Infobiotics. Information in biotic systems
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Infobiotics. Information in biotic systems
zbMATH Open document ID: 1278.68017
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36223-1
author: Vincenzo Manca
published in: Emergence, Complexity and Computation
publication date: 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z
review text: Infobiotics is the reverse side of bioinformatics according to the author: ``In bioinformatics the biologists ask computer scientists to assist them in elaborating the data they obtain. Conversly, in infobiotics computer scientists and mathematicians provide biologists with explanations and theories which biologists need to verify by means of specific experiments.'' The book is divided into two parts, ``Topics in discrete biomathematics'' and ``Discrete mathematical backgrounds''. The themes in the first part cover discrete information and life, where sets, sequences, trees and graphs are introduced as fundamental organization of biological components, strings and genomes, where basic concepts about DNA molecules and genomes are presented, algorithms and biorythms, aiming at showing the the links between the concepts of algorithm and biorythm starting with metabolism, and finally life strategies, where some basic strategies of life are outlined looking at life as based on complex systems interacting with the environment. The second part of the book is an overview of a mixture of discrete mathematics, computing, probability, and statistics. Some topics are: numbers and measures, including set theory, induction and recurrence, series and growths, and discrete dynamical systems, language and grammars, with strings, regular expressions, patterns, Turing machine, and entropy, and finally combinations and chances, discussing factorials and binomial coefficients, distributions and discrete probability, allocations and partitions, Stirling, Bell, Catalan, and Bernoulli numbers, statistical tests, least squares, trees and graphs.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 68-02
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92B05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92D10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92-02
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05C90
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 05-01
zbMATH DE Number: 6148907
zbMATH Keywords: algorithms
zbMATH Keywords: bioinformatics
zbMATH Keywords: combinatorics
zbMATH Keywords: discrete biomathematics
zbMATH Keywords: genome
zbMATH Keywords: probability
zbMATH Keywords: set theory
zbMATH Keywords: strings
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full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36223-1
OpenAlex ID: W4254445705
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6148907