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Understanding bioinformatics

Author: Marketa J Zvelebil; Jeremy O Baum
Publisher: New York : Garland Science, ©2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Provides a guide to the field of Bioinformatics and takes reader from first principles through to an understanding of computational techniques and algorithms. It introduces the basics of nucleic  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Marketa J Zvelebil; Jeremy O Baum
ISBN: 9780815340249 0815340249
OCLC Number: 152795716
Description: xxiii, 772 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.
Contents: pt. 1. Background basics --
The nucleic acid world --
Protein structure --
Dealing with databases --
pt. 2. Sequence alignments --
Producing and analyzing sequence alignments --
Pairwise sequence alignment and database searching --
Patterns, profiles, and multiple alignments --
pt. 3. Evolutionary processes --
Recovering evolutionary history --
Building phylogenetic trees --
pt. 4. Genome characteristics --
Revealing genome features --
Gene detection and genome annotation --
pt. 5. Secondary structures --
Obtaining secondary structure from sequence --
Predicting secondary structures --
pt. 6. Tertiary structures --
Modeling protein structure --
Analyzing structure-function relationships --
pt. 7. Cells and organisms --
Proteome and gene expression analysis --
Clustering methods and statistics --
Systems biology.
Responsibility: Marketa Zvelebil & Jeremy O. Baum.
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