Video Bioinformatics

The
advances of live cell video imaging and high-throughput technologies for
functional and chemical genomics provide unprecedented opportunities to
understand how biological processes work in subcellular and multicellular
systems. The interdisciplinary research field of Video Bioinformatics is
defined by Bir Bhanu as the automated processing, analysis, understanding, data
mining, visualization, query-based retrieval/storage of biological
spatiotemporal events/data and knowledge extracted from dynamic images and
microscopic videos. Video bioinformatics attempts to provide a deeper
understanding of continuous and dynamic life processes.

Genome
sequences alone lack spatial and temporal information, and video imaging of
specific molecules and their spatiotemporal interactions, using a range of
imaging methods, are essential to understand how genomes create cells, how
cells constitute organisms, and how errant cells cause disease. The book examines
interdisciplinary research issues and challenges with examples that deal with
organismal dynamics, intercellular and tissue dynamics, intracellular dynamics,
protein movement, cell signaling and software and databases for video
bioinformatics.

Topics and Features
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Covers a set of
biological problems, their significance, live-imaging experiments, theory and computational
methods, quantifiable experimental results and discussion of results.
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Provides automated
methods for analyzing mild traumatic brain injury over time, identifying injury
dynamicsafter neonatal hypoxia-ischemia and visualizing cortical tissue
changes during seizure activity as examples of organismal dynamics
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Describes techniques for
quantifying the dynamics of human embryonic stem cells with examples of cell
detection/segmentation, spreading and other dynamic behaviors which are
important for characterizing stem cell health
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Examines and quantifies
dynamic processes in plant and fungal systems such as cell trafficking, growth
of pollen tubes in model systems such as Neurospora Crassa and Arabidopsis
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Discusses the dynamics
of intracellular molecules for DNA repair and the regulation of cofilin transport
using video analysis
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Discusses software,
system and database aspects of video bioinformatics by providing examples of 5D
cell tracking by FARSIGHT open source toolkit, a survey on available databases
and software, biological processes for non-verbal communications and
identification and retrieval of moth images

This
unique text will be of great interest to researchers and graduate students of
Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Bioengineering, Cell Biology,
Toxicology, Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition, Medical Image Analysis, and Cell Molecular and Developmental
Biology. The large number of example applications will also appeal to
application scientists and engineers.

Dr. Bir Bhanu is
Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Interim Chair
of the Department of Bioengineering, Cooperative Professor of Computer Science
& Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering
and the Director of the Center for Research in Intelligent Systems, at the
University of California, Riverside,
California, USA.

Dr.
Prue Talbot is Professor of Cell Biology & Neuroscience and Director of the
Stem Cell Center and Core at the University of
California Riverside, California, USA.