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Essential Bioinformatics

Essential Bioinformatics is a concise yet comprehensive textbook of bioinformatics, which provides a broad introduction to the entire field. Written specifically for a life science audience, the basics of bioinformatics are explained, followed by discussions of the state-of-the-art computational too...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jin Xiong
Format: Printed Book
Published: New York Cambridge University Press 2006
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to biological databases
  • Pairwise sequence alignment
  • Database similarity searching
  • Multiple sequence alignment
  • Profiles and hidden Markov models
  • Protein motifs and domain prediction
  • Gene prediction
  • Promoter and regulatory element prediction
  • Phylogenetics basics
  • Phylogenetic tree construction methods and programs
  • Protein structure basics
  • Protein structure visualization, comparision, and classification
  • Protein secondary structure prediction
  • Protein tertiary structure prediction
  • RNA structure prediction
  • Genome mapping, assembly, and comparison
  • Functional genomics
  • Proteomics.