Published November, 2009
By Ashwin Srinivasan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Donald Michie was many things; a computing pioneer in machine intelligence, a cryptographer who made key breakthroughs at Bletchley Park, and a geneticist. Tragically, two years ago he died in a car crash. Here, Ashwin Srinivasan presents an engaging collection of lively essays from Michie's writings, on thinking computers, mice, and much more.

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Published November, 2009
By Robert Grutzmann and Christian Pilarsky
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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This is a fundamental yet comprehensive guidebook for researchers in the field of cancer gene profiling, as well as for those individuals in the area of biomedical/translational research. It examines the world of cancer gene profiling in light of new advances.

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Published November, 2009
By Darren R. Flower, Matthew Davies, Shoba Ranganathan and Darren D.R. Flower
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Immunomics Reviews:
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This fourth volume of a series is dedicated to advances in immunomics. The focus is on systemic and integrative approaches in basic and clinical immunology, immunoinformatics, and immunologically relevant instrumentation and high-throughput screening methods.

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Published November, 2009
By Piri Welcsh
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Cancer Genetics
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This volume will explore the latest findings in research into the genetics of breast and reproductive cancers, covering the epidemiological aspects of these cancers, their etiology, the effect of environment on genes and cancer etiology, and how research in this area can lead to development of preventative measures and treatments.

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Published November, 2009
By Livio Luzi
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
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Published October, 2009
By Adriano Tagliabracci
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
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In quest'opera sono riportate le conoscenze piu aggiornate sulle indagini del DNA che sono comunemente utilizzate per l'identificazione di autori di reati violenti nelle indagini criminali, per l'attribuzione dell'identita a resti umani ed a vittime di disastri di massa, per la ricostruzione di rapporti parentali nelle indagini di paternita.

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Published October, 2009
By Jonathan Kimmelman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This book examines the ethical and policy dimensions of testing interventions in human beings for the first time. It discusses numerous distinctive ethical challenges encountered in attempting to translate preclinical findings into clinical applications. It is relevant to ethicists, legal practitioners, policy makers, clinical researchers and geneticists.

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Published October, 2009
By Andreas Scherer and A Scherer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
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Batch effects and experimental shift are major sources for noise in a microarray dataset. Their effect on gene expression profiling has been largely ignored until now. This book provides a valuable insight into the nature of batch effects, providing guidance on possible ways of dealing with it and illustrating ways of keeping it to a minimum.

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Published October, 2009
By Blake C. Meyers and Pamela J. Green
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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MicroRNAs constitute a particularly important class of small RNAs given their abundance, broad phylogenetic conservation and strong regulatory effects, with plant miRNAs uniquely divulging their ancient evolutionary origins and their strong post-transcriptional regulatory effects.

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Published October, 2009
By Anton A. Komar
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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Chapters address the impact of SNPs on phenotype, examine SNP databases, look at methods that have been applied for SNP bioinformatics discovery and analysis, and discuss advanced experimental approaches used for SNP detection.

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