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Biomedia / Eugene Thacker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thacker, Eugene.
- Series:
- Electronic mediations ; v. 11.
- Electronic mediations ; v. 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Molecular biology--Philosophy.
- Molecular biology.
- Biotechnology--Philosophy.
- Biotechnology.
- Bioinformatics--Philosophy.
- Bioinformatics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- As biotechnology defines the new millennium, genetic codes and computer codes increasingly merge-life understood as data, flesh rendered programmable. Where this trend will take us, and what it might mean, is what concerns Eugene Thacker in this timely book, a penetrating look into the intersection of molecular biology and computer science in our day and its likely ramifications for the future.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; ONE: What Is Biomedia?; TWO: Bioinformatics: BLAST, BioPerl, and the Language of the Body; THREE: Wet Data: Biochips and BioMEMS; FOUR: Biocomputing: Is the Genome a Computer?; FIVE: Nanomedicine: Molecules That Matter; SIX: Systems Biology: Parallel CorpoRealities; Conclusion: The Bioethics of Metadesign; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9596-2
- OCLC:
- 476095476
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