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Book Synopsis Integrative Statistical Methods to Understand the Genetic Basis of Complex Trait by : Gleb Kichaev
Download or read book Integrative Statistical Methods to Understand the Genetic Basis of Complex Trait written by Gleb Kichaev and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Genome-wide Association study (GWAS) is one of the primary tools for understanding the genetic basis of complex traits. In this dissertation I introduce enhanced statistical methods to do integrative GWAS analysis with functional genomic data. First, I describe an integrative fine-mapping framework to prioritize causal variants at known GWAS risk loci. Next, I expand upon this framework to exploit genetic heterogeniety across human populations to improve statistical efficiency. I then consider a new inference strategy to reduce the computational burden of the methodology. Finally, I propose a new approach for GWAS discovery that leverages functional genomic data through polygenic modeling.
Book Synopsis Using Large-scale Genomics Data to Understand the Genetic Basis of Complex Traits by : Ruowang Li
Download or read book Using Large-scale Genomics Data to Understand the Genetic Basis of Complex Traits written by Ruowang Li and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the arrival of big data in genetics in the past decade, the field has experienced drastic changes. One game-changing breakthrough in genetics was the invention of genotyping and sequencing technology that allows researchers to examining single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across the entire genome. The other major breakthrough was the identification of haplotypes of common alleles in major human populations, which permitted the design of genotyping assays that effectively cover entire human genomes at a resolution appropriate for genetic mapping. Together, these technology breakthroughs have permitted researchers to carry out Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) on a wide range of traits including, for example, height and disease status. With GWAS, causal SNPs have been identified for some Mendelian traits, but for more complex genetic traits, the genetic heritability explained by the associated SNPs are low. In addition, high-throughput technologies to generate other types of -omics data such as gene expression, DNA methylation, and protein levels data have also emerged recently. How to best utilize the SNP data and other multi-omics data to understand genetic traits is one of the most important questions in the field today. With the increasing prevalence of multi-omics data, new types of analysis schemes and tools are needed to handle the additional complexity of the data. In particular, two areas of method development are in great need. First, statistical methods employed by GWAS do not consider the potential interacting relationships among genetic loci. Thus, methods that can explore the joint effect between multiple genetic loci or genetic factors could unveil new associations. Second, different types of omics data may give distinctive representations of the overall biological system. By combining multi-omics data, we could potentially aggregate non-overlapping information from each individual data types. Thus, the focus of this dissertation is on developing and improving computational methods that can jointly model multiple types of genomics data. First, an evaluation of an existing method, grammatical evolution neural network, was conducted to identify the optimal algorithm settings for the detection of genetic associations. It was found that under certain algorithm settings, the neural networks have been restricted to one-layer simple network. Using a parameter sweep approach, the analysis identified optimal settings that allow for building more flexible network structures. Then, the algorithm was applied to integrate multi-omics data to model drug-induced cytotoxicity for a number of cancer drugs. By combining different types of omics data including SNPs, gene expression and methylation levels, we were able to model a higher portion of the observed variability than any individual data type alone. However, one drawback of the existing neural network approach is the limited interpretability. To this end, a new algorithm based on Bayesian Networks was created. One novelty of the approach is the ability to independently fit a distinct Bayesian Network for each categories of a phenotype. This allows for identifying category specific interactions as well as common interactions across different categories. Analysis using simulated SNP data has shown that the Bayesian Network approach outperformed the Neural Network approach in many settings, particularly in situation where the data contains multiple interacting loci. When applied to a type 2 diabetes dataset, the algorithm was able to identify distinctive interaction patterns between cases and controls. Ultimately, the goal of this dissertation has been to fully take advantage of the newly available data to understand the genetic basis of complex traits.
Book Synopsis Computational Methods to Analyze Large-scale Genetic Studies of Complex Human Traits by : Huwenbo Shi
Download or read book Computational Methods to Analyze Large-scale Genetic Studies of Complex Human Traits written by Huwenbo Shi and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have produced a rich resource of genetic data over the past decade, urging the need to develop computational and statistical methods that analyze these data. This dissertation presents four statistical methods that model the correlation structure between genetic variants and its effect on GWAS summary association statistics to help understand the genetic basis of complex human traits and diseases. The first method employs the multivariate Bernoulli distribution to model haplotype data, allowing for higher-order interactions among genetic variants, and shows better accuracy in predicting DNase I hypersensitivity status. The second method partitions heritability into small regions on the genome using GWAS summary statistics data, while accounting for complex correlation structures among genetic variants, and uncovers the genetic architectures of complex human traits and diseases. Extending the second method into pairs of traits, the third method partitions genetic correlation into small genomic regions using GWAS summary statistics data, and provides insights into the shared genetic basis between pairs of traits. Finally, the fourth method dissects population-specific and shared causal genetic variants of complex traits in two continental populations, using GWAS summary statistics data obtained from samples of different ethnicities, and reveals differences in genetic architectures of two continental populations.
