Your Passport to a Career in Bioinformatics

2. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-981-15-9543-1
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 115 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 213 g

This book which is the second edition of Your Passport to a Career in Bioinformatics, is intended for students who plan to work in bioinformatics. In addition to addressing the opportunities and challenges faced by today’s bioinformatics community, it demonstrates how bioinformatics is currently transitioning from research to vocation and avocation. Further, it extols the virtues of in silico for bioinformatics predictions, as it helps wet-lab biologists reduce the time needed for experiments.

In turn, the book addresses career prospects and the Ten Commandments for becoming a bioinformatics professional; bioinformatics for developing countries; bioinformatics for schools; bioinformatics for markets; and the knowns and unknowns of bioinformatics. It also explores how bioinformatics interacts with various fields in terms of three Cs: consistency, continuity, and credibility.

Zielgruppe

Upper undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Suravajhala, Prashanth N.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Angewandte Biologie Bioinformatik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Bioinformatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Whither Bioinformatics?.- Chapter 2. Ten Reasons One Should take Bioinformatics as Career.- Chapter 3. Developing Bioinformatics Skills.- Chapter 4. The  Esoteric of Bioinformatics.- Chapter 5. Common Minimum Standards: A Syllabus for Bioinformatics Practitioners.- Chapter 6. Colloquial Group Discussion on Bioinformatics: Grand Challenges.- Chapter 7. The Bioinforma ‘TICKS’: Frequently Asked Questions.- Chapter 8. Undergraduate education in bioinformatics – progress and lessons learnt from an engineering degree.- Chapter 9. Engineering Minds for Biologists.- Chapter 10. Design Bioinformatics Curriculums Guidelines: perspectives.- Chapter 11. Machine learning for Bioinformatics. 

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Prashanth N Suravajhala is currently working as a Senior Scientist at Birla Institute of Scientific Research (BISR), Jaipur. Previously, he has obtained a Ph.D. in Systems Biology. He has been involved in various projects specific to immunomodulatory/metabolic diseases and cancer biology. He has identified candidate genes using in silico approaches and provided a standard classification and scoring scheme for characterizing hypothetical proteins in vitro, specifically those that are targeted to mitochondria. More recently, his interests have expanded to transcriptomic profiling, functional proteomics and molecular genetics of cancer/diseasome approaches linked to evolutionary aspects in understanding functional aspects of regulatory genes, epigenomic profiling, miRNAs, and long non-coding RNAs. He is a founder of Bioclues.org, a not-for-profit organization through which he mentors bioinformatics graduates. 

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