Life Science Data Mining

This book broadly covers the given spectrum of disciplines in Computational Life Sciences, transforming it into a strong helping hand for teachers, students, practitioners and researchers. In Life Sciences, problem-solving and data analysis often depend on biological expertise combined with technical skills in order to generate, manage and efficiently analyse big data. These technical skills can easily be enhanced by good theoretical foundations, developed from well-chosen practical examples and inspiring new strategies. This is the innovative approach of Computational Life Sciences-Data Engineering and Data Mining for Life Sciences: We present basic concepts, advanced topics and emerging technologies, introduce algorithm design and programming principles, address data mining and knowledge discovery as well as applications arising from real projects. Chapters are largely independent and often flanked by illustrative examples and practical advise.

Data mining provides a set of new techniques to integrate, synthesize, and analyze tdata, uncovering the hidden patterns that exist within. Traditionally, techniques such as kernel learning methods, pattern recognition, and data mining, have been the domain of researchers in areas such as artificial intelligence, but leveraging these tools, techniques, and concepts against your data asset to identify problems early, understand interactions that exist and highlight previously unrealized relationships through the combination of these different disciplines can provide significant value for the investigator and her organization.

Most life science researchers will agree that biology is not a truly theoretical branch of science. The hype around computational biology and bioinformatics beginning in the nineties of the 20th century was to be short lived (1, 2). When almost no value of practical importance such as the optimal dose of a drug or the three-dimensional structure of an orphan protein can be computed from fundamental principles, it is still more straightforward to determine them experimentally. Thus, experiments and observationsdogeneratetheoverwhelmingpartofinsightsintobiologyandmedicine. The extrapolation depth and the prediction power of the theoretical argument in life sciences still have a long way to go. Yet, two trends have qualitatively changed the way how biological research is done today. The number of researchers has dramatically grown and they, armed with the same protocols, have produced lots of similarly structured data. Finally, high-throu- put technologies such as DNA sequencing or array-based expression profiling have been around for just a decade. Nevertheless, with their high level of uniform data generation, they reach the threshold of totally describing a living organism at the biomolecular level for the first time in human history. Whereas getting exact data about living systems and the sophistication of experimental procedures have primarily absorbed the minds of researchers previously, the weight increasingly shifts to the problem of interpreting accumulated data in terms of biological function and bio- lecular mechanisms.

Most life science researchers will agree that biology is not a truly theoretical branch of science. The hype around computational biology and bioinformatics beginning in the nineties of the 20th century was to be short lived (1, 2). When almost no value of practical importance such as the optimal dose of a drug or the three-dimensional structure of an orphan protein can be computed from fundamental principles, it is still more straightforward to determine them experimentally. Thus, experiments and observationsdogeneratetheoverwhelmingpartofinsightsintobiologyandmedicine. The extrapolation depth and the prediction power of the theoretical argument in life sciences still have a long way to go. Yet, two trends have qualitatively changed the way how biological research is done today. The number of researchers has dramatically grown and they, armed with the same protocols, have produced lots of similarly structured data. Finally, high-throu- put technologies such as DNA sequencing or array-based expression profiling have been around for just a decade. Nevertheless, with their high level of uniform data generation, they reach the threshold of totally describing a living organism at the biomolecular level for the first time in human history. Whereas getting exact data about living systems and the sophistication of experimental procedures have primarily absorbed the minds of researchers previously, the weight increasingly shifts to the problem of interpreting accumulated data in terms of biological function and bio- lecular mechanisms.

This timely book identifies and highlights the latest data mining paradigms to analyze, combine, integrate, model and simulate vast amounts of heterogeneous multi-modal, multi-scale data for emerging real-world applications in life science.The cutting-edge topics presented include bio-surveillance, disease outbreak detection, high throughput bioimaging, drug screening, predictive toxicology, biosensors, and the integration of macro-scale bio-surveillance and environmental data with micro-scale biological data for personalized medicine. This collection of works from leading researchers in the field offers readers an exceptional start in these areas.