Book Synopsis Statistical Methods to Understand the Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits by : Farhad Hormozdiari
Download or read book Statistical Methods to Understand the Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits written by Farhad Hormozdiari and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have successfully identified thousands of risk loci for complex traits. Identifying these variants requires annotating all possible variations between any two individuals, followed by detecting the variants that affect the disease status or traits. High-throughput sequencing (HTS) advancements have made it possible to sequence cohort of individuals in an efficient manner both in term of cost and time. However, HTS technologies have raised many computational challenges. I first propose an efficient method to recover dense genotype data by leveraging low sequencing and imputation techniques. Then, I introduce a novel statistical method (CNVeM) to identify Copy-number variations (CNVs) loci using HTS data. CNVeM was the first method that incorporates multi-mapped reads, which are discarded by all existing methods. Unfortunately, among all GWAS variants only a handful of them have been successfully validated to be biologically causal variants. Identifying causal variants can aid us to understand the biological mechanism of traits or diseases. However, detecting the causal variants is challenging due to linkage disequilibrium (LD) and the fact that some loci contain more than one causal variant. In my thesis, I will introduce CAVIAR (CAusal Variants Identification in Associated Regions) that is a new statistical method for fine mapping. The main advantage of CAVIAR is that we predict a set of variants for each locus that will contain all of the true causal variants with a high confidence level (e.g. 95%) even when the locus contains multiple causal variants. Next, I aim to understand the underlying mechanism of GWAS risk loci. A standard approach to uncover the mechanism of GWAS risk loci is to integrate results of GWAS and expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) studies; we attempt to identify whether or not a significant GWAS variant also influences expression at a nearby gene in a specific tissue. However, detecting the same variant being causal in both GWAS and eQTL is challenging due to complex LD structure. I will introduce eCAVIAR (eQTL and GWAS CAusal Variants Identification in Associated Regions), a statistical method to compute the probability that the same variant is responsible for both the GWAS and eQTL signal, while accounting for complex LD structure. We integrate Glucose and Insulin-related traits meta-analysis with GTEx to detect the target genes and the most relevant tissues. Interestingly, we observe that most loci do not colocalize between GWAS and eQTL. Lastly, I propose an approach called phenotype imputation that allows one to perform GWAS on a phenotype that is difficult to collect. In our approach, we leverage the correlation structure between multiple phenotypes to impute the uncollected phenotype. I demonstrate that we can analytically calculate the statistical power of association test using imputed phenotype, which can be helpful for study design purposes
Book Synopsis Systems Genetics by : Florian Markowetz
Download or read book Systems Genetics written by Florian Markowetz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas genetic studies have traditionally focused on explaining heritance of single traits and their phenotypes, recent technological advances have made it possible to comprehensively dissect the genetic architecture of complex traits and quantify how genes interact to shape phenotypes. This exciting new area has been termed systems genetics and is born out of a synthesis of multiple fields, integrating a range of approaches and exploiting our increased ability to obtain quantitative and detailed measurements on a broad spectrum of phenotypes. Gathering the contributions of leading scientists, both computational and experimental, this book shows how experimental perturbations can help us to understand the link between genotype and phenotype. A snapshot of current research activity and state-of-the-art approaches to systems genetics are provided, including work from model organisms such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Drosophila melanogaster, as well as from human studies.
