objectives.

The application of methodological approaches and mathematical formalisms proper to Physics and Engineering to investigate and describe biological processes and design biological structures has led to the development of many disciplines in the context of computational biology and biotechnology. The best known applicative domain is tissue engineering and its branches. Recent domains of interest are in the field of biophysics, e.g.: multiscale mechanics of biological membranes and films and filaments; multiscale mechanics of adhesion; biomolecular motors and force generation. Modern hypotheses, models, and tools are currently emerging and resulting from the convergence of the methods and phylosophycal apporaches of the different research areas and disciplines. All these emerging approaches share the purpose of disentangling the complexity of organisms, tissues, and cells and mimiking the function of living systems.The contributions presented in this book are current research highlights of six challenging and representative applicative domains of phyisical, engineering, and computational approaches in medicine and biology, i.e tissue engineering, modelling of molecular structures, cell mechanics and cell adhesión processes, cancer physics, and physico-chemical processes of metabolic interactions. Each chapter presents a compendium or a review of the original results achieved by authors  in the last years. Furthermore, the book also wants to pinpoint the questions that are still open and that could propel the future research.