Introduction to Bioinformatics

Guiding readers from the elucidation and analysis of a genomic sequence to the prediction of a protein structure and the identification of the molecular function, this work describes the rationale and limitations of the bioinformatics methods and tools that can help solve biological problems.

Overall, the book is well organized and clearly written. This book is a good mixture of theory and practical applications. graduate and research students of biostatistics who want to pursue a career in experimental biology will enjoy this book. In addition, practitioners in cancer research and forensic science will find this book quite useful. I also recommend it for library purchase. Kuldeep Kumar (Bond University), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society "Introduction to Bioinformatics serves a noble purpose Tramontano's added emphasis on proteomics should serve as an indication of a major current focus of bioinformatics and also to welcome Introduction to Bioinformatics into the canon of bioinformatics-related literature."Eric D. Foster, University of Iowa, The American Statistician, August 2008 "This book provides a nice summary of introductory topics in bioinformatics, suitable for higher-level undergraduates with some biological background looking to enter the field or masters-level graduate students. the subject matter is informative and well written for an introductory book."International Statistical Review, 2008 By reading the book from cover to cover, the reader will acquire a sense of the richness of the field of bioinformatics. Jonathan Hodgson, Zentralblatt Math, Vol. 1115 (2007/17)

Autorentext

Anna Tramontano

Inhalt
The Data: Storage and Retrieval. Genome Sequence Analysis. Protein Evolution. Similarity Searches in Databases. Amino Acid Sequence Analysis. Prediction of the Three-Dimensional Structure of a Protein. Homology Modeling. Fold Recognition Methods. New Fold Modeling. The Omics Universe.