Book Synopsis Methods for the Quantitative Characterization of the Genetic Basis of Human Complex Traits by : Kathryn Burch
Download or read book Methods for the Quantitative Characterization of the Genetic Basis of Human Complex Traits written by Kathryn Burch and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major finding from the last decade of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) is that variant-phenotype associations are significantly enriched in noncoding regulatory regions of the genome. This result suggests that GWAS associations localize variants that modulate phenotype via gene regulation as opposed to alterations in protein structure/function. However, for most complex traits, most aspects of genetic architecture-the number of causal variants/genes for a trait and the degree to which causal effect sizes are coupled with genomic features such as minor allele frequency (MAF) and linkage disequilibrium (LD)-remain actively debated. In this dissertation, I introduce three new methods to explore and quantitatively characterize complex-trait genetic architecture. First, I derive an unbiased estimator of genome-wide SNP-heritability under a very general random effects model that makes minimal assumptions on the underlying (unknown) genetic architecture of the trait. Second, I introduce a method for estimating the number of causal variants that are shared between two ancestral populations for a given trait, and I discuss the implications of the method and real-data results for improving polygenic risk prediction in ethnic minority populations. Third, I propose methods for partitioning the heritability of individual genes by MAF to identify disease-relevant genes, with the hypothesis that some disease-relevant genes may have relatively large heritability contributions from rare and low-frequency variants while still having low total gene-level heritability.
Book Synopsis Computational Genetic Approaches for Understanding the Genetic Basis of Complex Traits by : Eun Yong Kang
Download or read book Computational Genetic Approaches for Understanding the Genetic Basis of Complex Traits written by Eun Yong Kang and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent advances in genotyping and sequencing technology have enabled researchers to collect an enormous amount of high-dimensional genotype data. These large scale genomic data provide unprecedented opportunity for researchers to study and analyze the genetic factors of human complex traits. One of the major challenges in analyzing these high-throughput genomic data is requirements for effective and efficient computational methodologies. In this thesis, I introduce several methodologies for analyzing these genomic data which facilitates our understanding of the genetic basis of complex human traits. First, I introduce a method for inferring biological networks from high-throughput data containing both genetic variation information and gene expression profiles from genetically distinct strains of an organism. For this problem, I use causal inference techniques to infer the presence or absence of causal relationships between yeast gene expressions in the framework of graphical causal models. In particular, I utilize prior biological knowledge that genetic variations affect gene expressions, but not vice versa, which allow us to direct the subsequent edges between two gene expression levels. The prediction of a presence of causal relationship as well as the absence of causal relationship between gene expressions can facilitate distinguishing between direct and indirect effects of variation on gene expression levels. I demonstrate the utility of our approach by applying it to data set containing 112 yeast strains and the proposed method identifies the known "regulatory hotspot" in yeast. Second, I introduce efficient pairwise identity by descent (IBD) association mapping method, which utilizes importance sampling to improve efficiency and enables approximation of extremely small p-values. Two individuals are IBD at a locus if they have identical alleles inherited from a common ancestor. One popular approach to find the association between IBD status and disease phenotype is the pairwise method where one compares the IBD rate of case/case pairs to the background IBD rate to detect excessive IBD sharing between cases. One challenge of the pairwise method is computational efficiency. In the pairwise method, one uses permutation to approximate p-values because it is difficult to analytically obtain the asymptotic distribution of the statistic. Since the p-value threshold for genome-wide association studies (GWAS) is necessarily low due to multiple testing, one must perform a large number of permutations which can be computationally demanding. I present Fast-Pairwise to overcome the computational challenges of the traditional pairwise method by utilizing importance sampling to improve efficiency and enable approximation of extremely small p-values. Using the WTCCC type 1 diabetes data, I show that Fast-Pairwise can successfully pinpoint a gene known to be associated to the disease within the MHC region. Finally, I introduce a novel meta analytic approach to identify gene-by-environment interactions by aggregating the multiple studies with varying environmental conditions. Identifying environmentally specific genetic effects is a key challenge in understanding the structure of complex traits. Model organisms play a crucial role in the identification of such gene-by-environment interactions, as a result of the unique ability to observe genetically similar individuals across multiple distinct environments. Many model organism studies examine the same traits but, under varying environmental conditions. These studies when examined in aggregate provide an opportunity to identify genomic loci exhibiting environmentally-dependent effects. In this project, I jointly analyze multiple studies with varying environmental conditions using a meta-analytic approach based on a random effects model to identify loci involved in gene-by-environment interactions. Our approach is motivated by the observation that methods for discovering gene-by-environment interactions are closely related to random effects models for meta-analysis. We show that interactions can be interpreted as heterogeneity and can be detected without utilizing the traditional uni- or multi-variate approaches for discovery of gene-by-environment interactions. I apply our new method to combine 17 mouse studies containing in aggregate 4,965 distinct animals. We identify 26 significant loci involved in High-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, many of which show significant evidence of involvement in gene-by-environment interactions.
