Ruby programming for medicine and biology / Jules J. Berman.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-304) and index.

Overview of the Ruby language (level 1) -- Survey of Ruby classes and the Ruby standard library (level 1) -- Object orientation in Ruby (level 2) -- Ruby extensions and standard libraries (level 2) -- Biomedical data files used in later chapters (level 1) -- Using Ruby strings, hashes, arrays, files, and directories (level 1) -- Pattern searching with regular expressions (level 1) -- File/dataset transformations (level 1) -- Indexing text (level 1) -- Searching and mining data (level 1) -- Scrubbing confidential medical data (level 1) -- Autocoding biomedical data using nomenclatures (level 3) -- Some mathematical and statistical methods (level 2) -- Cryptography and de-identification (level 2) -- Common gateway interface (level 4) -- Enter Ruby on Rails (level 4) -- The bioinformatics library, Bio, and Ruby (level 3) -- Ruby and resource description framework (level 3) -- Ruby and biological classifications (level 3) -- Book summary (level 3).