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Taxonomic guide to infectious diseases : understanding the biologic classes of pathogenic organisms
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ISBN: 1280775793 9786613686183 0124159133 0124158951 9780124159136 9781437735284 1437735282 9781437735260 1437735266 9780124158955 Year: 2012 Publisher: London : Academic Press,

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In the past few decades, there have been great advances in the phylogenetic classification of infectious diseases of man. Taxonomic Guide to Infectious Diseases organizes this information into a standard biological classification and provides a short, clinically-oriented description of every genus (class) of infectious organism. It covers an overview of modern taxonomy, including a description of the kingdoms of life and the evolutionary principles underlying the class hierarchy, and each following chapter will describe one phylum and the genera that contain infectious species. Ta


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Data simplification
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ISBN: 0128038543 0128037814 9780128038543 9780128037812 9780128037812 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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Data Simplification: Taming Information With Open Source Tools addresses the simple fact that modern data is too big and complex to analyze in its native form. Data simplification is the process whereby large and complex data is rendered usable. Complex data must be simplified before it can be analyzed, but the process of data simplification is anything but simple, requiring a specialized set of skills and tools. This book provides data scientists from every scientific discipline with the methods and tools to simplify their data for immediate analysis or long-term storage in a form that can be readily repurposed or integrated with other data. Drawing upon years of practical experience, and using numerous examples and use cases, Jules Berman discusses the principles, methods, and tools that must be studied and mastered to achieve data simplification, open source tools, free utilities and snippets of code that can be reused and repurposed to simplify data, natural language processing and machine translation as a tool to simplify data, and data summarization and visualization and the role they play in making data useful for the end user. Discusses data simplification principles, methods, and tools that must be studied and mastered Provides open source tools, free utilities, and snippets of code that can be reused and repurposed to simplify data Explains how to best utilize indexes to search, retrieve, and analyze textual data Shows the data scientist how to apply ontologies, classifications, classes, properties, and instances to data using tried and true methods


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Rare diseases and orphan drugs : keys to understanding and treating the common diseases
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ISBN: 0124200095 0124199887 9780124200098 9780124199880 Year: 2014 Publisher: London, [England] : Academic Press,

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Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs shows that much of what we now know about common diseases has been achieved by studying rare diseases. It proposes that future advances in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of common diseases will come as a consequence of our accelerating progress in the field of rare diseases. Understanding the complex steps in the development of common diseases, such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, and metabolic diseases, has proven a difficult problem. Rare diseases, however, are often caused by aberrations of a single gene. In rare diseases, we may


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Repurposing legacy data : innovative case studies
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ISBN: 0128029153 0128028823 1336202637 9780128029152 9780128028827 Year: 2015 Publisher: Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier,

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Repurposing Legacy Data: Innovative Case Studies takes a look at how data scientists have re-purposed legacy data, whether their own, or legacy data that has been donated to the public domain. Most of the data stored worldwide is legacy data-data created some time in the past, for a particular purpose, and left in obsolete formats. As with keepsakes in an attic, we retain this information thinking it may have value in the future, though we have no current use for it. The case studies in this book, from such diverse fields as cosmology, quantum physics, high-energy physics, microbiology,


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Taxonomic guide to infectious diseases : understanding the biologic classes of pathogenic organisms
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ISBN: 012817577X 0128175761 9780128175774 9780128175767 Year: 2019 Publisher: London, England : Academic Press,

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Taxonomic Guide to Infectious Diseases, Second Edition, tackles the complexity of clinical microbiology by assigning every infectious organism to one of 40+ taxonomic classes, and providing a description of the defining traits that apply to all the organisms within each class. This edition is an updated, revised, and greatly expanded guide to the classes of organisms that infect humans. Taxonomic Guide to Infectious Diseases provides students and clinicians alike with a simplified way to understand the complex fields of clinical microbiology and parasitology.--


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Evolution's clinical guidebook : translating ancient genes into precision medicine
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ISBN: 012817126X 0128171278 9780128171271 9780128171264 Year: 2019 Publisher: London : Academic Press,

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"Evolution's Clinical Guidebook: Translating Ancient Genes into Precision Medicine demonstrates, through well-documented examples, how an understanding of the phylogenetic ancestry of humans allows us to make sense out of the flood of genetic data streaming from modern laboratories and how it can lead us to new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases. Topics cover evolution and human genome, meiosis and other recombinants events, embryology, speciation, phylogeny, rare and common diseases, and the evolution of aging. This book is a valuable source for bioinformaticians and those in the biomedical field who need knowledge, down to gene level, to fully comprehend currently available data." --Amazon.ca.


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Logic and critical thinking in the biomedical sciences.
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ISBN: 012821371X 0128213647 9780128213711 9780128213643 Year: 2020 Publisher: London, England : Academic Press,

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Biology --- Philosophy. --- Vitalism


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Logic and critical thinking in the biomedical sciences.
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ISBN: 0128213620 0128213698 9780128213629 9780128213698 Year: 2020 Publisher: London, United Kingdom Academic Press

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Biology --- Philosophy. --- Vitalism


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Precision medicine and the reinvention of human disease
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ISBN: 9780128143940 0128143940 0128143932 9780128143933 Year: 2018 Publisher: London, England : Academic Press,

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Despite what you may have read in the popular press and in social media, Precision Medicine is not devoted to finding unique treatments for individuals, based on analyzing their DNA. To the contrary, the goal of Precision Medicine is to find general treatments that are highly effective for large numbers of individuals who fall into precisely diagnosed groups. We now know that every disease develops over time, through a sequence of defined biological steps, and that these steps may differ among individuals, based on genetic and environmental conditions. We are currently developing rational therapies and preventive measures, based on our precise understanding of the steps leading to the clinical expression of diseases. Precision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human Disease explains the scientific breakthroughs that have changed the way that we understand diseases, and reveals how medical scientists are using this new knowledge to launch a medical revolution.--


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Principles and practice of big data : preparing, sharing, and analyzing complex information
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ISBN: 9780128156100 0128156104 0128156090 9780128156094 Year: 2018 Publisher: London, United Kingdom : Academic Press, imprint of Elsevier,

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Principles and Practice of Big Data: Preparing, Sharing, and Analyzing Complex Information, Second Edition updates and expands on the first edition, bringing a set of techniques and algorithms that are tailored to Big Data projects. The book stresses the point that most data analyses conducted on large, complex data sets can be achieved without the use of specialized suites of software (e.g., Hadoop), and without expensive hardware (e.g., supercomputers). The core of every algorithm described in the book can be implemented in a few lines of code using just about any popular programming language (Python snippets are provided). Through the use of new multiple examples, this edition demonstrates that if we understand our data, and if we know how to ask the right questions, we can learn a great deal from large and complex data collections. The book will assist students and professionals from all scientific backgrounds who are interested in stepping outside the traditional boundaries of their chosen academic disciplines. Presents new methodologies that are widely applicable to just about any project involving large and complex datasets Offers readers informative new case studies across a range scientific and engineering disciplines Provides insights into semantics, identification, de-identification, vulnerabilities and regulatory/legal issues Utilizes a combination of pseudocode and very short snippets of Python code to show readers how they may develop their own projects without downloading or learning new software

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