Book Synopsis Dissecting Genetic Basis of Complex Traits by Haplotype-based Association Studies and Integrated Information from Multiple Data Sources by : Yixuan Chen
Download or read book Dissecting Genetic Basis of Complex Traits by Haplotype-based Association Studies and Integrated Information from Multiple Data Sources written by Yixuan Chen and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Characterization of genetic variation and dissection of genetic architectures of complex diseases is critical in understanding their intrinsic mechanisms. Haplotype methods have shown improved power and more consistent results comparing to single-locus based approaches. We propose a new haplotype-based association method for family data. Our approach (termed F_HapMiner) first infers diplotype pairs of each individual in each pedigree assuming no recombination within a family. A phenotype score is then defined for each founder haplotype. Finally, F_HapMiner applies a clustering algorithm on founder haplotypes based on their similarities and identifies haplotype clusters that show significant associations with diseases/traits. Comparisons with single-locus and haplotype-based Transmission Disequilibrium Test (TDT) methods demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms the TDT-based approaches regardless of disease models, local Linkage Disequilibrium (LD) structures or allele/haplotype frequencies. Traditional linkage analysis and association study may result in hundreds of candidate genes. We propose an expandable framework for gene prioritization that can integrate multiple heterogenous data sources by taking advantage of a unified graphic representation. Gene-gene relationships and gene-disease relationships are then defined based on the overall topology of each network using the diffusion kernel measure. These relationship measures are in turn normalized to derive an overall measure across all networks, which is utilized to rank all candidate genes. Based on the informativeness of available data sources with respect to each specific disease, we also propose an adaptive threshold score to select a small subset of candidate genes for further validation studies. We performed large scale cross-validation analysis using three data sources based on protein interactions, gene expressions and pathway information. Results have shown that our approach consistently outperforms other two state-of-the-art programs. A web tool has been implemented to assist scientists in their genetic studies. Researchers commonly rely on simulated data to evaluate their approaches for detecting high-order interactions in disease gene mapping. A publicly available simulation program is of great interests. We have developed a computer program gs to quickly generate a large number of samples based on real data. Two approaches have been implemented to generate dense SNP haplotype/genotype data that share similar local LD patterns as those in human populations. The first approach takes haplotype pairs from samples as inputs, and the second approach takes patterns of haplotype block structures as inputs. The improved version of gs provides great functionalities and flexibilities to simulate various interaction models. Data generated can serve as a common ground to compare different approaches in detecting interactions.
Book Synopsis Statistical Genetics of Quantitative Traits by : Rongling Wu
Download or read book Statistical Genetics of Quantitative Traits written by Rongling Wu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the basic concepts and methods that are useful in the statistical analysis and modeling of the DNA-based marker and phenotypic data that arise in agriculture, forestry, experimental biology, and other fields. It concentrates on the linkage analysis of markers, map construction and quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping, and assumes a background in regression analysis and maximum likelihood approaches. The strength of this book lies in the construction of general models and algorithms for linkage analysis, as well as in QTL mapping in any kind of crossed pedigrees initiated with inbred lines of crops.
Book Synopsis Computational Approaches to Understanding the Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits by : Brielin C. Brown
Download or read book Computational Approaches to Understanding the Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits written by Brielin C. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in DNA sequencing technology have resulted in the ability to generate genetic data at costs unimaginable even ten years ago. This has resulted in a tremendous amount of data, with large studies providing genotypes of hundreds of thousands of individuals at millions of genetic locations. This rapid increase in the scale of genetic data necessitates the development of computational methods that can analyze this data rapidly without sacrificing statistical rigor. The low cost of DNA sequencing also provides an opportunity to tailor medical care to an individuals unique genetic signature. However, this type of precision medicine is limited by our understanding of how genetic variation shapes disease. Our understanding of so- called complex diseases is particularly poor, and most identified variants explain only a tiny fraction of the variance in the disease that is expected to be due to genetics. This is further complicated by the fact that most studies of complex disease go directly from genotype to phenotype, ignoring the complex biological processes that take place in between. Herein, we discuss several advances in the field of complex trait genetics. We begin with a review of computational and statistical methods for working with genotype and phenotype data, as well as a discussion of methods for analyzing RNA-seq data in effort to bridge the gap between genotype and phenotype. We then describe our methods for 1) improving power to detect common variants associated with disease, 2) determining the extent to which different world populations share similar disease genetics and 3) identifying genes which show differential expression between the two haplotypes of a single individual. Finally, we discuss opportunities for future investigation in this field.
