Data and Text Processing for Health and Life Sciences

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 sim

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Francisco Couto

Data and Text Processing for Health and Life Sciences

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology Volume 1137 Editorial Board IRUN R. COHEN, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel ABEL LAJTHA, N.S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA JOHN D. LAMBRIS, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA RODOLFO PAOLETTI, University of Milan, Milano, Italy NIMA REZAEI, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Children’s Medical Center Hospital, Tehran, Iran

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Francisco M. Couto

Data and Text Processing for Health and Life Sciences

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Francisco M. Couto LASIGE, Department of Informatics Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa Lisbon, Portugal

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Aos meus pais, Francisco de Oliveira Couto e Maria Fernanda dos Santos Moreira Couto.

Preface

During the last decades, I witnessed the growing importance of computer science skills for career advancement in Health and Life Sciences. However, n