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A textbook "Invitation
to
Biomathematics", designed for an undergraduate course in
mathematical
biology and written by the project leaders, is currently in production
from Elsevier/Academic Press. A lab manual of hands-on
computer-assisted
projects is also in press. These projects are extensions
of the theory and methods presented in the text, and could be used in
conjunction with the text or as separate modules in conventional
biology and mathematics courses.
The focus of this material is to develop
the skills crucial for applying mathematical methods to the life
sciences. These include the ability to look at an unfamiliar problem,
analyze it to determine the type of data necessary to address the
problem, select appropriate mathematical tools to be applied to
available data sets, and draw conclusions on the adequacy of the
results. We refer to such skills as quantification skills.
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