Book Synopsis Deciphering the Genetic Basis for Complex Trait Variation by : Scott A. Funkhouser
Download or read book Deciphering the Genetic Basis for Complex Trait Variation written by Scott A. Funkhouser and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within any population, complex trait variation can be attributed to an impressive number of genetic factors. Identification of such factors has been made possible, in part, by large biomedical datasets comprised of genotypes and phenotypes for hundreds of thousands of individuals. Furthermore, understanding the biological mechanisms through which genetic variation creates complex trait variation has been facilitated by high-throughput sequencing technology, used to quantify molecular, intermediate phenotypes. Despite such datasets being widely available, we lack understanding of the full spectrum of genetic effects, including gene-by-sex (GxS) interactions. We also have yet to uncover various molecular phenotypes that may "link" genetic variation to complex trait variation. To address these gaps in knowledge, the following chapters will 1) develop and utilize statistical methodology for mapping GxS interactions among human traits, and 2) utilize a pig model to characterize RNA editing-a relatively understudied form of transcriptional regulation- and evaluate its potential to link genetic variation with complex trait variation.Growing evidence from genome-wide parameter estimates suggest males and females from human populations possess differing genetic architectures. Despite this, mapping GxS interactions remains challenging, suggesting that the magnitude of a typical GxS interaction is exceedingly small. We have developed a local Bayesian regression (LBR) approach to estimate sex-specific single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) marker effects after fully accounting for local linkage-disequilibrium (LD) patterns. This provided means to infer GxS interactions either at the SNP level, or by aggregating multiple sex-specific SNP effects to make inferences at the level of small, LD-based regions. In simulations, LBR provided greater power and resolution to detect GxS interactions than the traditional approach to genome-wide association (GWA), single-marker regression (SMR).When using LBR to analyze human traits from the UK Biobank (N ∼ 250,000) including height, BMI, bone-mineral density, and waist-to-hip ratio, we find evidence of novel GxS interactions where sex-specific effects explain a very small proportion of phenotypic variance (R2
Book Synopsis Statistical Methods for Integrating Quantitative Trait Loci Annotation in Post-gwas Analysis by : Kunling Huang
Download or read book Statistical Methods for Integrating Quantitative Trait Loci Annotation in Post-gwas Analysis written by Kunling Huang and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent advances in large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have highlighted the involvement of common genetic variants in complex traits and diseases. Data integration efforts linking GWAS signals with functional annotation data have provided insights into the genetic architecture of numerous human complex traits. For example, expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) studies in relevant biological tissues provide gene candidates for complex diseases, which can be tested as therapeutic targets. Integrating multi-omics annotation data with GWAS association data brings in orthogonal information and improves the understanding of complex trait etiology. In this dissertation, we present two approaches to link genomic annotations to genotype-phenotype associations identified through GWAS. The two approaches both associate complex traits with genetically imputed molecular traits (i.e., gene expression levels and metabolite levels), and identify regulatory and metabolic machineries underlying a variety of complex traits.We start with integrating eQTLs with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in parent-offspring trios by quantifying the transmission disequilibrium of genetically regulated gene expression from parents to offspring and performing transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS). We identify transcription factor POU3F2 in our analysis. POU3F2 mainly expresses in developmental brain and the gene targets regulated by POU3F2 are enriched for known risk genes for ASD and loss-of-function de novo mutations in ASD probands. TWAS suggests that ASD genes affected by very rare mutations may be regulated by an unlinked transcription factor affected by common genetic variations. Next, we extend our TWAS framework to study the regulatory roles of metabolite quantitative trait loci (mQTL). We introduce metabolome-wide association study (MWAS), which integrates metabolomics data with genetics data. We benchmarked and optimized genetic prediction models for a total of 703 metabolites from cerebrospinal fluid, plasma, and urine, and performed a biobank-wide association scan between imputed metabolite levels and 530 complex traits in UK Biobank. We found a total of 1,311 significant metabolite-trait associations after performing Bonferroni correction across all tested associations. The significant MWAS results explain the difference in human body fat mass and body fat-free mass. In summary, we perform joint analysis on eQTL/mQTL data and complex trait GWAS to identify genes or metabolites relevant to complex traits. Our approaches improve our understanding of the phenotypic outcomes of non-coding genetic variations and may contribute to novel biomarker discovery, clinical diagnosis improvement, and therapeutics development.
