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\Come forth into the light of things Let nature be your teacher." (Wordsworth, 72]) 1 Biological mathematics: the tables turned The eld usually referred to as mathematical biology is a highly interdisciplinary area that lies at the intersection of mathematics and biology. Classical illustrations include the development of stochastic processes and statistical methods to solve problems in genetic...

it’s not long since the advent of pervasive computing by mark weiser and one of its main usages is in healthcare systems. as this technology has been introduced only recently in this field and because we are dealing with peoples’ lives and their data, providing a high level of privacy and security is of great importance. various studies have been performed in which a certain method has been use...

Systems biology is an important concept that connects molecular biology and genomics with computing science, mathematics and engineering. An endeavor is made in this paper to associate basic conceptual ideas of systems biology with clinical medicine. Complex cardiac diseases are clinical phenotypes generated by integration of genetic, molecular and environmental factors. Basic concepts of syste...

Srinivas Aluru School of Computational Science and Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Reverse engineering whole-genome networks from large-scale gene expression measurements and analyzing them to extract biologically valid hypotheses are important challenges in systems biology. While simpler models easily scale to large number of genes and gene expression datasets, more accurate models...

The process of information extraction and data integration in a global information system demands automatic techniques for quickly determining semantic similarity among concepts across different ontologies. This paper presents a graph based approach for computing, on-the-fly, semantic similarities among ontologies of a specific domain. The approach consists of integrating mobile agents and onto...

The pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of teachers influences students’ achievement the learning outcomes. This study examined teachers’ perceived enactment PCK in biology. quantitative survey design was adopted by using a Likert-scale questionnaire consisting six components PCK, namely curricular saliency, prior knowledge, what makes subject easy or difficult, representations, conceptual teac...

Large-scale biomolecular simulations form an increasingly important component of a number of areas of biological investigation, including bionanoscience, structural bioinformatics and systems biology. Future trends in biomolecular simulations will emphasise greater depth (more detailed physico-chemical models), greater breadth (comparative simulations across families of biomolecules), and great...