Overview
Computer scientists have increasingly been enlisted as "bioinformaticians" to assist molecular biologists in their research. This book is a practical introduction to bioinformatics for these computer scientists. The chapters are in-depth discussions by expert bioinformaticians on both general techniques and specific approaches to a range of selected bioinformatics problems. The book is organized into clusters of chapters on the following topics: - Overview of modern molecular biology and a broad spectrum of techniques from computer science -- data mining, machine learning, mathematical modeling, sequence alignment, data integration, workflow development, etc.- In-depth discussion of computational recognition of functional and regulatory sites in DNA sequences.- Incisive discussion of computational prediction of secondary structure of RNA sequences.- Overview of computational prediction of protein cellular localization, and selected discussions of inference of protein function.- Overview of methods for discovering protein-protein interactions.- Detailed discussion of approaches to gene expression analysis for the diagnosis of diseases, the treatment of diseases, and the understanding of gene functions.- Case studies on analysis of phylogenies, functional annotation of proteins, construction of purpose-built integrated biological databases, and development of workflows underlying the large-scale-effort gene discovery.
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- ISBN-13: 9789812566652
- ISBN-10: 9812566651
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
- Publish Date: May 2004
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.09 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.57 pounds
- Page Count: 540
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