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Ruby programming for medicine and biology /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berman, Jules J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, [2008]
Series:Jones and Bartlett series in biomedical informatics.
Subjects:
Medicine > Data processing.
Biology > Data processing.
Ruby (Computer program language)
Medical Informatics.
Programming Languages.
Computational Biology.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Overview of the Ruby language (level 1)
  • Survey of Ruby classes and the Ruby standard library (level 1)
  • Object orientation in Ruby (level 2)
  • Ruby extensions and standard libraries (level 2)
  • Biomedical data files used in later chapters (level 1)
  • Using Ruby strings, hashes, arrays, files, and directories (level 1)
  • Pattern searching with regular expressions (level 1)
  • File/dataset transformations (level 1)
  • Indexing text (level 1)
  • Searching and mining data (level 1)
  • Scrubbing confidential medical data (level 1)
  • Autocoding biomedical data using nomenclatures (level 3)
  • Some mathematical and statistical methods (level 2)
  • Cryptography and de-identification (level 2)
  • Common gateway interface (level 4)
  • Enter Ruby on Rails (level 4)
  • The bioinformatics library, Bio, and Ruby (level 3)
  • Ruby and resource description framework (level 3)
  • Ruby and biological classifications (level 3)
  • Book summary (level 3).