Understanding bioinformatics

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Title:

Author:

Zvelebil, Marketa J.

ISBN:

9780815340249

Personal Author:

Zvelebil, Marketa J.

Publication Information:

New York : Garland Science ; London : Taylor & Francis [distributor], 2008.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 772 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

Ch. 1. The Nucleic Acid World -- Ch. 2. Protein Structure -- Ch. 3. Dealing with Databases -- Ch. 4. Producing and Analyzing Sequence Alignments -- Ch. 5. Pairwise Sequence Alignment and Database Searching -- Ch. 6. Patterns, Profiles, and Multiple Alignments -- Ch. 7. Recovering Evolutionary History -- Ch. 8. Building Phylogenetic Trees -- Ch. 9. Revealing Genome Features -- Ch. 10. Gene Detection and Genome Annotation -- Ch. 11. Obtaining Secondary Structure from Sequence -- Ch. 12. Predicting Secondary Structures -- Ch. 13. Modeling Protein Structure -- Ch. 14. Analyzing Structure-Function Relationships -- Ch. 15. Proteome and Gene Expression Analysis -- Ch. 16. Clustering Methods and Statistics -- Ch. 17. Systems Biology -- App. A. Probability, Information, and Bayesian Analysis -- App. B. Molecular Energy Functions -- App. C. Function Optimization.

Subject Term:

Bioinformatics.

Added Author:

Baum, Jeremy O.

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Summary

Suitable for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates, Understanding Bioinformatics provides a definitive guide to this vibrant and evolving discipline. The book takes a conceptual approach. It guides the reader from first principles through to an understanding of the computational techniques and the key algorithms. Understanding Bioinformatics is an invaluable companion for students from their first encounter with the subject through to more advanced studies.

The book is divided into seven parts, with the opening part introducing the basics of nucleic acids, proteins and databases. Subsequent parts are divided into 'Applications' and 'Theory' Chapters, allowing readers to focus their attention effectively. In each section, the Applications Chapter provides a fast and straightforward route to understanding the main concepts and 'getting started'. Each of these is then followed by Theory Chapters which give greater detail and present the underlying mathematics. In Part 2, Sequence Alignments, the Applications Chapter shows the reader how to get started on producing and analyzing sequence alignments, and using sequences for database searching, while the next two chapters look closely at the more advanced techniques and the mathematical algorithms involved. Part 3 covers evolutionary processes and shows how bioinformatics can be used to help build phylogenetic trees. Part 4 looks at the characteristics of whole genomes. In Parts 5 and 6 the focus turns to secondary and tertiary structure - predicting structural conformation and analysing structure-function relationships. The last part surveys methods of analyzing data from a set of genes or proteins of an organism and is rounded off with an overview of systems biology.

The writing style of Understanding Bioinformatics is notable for its clarity, while the extensive, full-color artwork has been designed to present the key concepts with simplicity and consistency. Each chapter uses mind-maps and flow diagrams to give an overview of the conceptual links within each topic.