MATLAB in bioscience and biotechnology / Leonid Burstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burstein, Leonid.

Series:

Biohealthcare Publishing series on pharma, biotech and biosciences. Science, technology and business ; v. 8.

Biohealthcare Publishing series on pharma, biotech and biosciences: science, technology and business ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

MATLAB.

Numerical analysis--Computer programs.

Numerical analysis.

Life sciences--Data processing.

Life sciences.

Biotechnology--Data processing.

Biotechnology.

Physical Description:

xviii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Biohealthcare Publishing, 2011.

Summary:

Burstein (biotechnology and software engineering, Israel Institute of Technology) introduces the proprietary mathematical software package MATLAB to graduate and undergraduate students in the biological sciences and technology, concentrating on the fundamentals and applications in those fields. He covers basics; graphics; script, function files and some useful functions; ordinary and partial differential equation solvers; and bioinformatics tools for sequence analysis. Distributed in North America by BookMasters. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 Matlab® basics 3

2.1 Starting with Matlab® 3

2.2 Vectors, matrices and arrays 15

2.3 Flow control 33

2.4 Questions for self-checking and exercises 44

2.5 Answers to selected exercises 48

3 Matlab® graphics 49

3.1 Generation of XY plots 49

3.2 Generation of XYZ plots 62

3.3 Specialized 2D and 3D plots 73

3.4 Application examples 79

3.5 Questions for self-checking and exercises 88

3.6 Answers to selected exercises 93

4 Script, function files and some useful Matlab® functions 95

4.1 Script file 95

4.2 Functions and function files 100

4.3 Some useful Matlab® functions 104

4.4 Application examples 116

4.5 Questions for self-checking and exercises 127

4.6 Answers to selected exercises 129

5 Ordinary and partial differential equation solvers 133

5.1 Solving ordinary differential equations with ODE solvers 133

5.2 Solving partial differential equations with the PDE solver 151

5.3 Questions for self-checking and exercises 162

5.4 Answers to selected exercises 167

6 Bioinformatics tool for sequence analysis 171

6.1 About toolboxes 171

6.2 The functions of the Bioinformatics toolbox™ 172

6.3 Public databases, data formats and commands for their management 173

6.4 Sequence analysis 182

6.5 Sequence analysis examples 197

6.6 Questions for self-checking and exercises 209

6.7 Answers to selected exercises 211.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1907568042

9781907568046

OCLC:

712636980