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Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics

In this broad-based introduction Jonathan Pevsner presents the background theory to bioinformatics. Each chapter includes a problem set, pitfalls, boxes explaining key techniques and mathematics/statistics principles, summary, recommended reading, and a list of freely available software.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jonathan Pevsner
Format: Printed Book
Published: New Delhi Wiley India Pvt. Ltd. 2015
Edition:Third edition
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Access to sequence data and related information
  • Pairwise sequence alignment
  • Basic local alignment search tool (BLAST)
  • Advanced database searching
  • Multiple sequence alignment
  • Molecular phylogeny and evolution
  • DNA : the eukaryotic chromosome
  • Analysis of next-generation sequence data
  • Bioinformatic approaches to ribonucleic acid (RNA)
  • Gene expression : microarray and RNA-seq data analysis
  • Protein analysis and proteomics
  • Protein structure
  • Functional genomics
  • Genomes across the tree of life
  • Completed genomes : viruses
  • Completed genomes : bacteria and archaea
  • Eukaryotic genomes : fungi
  • Eukaryotic genomes : from parasites to primates
  • Human genome
  • Human disease.