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    Matlab® in Bioscience and Biotechnology
    Matlab® in Bioscience and Biotechnology
    Matlab® in Bioscience and Biotechnology
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    Matlab® in Bioscience and Biotechnology

    By Leonid Burstein

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    MATLAB® in bioscience and biotechnology presents an introductory Matlab course oriented towards various collaborative areas of biotechnology and bioscience. It concentrates on Matlab fundamentals and gives examples of its application to a wide range of current bioengineering problems in computational biology, molecular biology, bio-kinetics, biomedicine, bioinformatics, and biotechnology. In the last decade Matlab has been presented to students as the first computer program they learn. Consequently, many non-programmer students, engineers and scientists have come to regard it as user-friendly and highly convenient in solving their specific problems. Numerous books are available on programming in Matlab for engineers in general, irrespective of their specialization, or for those specializing in some specific area, but none have been designed especially for such a wide, interdisciplinary, and topical area as bioengineering. Thus, in this book, Matlab is presented with examples and applications to various school-level and advanced bioengineering problems - from growing populations of microorganisms and population dynamics, reaction kinetics and reagent concentrations, predator-prey models, mass-transfer and flow problems, to sequence analysis and sequence statistics.
    • This is the first book intended as a manual introducing biologists and other biotechnology engineers to work with Matlab
    • It is suitable for beginners and inexperienced users; however, applications of Matlab to advanced problems such as the Monte Carlo method, curve fitting, and reliable machine diagnostics make the book relevant to university teachers as well
    • The book is different in that it assumes a modest mathematical background for the reader and introduces the mathematical or technical concepts with a somewhat traditional approach; Matlab is then used as a tool for subsequent computer solution
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateJun 5, 2011
    ISBN9781908818034
    Matlab® in Bioscience and Biotechnology
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    Leonid Burstein

    Dr Leonid Burstein is a staff member of Kinneret Academic College (Quality Assurance Department), before that he taught at the Technion -IIT, at ORT Braude College, and at several other academic institution in Western and Lower Galilee, in Israel. His scientific work has been reported in more than 50 publications in leading scientific journals. He is author and contributor of published textbooks, monographs, and an Editorial Board member and reviewer for several international scientific journals.

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      Matlab® in Bioscience and Biotechnology - Leonid Burstein

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      Introduction

      Everything that can be counted – should be.

      Anonymous

      Biological engineering is defined as application of engineering principles to the widest spectrum of living systems – from molecular biology, biochemistry and microbiology, to bio-medicine, genetics and bioinformatics. And as in general engineering, computers and the ability to use them are vitally important. This is true also for other professionals of any bio-industry. Thus, bio-specialists and scientists working in these areas need to have the computational resources to be able to solve various problems. A widespread and powerful tool for such purposes is MATLAB® – the software for technical computing. It is designed to solve both general and specific problems; of these, the latter are treated with so-called toolboxes, which currently include means specialized for bio-problems. An obstacle to the effective understanding and implementation of MATLAB® in practice is the inadequate level of math reached by students and specialists in areas of bioscience, combined with a lack of textbooks tailored to such audiences. This book is intended as a remedy. It is organized as

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