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Computational Cancer Biology

An Interaction Network Approach

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  • © 2012

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Authors:
  1. Mathukumalli Vidyasagar

    1. , Bioengineering Department, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, USA

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  • Gives the engineer and the mathematician a self-contained entry into the study of biological systems
  • Applications drawn from real cancer data – not simulations

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering (BRIEFSELECTRIC)

Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs in Control, Automation and Robotics (BRIEFSCONTROL)

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The Role of System Theory in Biology

    • Mathukumalli Vidyasagar
    Pages 1-12

  3. Analyzing Statistical Significance

    • Mathukumalli Vidyasagar
    Pages 13-29

  4. Inferring Gene Interaction Networks

    • Mathukumalli Vidyasagar
    Pages 31-68

  5. Some Research Directions

    • Mathukumalli Vidyasagar
    Pages 69-80
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This brief introduces people with a basic background in probability theory to various problems in cancer biology that are amenable to analysis using methods of probability theory and statistics.  The title mentions “cancer biology” and the specific illustrative applications reference cancer data but the methods themselves are more broadly applicable to all aspects of computational biology.
Aside from providing a self-contained introduction to basic biology and to cancer, the brief describes four specific problems in cancer biology that are amenable to the application of probability-based methods.  The application of these methods is illustrated by applying each of them to actual data from the biology literature.
After reading the brief, engineers and mathematicians should be able to collaborate fruitfully with their biologist colleagues on a wide variety of problems.

Authors and Affiliations

  • , Bioengineering Department, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, USA

    Mathukumalli Vidyasagar

About the author

Mathukumalli Vidyasagar was born in Guntur, India on September 29, 1947. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, in 1965, 1967 and 1969 respectively. Between 1969 and 1989, he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at various universities in the USA and Canada. His last overseas job was with the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, where he served between 1980 and 1989. In 1989 he returned to India as the Director of the newly created Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) in Bangalore, under the Ministry of Defence, Government of India. Between 1989 and 2000, he built up CAIR into a leading research laboratory with about 40 scientists and a total of about 85 persons, working in areas such as flight control, robotics, neural networks, and image processing. In 2000 he moved to the Indian private sector as an Executive Vice President of India's largest software company, Tata Consultancy Services. In the city of Hyderabad, he created the Advanced Technology Center, an industrial R&D laboratory of around 80 engineers, working in areas such as computational biology, quantitative finance, e-security, identity management, and open source software to support Indian languages. In 2009 he retired from TCS at the age of 62, and joined the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas, as a Cecil and Ida Green Chair in Systems Biology Science. In March 2010 he was named as the Founding Head of the newly created Bioengineering Department. His current research interests are in the application of stochastic processes and stochastic modeling to problems in computational biology, control systems and quantitative finance.

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