Understanding Bioinformatics

Marketa Zvelebil, Breakthrough Toby Robins Cancer Centre, Institute of Cancer Research, UK & Jeremy O. Baum, Birkbeck College, UK

Garland Science ~ Publishing September 2007 ~ 800 pages ~ 650 full-colour illustrations ~ ISBN: 978-0-8153-4024-9 ~ Price: Ł41.99  

 

Dear Mr Emanuele Rinaldis

 

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PART 1 Background Basics

Chapter 1: The Nucleic Acid World

Chapter 2: Protein Structure

Chapter 3: Dealing With Databases

PART 2 Sequence Alignments

Chapter 4: Producing and Analyzing Sequence Alignments 

Chapter 5: Pairwise Sequence Alignment and Database Searching 

Chapter 6: Patterns, Profiles, and Multiple Alignments 

PART 3 Evolutionary Processes

Chapter 7: Recovering Evolutionary History 

Chapter 8: Building Phylogenetic Trees 

PART 4 Genome Characteristics

Chapter 9: Revealing Genome Features 

Chapter 10: Gene Detection and Genome Annotation 

PART 5 Secondary Structures

Chapter 11: Obtaining Secondary Structure from Sequence 

Chapter 12: Predicting Secondary Structures 

PART 6 Tertiary Structures

Chapter 13: Modeling Protein Structure 

Chapter 14: Analyzing Structure-Function Relationships 

PART 7 Cells and Organisms

Chapter 15: Proteome and Gene Expression Analysis 

Chapter 16: Clustering Methods and Statistics 

Chapter 17: Systems Biology 

APPENDICES Background Theory

Appendix A: Probability, Information, and Bayesian Analysis 

Appendix B: Molecular Energy Functions 

Appendix C: Function Optimization

 

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