Concepts in Bioinformatics and Genomics

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-061054-8
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 280 mm, Gewicht: 1727 g

Concepts in Bioinformatics and Genomics takes a conceptual approach to its subject, balancing biology, mathematics, and programming while highlighting relevant real-world applications and providing students with the tools to compute and analyze biological data. It presents many thought-provoking exercises to stretch students' imaginations, giving them a deeper understanding of the molecular biology, basic probability, software programs, and program-coding methodology underpinning this exciting field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Momand

Momand, Jamil

McCurdy, Alison

Heubach, Silvia

Warter-Perez, Nancy

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- About the Author

- 1: Review of Molecular Biology

- 2: Information organization and sequence databases

- 3: Molecular Evolution

- 4: Substitution matrices

- 5: Pairwise sequence alignment

- 6: Basic Local Alignment Sequence Tool and Multiple Sequence Alignment

- 7: Protein structure prediction

- 8: Phylogenetics

- 9: Genomics

- 10: Transcript and protein expression analysis

- 11: Basic probability

- 12: Advanced probability for bioinformatics applications

- 13: Programming basics and applications to bioinformatics

- 14: Developing a bioinformatics tool

- Glossary

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jamil Momand has been a professor of biochemistry at California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA) since 1999. Dr. Momand received the Cal State LA Outstanding Professor Award for the 2014-2015 academic year.

Alison McCurdy is a Professor of Chemistry at California State University, Los Angeles. She was the recipient of the 2009 California State University Distinguished Woman Award.