Modeling Biological Systems | Principles and Applications

James W. Haefner

ISBN 10: 0412042010 / ISBN 13: 9780412042010

Verlag: Humana, 1996

Modeling Biological Systems | Principles and Applications | James W. Haefner | Taschenbuch | xix | Englisch | 1996 | Humana | EAN 9780412042010 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 102997613

Inhaltsangabe:

This book is intended as a text for a first course on creating and analyzing computer simulation models of biological systems. The expected audience for this book are students wishing to use dynamic models to interpret real data mueh as they would use standard statistical techniques. It is meant to provide both the essential principles as well as the details and equa­ tions applicable to a few particular systems and subdisciplines. Biological systems, however, encompass a vast, diverse array of topics and problems. This book discusses only a select number of these that I have found to be useful and interesting to biologists just beginning their appreciation of computer simulation. The examples chosen span classical mathematical models of well-studied systems to state-of-the-art topics such as cellular automata and artificial life. I have stressed the relationship between the models and the biology over mathematical analysis in order to give the reader a sense that mathematical models really are useful to biologists. In this light, I have sought examples that address fundamental and, I think, interesting biological questions. Almost all of the models are directly COIIl­ pared to quantitative data to provide at least a partial demonstration that some biological models can accurately predict.

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Titel: Modeling Biological Systems | Principles and...
Verlag: Humana
Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
Einband: Taschenbuch
Zustand: Neu