Book Synopsis Medical Epigenetics by : Trygve Tollefsbol
Download or read book Medical Epigenetics written by Trygve Tollefsbol and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical Epigenetics provides a comprehensive analysis of the importance of epigenetics to health management. The purpose of this book is to fill a current need for a comprehensive volume on the medical aspects of epigenetics with a focus on human systems, epigenetic diseases that affect these systems and modes of treating epigenetic-based disorders and diseases. The intent of this book is to provide a stand-alone comprehensive volume that will cover all human systems relevant to epigenetic maladies and all major aspects of medical epigenetics. The overall goal is to provide the leading book on medical epigenetics that will be useful not only to physicians, nurses, medical students and many others directly involved with health care, but also investigators in life sciences, biotech companies, graduate students and many others who are interested in more applied aspects of epigenetics. Research in the area of translational epigenetics is a cornerstone of this volume. Critical reviews dedicated to the burgeoning role of epigenetics in medical practice Coverage of emerging topics including twin epigenetics as well as epigenetics of gastrointestinal disease, muscle disorders, endocrine disorders, ocular medicine, pediatric diseases, sports medicine, noncoding RNA therapeutics, pain management and regenerative medicine Encompasses a disease-oriented perspective of medical epigenetics as well as diagnostic and prognostic epigenetic approaches to applied medicine
Book Synopsis Approaches in Integrative Bioinformatics by : Ming Chen
Download or read book Approaches in Integrative Bioinformatics written by Ming Chen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-01-18 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaches in Integrative Bioinformatics provides a basic introduction to biological information systems, as well as guidance for the computational analysis of systems biology. This book also covers a range of issues and methods that reveal the multitude of omics data integration types and the relevance that integrative bioinformatics has today. Topics include biological data integration and manipulation, modeling and simulation of metabolic networks, transcriptomics and phenomics, and virtual cell approaches, as well as a number of applications of network biology. It helps to illustrate the value of integrative bioinformatics approaches to the life sciences. This book is intended for researchers and graduate students in the field of Bioinformatics. Professor Ming Chen is the Director of the Bioinformatics Laboratory at the College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Professor Ralf Hofestädt is the Chair of the Department of Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics, Bielefeld University, Germany.
Book Synopsis Visualizing Categorical Data by : Michael Friendly
Download or read book Visualizing Categorical Data written by Michael Friendly and published by SAS Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphical methods for quantitative data are well developed and widely used. However, until now with this comprehensive treatment, few graphical methods existed for categorical data. In this innovative book, the author presents many aspects of the relationships among variables, the adequacy of a fitted model, and possibly unusual features of the data that can best be seen and appreciated in an informative graphical display.
Book Synopsis Mechanisms of Adaptation by : J.R. Spkatch
Download or read book Mechanisms of Adaptation written by J.R. Spkatch and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bacteria: Volume VII: Mechanisms of Adaptation explores the mechanisms of bacterial adaptations and covers topics ranging from bacterial spores, cysts, and stalks to nitrogen fixation, bacterial chemotaxis, bacteriophage growth, and the structure and biosynthesis of bacterial cell walls. The roles of appendages and surface layers in adaptation of bacteria to their environment are also considered, along with cell division in Escherichia coli. This volume is comprised of nine chapters and begins with a discussion on the structure, properties, formation, and regulation of spores, cysts, and stalks in actinomycetes, blue-green bacteria, myxobacteria, Bacillus, Azotobacter, and Caulobacter. The reader is then introduced to the biochemistry, regulation, genetics, and evolution of nitrogen fixing in organisms; the receptors involved in bacterial chemotaxis and the nature of the sensing mechanism; the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria; and bacterial functions involved in nutrient detection and acquisition. The roles played by organelles and surface layers in the adaptation of bacteria to their environment are also examined. The final chapter deals with the regulation of, and coordination between, the multitude of events involved in cell division in Escherichia coli. This monograph will be a useful resource for microbiologists, bacteriologists, biochemists, and biologists.
Book Synopsis Phenotypic Integration by : Massimo Pigliucci
Download or read book Phenotypic Integration written by Massimo Pigliucci and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interface of evolution and development has attracted the attention of evolutionary and developmental biologists, geneticists, and organismal biologists. Pigliucci (ecology, evolutionary biology, University of Tennessee) and Preston (botany, Standford University) bring together work by experts in the field of phenotype integration, shedding ligh.