Biologists are stepping up their efforts in understanding the biological processes that underlie disease pathways in the clinical contexts. This has resulted in a flood of biological and clinical data from genomic and protein sequences, DNA microarrays, protein interactions, biomedical images, to disease pathways and electronic health records. To exploit these data for discovering new knowledge that can be translated into clinical applications, there are fundamental data analysis difficulties that have to be overcome. Practical issues such as handling noisy and incomplete data, processing compute-intensive tasks, and integrating various data sources, are new challenges faced by biologists in the post-genome era. This book will cover the fundamentals of state-of-the-art data mining techniques which have been designed to handle such challenging data analysis problems, and demonstrate with real applications how biologists and clinical scientists can employ data mining to enable them to make meaningful observations and discoveries from a wide array of heterogeneous data from molecular biology to pharmaceutical and clinical domains. Contents:Sequence Analysis:Mining the Sequence Databases for Homology Detection: Application to Recognition of Functions of Trypanosoma brucei brucei Proteins and Drug Targets (G Ramakrishnan, V S Gowri, R Mudgal, N R Chandra and N Srinivasan)Identification of Genes and Their Regulatory Regions Based on Multiple Physical and Structural Properties of a DNA Sequence (Xi Yang, Nancy Yu Song and Hong Yan)Mining Genomic Sequence Data for Related Sequences Using Pairwise Statistical Significance (Yuhong Zhang and Yunbo Rao)Biological Network Mining:Indexing for Similarity Queries on Biological Networks (Günhan Gülsoy, Md Mahmudul Hasan, Yusuf Kavurucu and Tamer Kahveci)Theory and Method of Completion for a Boolean Regulatory Network Using Observed Data (Takeyuki Tamura and Tatsuya Akutsu)Mining Frequent Subgraph Patterns for Classifying Biological Data (Saeed Salem)On the Integration of Prior Knowledge in the Inference of Regulatory Networks (Catharina Olsen, Benjamin Haibe-Kains, John Quackenbush and Gianluca Bontempi)Classification, Trend Analysis and 3D Medical Images:Classification and Its Application to Drug-Target Prediction (Jian-Ping Mei, Chee-Keong Kwoh, Peng Yang and Xiao-Li Li)Characterization and Prediction of Human Protein-Protein Interactions (Yi Xiong, Dan Syzmanski and Daisuke Kihara)Trend Analysis (Wen-Chuan Xie, Miao He and Jake Yue Chen)Data Acquisition and Preprocessing on Three Dimensional Medical Images (Yuhua Jiao, Liang Chen and Jin Chen)Text Mining and Its Biomedical Applications:Text Mining in Biomedicine and Healthcare (Hong-Jie Dai, Chi-Yang Wu, Richard Tzong-Han Tsai and Wen-Lian Hsu)Learning to Rank Biomedical Documents with Only Positive and Unlabeled Examples: A Case Study (Mingzhu Zhu, Yi-Fang Brook Wu, Meghana Samir Vasavada and Jason T L Wang)Automated Mining of Disease-Specific Protein Interaction Networks Based on Biomedical Literature (Rajesh Chowdhary, Boris R Jankovic, Rachel V Stankowski, John A C Archer, Xiangliang Zhang, Xin Gao, Vladimir B Bajic) Readership: Students, professionals, those who perform biological, medical and bioinformatics research. Keywords:Healthcare;Data Mining;Biological Data Mining;Protein Interactions;Gene Regulation;Text Mining;Biological Literature Mining;Drug Discovery;Disease Network;Biological Network;Graph Mining;Sequence Analysis;Structure Analysis;Trend Analysis;Medical ImagesKey Features:Each chapter of this book will include a section to introduce a specific class of data mining techniques, which will be written in a tutorial style so that even non-computational readers such as biologists and healthcare researchers can appreciate themThe book will disseminate the impact research results and best practices of data mining approaches to the cross-disciplinary researchers and practitioners from both the data mining disciplines and the life sciences domains. The authors of the book will be well-known data mining experts, bioinformaticians and cliniciansEach chapter will also provide a detailed description on how to apply the data mining techniques in real-world biological and clinical applications. Thus, readers of this book can easily appreciate the computational techniques and how they can be used to address their own research issues

Like a data-guzzling turbo engine, advanced data mining has been powering post-genome biological studies for two decades. Reflecting this growth, Biological Data Mining presents comprehensive data mining concepts, theories, and applications in current biological and medical research. Each chapter is written by a distinguished team of interdisciplin