Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills

Bioinformatics--the application of computational and analytical methods to biological problems--is a rapidly evolving scientific discipline. Genome sequencing projects are producing vast amounts of biological data for many different organisms, and, increasingly, storing these data in public database...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cynthia Gibas, Per Jambeck
Format: Printed Book
Published: Shroff Publishers & distributors PVT.LTD. /O'Reilly Media 2001
Subjects:
Bioinformatics. Computational Biology.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction. 1. Biology in the Computer Age. 2. Computational Approaches to Biological Questions
  • II. The Bioinformatics Workstation. 3. Setting Up Your Workstation. 4. Files and Directories in Unix. 5. Working on a Unix System
  • III. Tools for Bioinformatics. 6. Biological Research on the Web. 7. Sequence Analysis, Pairwise Alignment, and Database Searching. 8. Multiple Sequence Alignments, Trees, and Profiles. 9. Visualizing Protein Structures and Computing Structural Properties. 10. Predicting Protein Structure and Function from Sequence. 11. Tools for Genomics and Proteomics
  • IV. Databases and Visualization. 12. Automating Data Analysis with Perl. 13. Building Biological Databases. 14. Visualization and Data Mining.

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