Data Mining in Computational Biology
Srinivas Aluru · 2005
Data Mining is the process of automatic discovery of valid, novel, useful, and understandable patterns, associations, changes, anomalies, and statistically significant structures from large amounts of data. It is an interdisciplinary field merging ideas from statistics, machine learning, database systems and data-warehousing, high-performance computing, as well as visualization and human-computer interaction. It has been engendered by the phenomenal growth of data in all spheres of human endeavor, and the economic and scientific need to extract useful information from the collected data.