Ray Paton

Computing with Biological Metaphors

Mike Holcombe

Roy Cuthbertson

Computation in Cellular and Molecular Biological Systems is a selection of papers presented at the First International Workshop on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues (IPCAT 95). The book contains contributions from mathematicians, biochemists, cell biologists, physiologists and computer scientists. It is multidisciplinary in nature and deals with integrative aspects of information processing, cellular systems and dynamical methods. Contents:IntroductionInformation Processing and Signalling ProcessesInformation Processing and Cellular SystemsDynamical Models of Cellular Systems and Information Processing Readership: Mathematicians, biochemists, cell biologists, physiologists and computational scientists. keywords:Information Processing;Cells;Tissues;Computation;Cellular;Molecular Biological Systems;Physiology

Computation in Cellular and Molecular Biological Systems

Laura A. McNamara

This volume will be a collection of chapters from authors with wide experience in their research field. The purpose is to produce a coherent book that reflects the common theme of theory in medical thinking and multidisciplinary research practice. In this context "theory" relates to frameworks of concepts, facts, models etc that help to inform practitioners (clinicians, scientists and engineers) both within their own fields and as they seek to share dialogue with colleagues from other fields. The book will therefore be integrative across a broad spectrum of fields within medicine. To achieve this the chapters will be associated with others in a number of meaningful ways. Each chapter will share a number of points of contact that will include at least two of the following: *similar biomedical area (e.g., immunity, neuroscience, endocrinology, pathology, oncology, haematology, â€¦) *similar multidisciplinary theoretical contexts (e.g., modelling, analysis, description, visualization, complex systems, â€¦) *similar multidisciplinary medical issues and questions (e.g., clinical practice, decision making, informatics, â€¦) â€¢Uniquely explores role of interdisciplinary exchange in the development and expansion of medical theory â€¢Timely and insightful essays on the growth and development of medical theories from some of the world's top clinicians and medical researchers, including Werner Arber, Frank Vertosick, and David Weatherall â€¢Assembles diverse perspectives on medicine and physiology from biology, statistics, ethics, computer science, philosophy, history â€¢Uniquely illuminates the social and historical processes through which theoretical research translates into clinical practice â€¢Reveals the growing role of technology, especially computational modelling, in changing the nature of Western medicine

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Theory in Medicine

Irene Neilsen

The value of multi-disciplinary research and the exchange of ideas and methods across traditional discipline boundaries are well recognised. Indeed, it could be justifiably argued that many of the advances in science and engineering take place because the ideas, methods and the tools of thought from one discipline become re applied in others. Sadly, it is also the case that many subject areas develop specialised vocabularies and concepts and can consequently approach more general problems in fairly narrow, subject-specific ways. Consequently barriers develop between disciplines that prevent the free flow of ideas and the collaborations that on Visual Representations could often bring success. VRI'98, a workshop focused & Interpretations, was intended to break down such barriers. The workshop was held in the Foresight Conference Centre, which occupies part of the former Liverpool Royal Infirmary, a Grade 2 listed building, which has been recently restored. The building combines a majestic architecture with the latest in new conference facilities and technologies and thus provided a very suitable setting for a workshop aimed at bringing the Arts and the Sciences together. of the workshop was to promote inter-disciplinary awareness across The main aim a range of disciplines where visual representations and interpretations are exploited. Contributions to the workshop were therefore invited from researchers who are actively investigating visual representations and interpretations: - artists, architects, biologists, chemists, clinicians, cognitive scientists, computer scientists, educationalists, engineers, graphic designers, linguists, mathematicians, philosophers, physicists, psychologists and social scientists.

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