Ruby Programming for Medicine and Biology

Part of the JONES AND BARTLETT SERIES IN BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS Once again, Jules J. Berman provides biomedical researchers and hospital professionals with an introduction to a time-saving programming language. in this new how-to manual, Berman expertly guides both experienced and inexperienced programmers through the Ruby programming language. Ruby Programming for Medicine and Biology opens with three chapters of Ruby language instruction followed by discussions of 100 ruby scripts covering the most common computational tasks in the field of biomedicine. With helpful explanations of how scripts work, and how they might be implemented in real-world situations, readers will become familiar with this free, open source, object-oriented programming language that is quickly gaining momentum within the bioinformatics community. Interested in becoming a Biomedical Informatics Series author? Click HERE to learn more!

Overview of the Ruby Language (Level 1)	p. 1
Survey of Ruby Classes and the Ruby Standard Library (Level 1)	p. 15
Object Orientation in Ruby (Level 2)	p. 41
Ruby Extensions and Standard Libraries (Level 2)	p. 51
Biomedical Data Files Used in Later Chapters (Level 1)	p. 59
Using Ruby Strings, Hashes, Arrays, Files, and Directories (Level 1)	p. 89
Pattern Searching with Regular Expressions (Level 1)	p. 107
File/Dataset Transformations (Level 1)	p. 121
Indexing Text (Level 1)	p. 137
Searching and Mining Data (Level 1)	p. 143
Scrubbing Confidential Medical Data (Level 1)	p. 157
Autocoding Biomedical Data Using Nomenclatures (Level 3)	p. 165
Some Mathematical and Statistical Methods (Level 2)	p. 183
Cryptography and De-identification (Level 2)	p. 193
Common Gateway Interface (Level 4)	p. 207
Enter Ruby on Rails (Level 4)	p. 217
The Bioinformatics Library, Bio, and Ruby (Level 3)	p. 223
Ruby and Resource Description Framework (Level 3)	p. 227
Ruby and Biological Classifications (Level 3)	p. 263
Book Summary (Level 3)	p. 275
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