This
book is designed specifically as a guide for Computer Scientists needing an
introduction to Cell Biology. The text explores three different facets of
biology: biological systems, experimental methods, and language and
nomenclature. The author discusses what biologists are trying to determine from their experiments, how various experimental procedures are used and how they
relate to accepted concepts in computer science, and the vocabulary necessary
to read and understand current literature in biology. The book is an invaluable
reference tool and an excellent starting point for a more comprehensive
examination of cell biology.
There are book focuses
on three parts. One part of biology is information about biological systems. This
is the focus of most introductory biological textbooks and overviews, and is
the essence of what biologists actually study—what biologists are trying to
determine from their experiments. However, it is not always what biologists
spend most of their time talking about. If you pick up a typical biology paper,
the conclusions are typically
quite compact: often all the new information about biological systems in a
paper appears in the title, and almost always it can be squeezed into the
abstract. The bulk of the paper is about experimental methods and
how they were used—this, and its consider to be the second part of “biology.”
The third part of “biology” is the language
and nomenclature used, which is
rich, detailed, and highly impenetrable to mere laymen. To read and understand
current literature in biology, it is necessary to have some background each of
these three parts: core biology, experimental procedures, and the vocabulary.
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