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978-3-030-13845-5

Data and Text Processing for Health and Life Sciences

Publication year: 2019

ISBN: 978-3-030-13845-5

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This 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.


Subject: Biomedical and Life Sciences, health and life sciences, text repositories, information retrieval, linked data, validation, Cancer Research, Human Genetics, Database Management, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery