In Silico Dreams : How Artificial Intelligence and Biotechnology Will Create the Medicines of the Future.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hilbush, Brian S.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2021.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • About the Author
  • About the Technical Editor
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents at a Glance
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • What Does This Book Cover?
  • Reader Support for This Book
  • Chapter 1 The Information Revolution's Impact on Biology
  • A Biological Data Avalanche at Warp Speed
  • Tracking SARS-CoV-2 with Genomic Epidemiology
  • Biology's Paradigm Shift Enables In Silico Biology
  • Transitions and Computation in Cancer Research
  • Structural Biology and Genomics
  • Sequencing the Human Genome
  • Computational Biology in the Twenty-First Century
  • Applications of Human Genome Sequencing
  • Analyzing Human Genome Sequence Information
  • Omics Technologies and Systems Biology
  • Notes
  • Chapter 2 A New Era of Artificial Intelligence
  • AI Steps Out of the Bronx
  • From Neurons and Cats Brains to Neural Networks
  • Machine Learning and the Deep Learning Breakthrough
  • Deep Learning Arrives for AI
  • Deep Neural Network Architectures
  • Deep Learning's Beachhead on Medicine: Medical Imaging
  • Limitations on Artificial Intelligence
  • Notes
  • Recommended Reading
  • Chapter 3 The Long Road to New Medicines
  • Medicine's Origins: The Role of Opium Since the Stone Age
  • Industrial Manufacturing of Medicines
  • Paul Ehrlich and the Birth of Chemotherapeutic Drug Discovery
  • The Pharmaceutical Industry: Drugs and War-New Medicines in the Twentieth Century
  • From Synthetic Antibiotics to the Search for New Drugs from the Microbial World
  • Developing Therapeutics for Cancer
  • Antifolates and the Emergence of DNA Synthesis Inhibitors
  • Antibiotics as Cancer Chemotherapeutic Drugs
  • Immunotherapy
  • The Pharmaceutical Business Model in the Twenty-First Century
  • R&D Productivity Challenges Within the Pharmaceutical Industry
  • Sources of Pharmaceutical Innovation: Biotechnology and New Therapeutic Modalities
  • Notes
  • Recommended Reading
  • Chapter 4 Gene Editing and the New Tools of Biotechnology
  • Molecular Biology and Biological Information Flow
  • Manipulating Gene Information with Recombinant DNA Technology
  • Genetics, Gene Discovery, and Drugs for Rare Human Diseases
  • Second-Generation Biotechnology Tools: CRISPR- Cas9 and Genome Editing Technologies
  • Human Genome Editing and Clinical Trials
  • Biotechnology to the Rescue: Vaccine Development Platforms Based on Messenger RNA
  • Recommended Reading
  • Notes
  • Chapter 5 Healthcare and the Entrance of the Technology Titans
  • Digital Health and the New Healthcare Investment Arena
  • Assessing the Tech Titans as Disruptors in Healthcare
  • Alphabet: Extending Its Tentacles Into Healthcare with Google and Other Bets
  • Apple Inc: Consumer Technology Meets Healthcare
  • Amazon: Taking Logistics to the Next Level for Delivering Healthcare
  • Echoes of the Final Frontier
  • Notes
  • Chapter 6 AI-Based Algorithms in Biology and Medicine