Document type
Books
Document subtype
Research results book
Title
Data and Text Processing for Health and Life Sciences
Participants in the publication
Francisco M. Couto (Author)
Dep. Informática
LASIGE
Summary
This open access book is a step-by-step introduction on how shell scripting can help solve many of the data processing tasks that Health and Life specialists face everyday with minimal software dependencies. The examples presented in the book show how simple command line tools can be used and combined to retrieve data and text from web resources, to filter and mine literature, and to explore the semantics encoded in biomedical ontologies. To store data this book relies on open standard text file formats, such as TSV, CSV, XML, and OWL, that can be open by any text editor or spreadsheet application.\\\\n\\\\n \\\\n\\\\nThe first two chapters, Introduction and Resources, provide a brief introduction to the shell scripting and describe popular data resources in Health and Life Sciences. The third chapter, Data Retrieval, starts by introducing a common data processing task that involves multiple data resources. Then, this chapter explains how to automate each step of that task by introducing the required commands line tools one by one. The fourth chapter, Text Processing, shows how to filter and analyze text by using simple string matching techniques and regular expressions. The last chapter, Semantic Processing, shows how XPath queries and shell scripting is able to process complex data, such as the graphs used to specify ontologies.\\\\n \\\\n\\\\nBesides being almost immutable for more than four decades and being available in most of our personal computers, shell scripting is relatively easy to learn by Health and Life specialists as a sequence of independent commands. Comprehending them is like conducting a new laboratory protocol by testing and understanding its procedural steps and variables, and combining their intermediate results. Thus, this book is particularly relevant to Health and Life specialists or students that want to easily learn how to process data and text, and which in return may facilitate and inspire them to acquire deeper bioinformatics skills in the future.
Where published
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
Publication Identifiers
ISSN - 0065-2598
eISSN - 2214-8019
ISBN - 9783030138448,9783030138455
Publisher
Springer
Document Identifiers
DOI -
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13845-5
URL -
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13845-5
URL -
http://labs.rd.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/book/
Rankings
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