Deep Learning in Bioinformatics: Techniques and Applications in Practice

Deep Learning in Bioinformatics: Techniques and Applications in Practice, Second Edition explores how deep learning can be utilized for addressing important problems in bioinformatics, including drug discovery, de novo molecular design, sequence analysis, protein structure prediction, gene expression regulation, protein classification, biomedical image processing and diagnosis, biomolecule interaction prediction, and in systems biology. The book also presents theoretical and practical successes of deep learning in bioinformatics, pointing out problems and suggesting future research directions. This updated edition includes several new chapters, applications, and examples for new Deep Learning advances and techniques.

Dr. Izadkhah provides valuable insights and will help researchers use deep learning techniques in their biological and bioinformatics studies.

• Introduces deep learning in an easy-to-understand way
• Presents how deep learning can be utilized for addressing many important problems in bioinformatics
• Provides state-of-the-art algorithms in deep learning and bioinformatics
• Introduces deep learning libraries in bioinformatics

Dr. Habib Izadkhah is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Tabriz, Iran. He worked in the industry for a decade as a software engineer before becoming an academic. His research interests include algorithms and graphs, software engineering, and bioinformatics. More recently he has been working on the developing and applying Deep Learning to a variety of problems, dealing with biomedical images, speech recognition, text understanding, and generative models. He has contributed to various research projects, authored a number of research papers in international conferences, workshops, and journals, and also has written five books, including Source Code Modularization: Theory and Techniques from Springer.