Bioinformatics

<p>Bioinformatics is a field of study that integrates biological sciences with computer science. This book is the first of its<br>kind written for students and teachers. It gives the readers an insight into genomics and proteomics including origin<br>and history of bioinformatics computer generations their types and operating systems role of PERL and JAVA as<br>programming languages central dogma of molecular biology with structural details of DNA RNA and proteins and<br>fundamental techniques used to study their structures the database retrieval with PubMed Entrez SRS OMIM<br>ExPASy and EMBL the BLAST and FASTA software packages to determine sequence matches the computational<br>methods for gene prediction protein sequence databases Swiss-Prot PDB software for visualization of protein<br>structure and the concepts of gene genome and genomics with the prime role of GenBank DDBJ TIGR KEGG<br>genomics of bacteriophage to HGP gene therapy drug designing and pharmacogenomics. Several web pages with<br>their specific URLs are provided that will definitely help readers to interact and learn more about cutting-edge<br>research and visualize complex processes involved in bioinformatics.</p><p><em><strong>Contents</strong></em></p><ul><li>Introduction</li><li>Evolution of Computers</li><li>Biological Macromolecules</li><li>Basic Techniques in Bioinformatics</li><li>Biological Databases</li><li>Sequence Alignment</li><li>Multiple Sequence Alignments</li><li>Computational Gene Prediction</li><li>Proteomics</li><li>Genomics</li></ul>