This comprehensive textbook/reference presents a self-contained guide to bioinformatics, defined in its broadest sense as the application of information science to biology.
Thoroughly updated and considerably expanded, this third edition now includes material on the growing array of "-omics"; covering metagenomics, toxicogenomics, glycomics, lipidomics, microbiomics, and phenomics. New chapters have also been added on ecosystems management and the nervous system. Emphasis is placed on providing both a firm grounding in the core concepts, and a clear overview of the complete field of...
This comprehensive textbook/reference presents a self-contained guide to bioinformatics, defined in its broadest sense as the application of inform...
This unique text/reference presents a selection of innovative computational techniques to enable the efficient analysis of biological processes in large video sequences and databases. Examples are drawn from numerous topics of significant current interest, such as 2D/3D live imaging, mild-traumatic brain injury, human embryonic stem cells, the growth of pollen tubes, cell tracking, and cell trafficking. To address various challenges, multiple imaging modalities are proposed at varying spatial and temporal resolutions, in conjunction with novel computational methods for video mining and...
This unique text/reference presents a selection of innovative computational techniques to enable the efficient analysis of biological processes in ...
This unique textbook/reference presents unified coverage of bioinformatics topics relating to both biological sequences and biological networks, providing an in-depth analysis of cutting-edge distributed algorithms, as well as of relevant sequential algorithms. In addition to introducing the latest algorithms in this area, more than fifteen new distributed algorithms are also proposed. Topics and features: reviews a range of open challenges in biological sequences and networks; describes in detail both sequential and parallel/distributed algorithms for each problem; suggests approaches for...
This unique textbook/reference presents unified coverage of bioinformatics topics relating to both biological sequences and biological networks, pr...
Evolutionary genomics is a new discipline that bridges the fields of molecular evolution, bioinformatics and genomics in order to provide a unique perspective on the history of life.
This easy-to-follow textbook is the first of its kind to explain the fundamentals of evolutionary genomics. The comprehensive coverage includes concise descriptions of a variety of genome organizations, a thorough discussion of the methods used, and a detailed review of genome sequence processing procedures. The opening chapters also provide the necessary basics for readers unfamiliar with evolutionary...
Evolutionary genomics is a new discipline that bridges the fields of molecular evolution, bioinformatics and genomics in order to provide a unique ...
This comprehensive textbook/reference presents a self-contained guide to bioinformatics, defined in its broadest sense as the application of information science to biology.
Thoroughly updated and considerably expanded, this third edition now includes material on the growing array of "-omics"; covering metagenomics, toxicogenomics, glycomics, lipidomics, microbiomics, and phenomics. New chapters have also been added on ecosystems management and the nervous system. Emphasis is placed on providing both a firm grounding in the core concepts, and a clear overview of the complete field of...
This comprehensive textbook/reference presents a self-contained guide to bioinformatics, defined in its broadest sense as the application of inform...
This authoritative text/reference presents a review of the history, current status, and potential future directions of computational biology in molecular evolution.
Gathering together the unique insights of an international selection of prestigious researchers, this must-read volume examines the latest developments in the field, the challenges that remain, and the new avenues emerging from the growing influx of sequence data. These viewpoints build upon the pioneering work of David Sankoff, one of the founding fathers of computational biology, and mark the 50th anniversary...
This authoritative text/reference presents a review of the history, current status, and potential future directions of computational biology in mol...
This unique text/reference presents a concise guide to building computational gene finders, and describes the state of the art in computational gene finding methods, with a particular focus on comparative approaches. Fully updated and expanded, this new edition examines next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology, including annotation pipelines for NGS data. The book also discusses conditional random fields, enhancing the broad coverage of topics spanning probability theory, statistics, information theory, optimization theory, and numerical analysis.
Topics and features: introduces...
This unique text/reference presents a concise guide to building computational gene finders, and describes the state of the art in computational gen...
This book focuses on the data mining, systems biology, and bioinformatics computational methods that can be used to summarize biological networks. Specifically, it discusses an array of techniques related to biological network clustering, network summarization, and differential network analysis which enable readers to uncover the functional and topological organization hidden in a large biological network. The authors also examine crucial open research problems in this arena. Academics, researchers, and advanced-level students will find this book to be a comprehensive and exceptional...
This book focuses on the data mining, systems biology, and bioinformatics computational methods that can be used to summarize biological networks. Spe...
Today, as hundreds of genomes have been sequenced and thousands of proteins and more than ten thousand metabolites have been identi?ed, navigating safely through this wealth of information without getting completely lost has become crucial for research in, and teaching of, molecular biology. Consequently, a considerable number of tools have been developed and put on the market in the last two decades that describe the multitude of potential/putative interactions between genes, proteins, metabolites, and other biologically relevant compounds in terms of metabolic, genetic, signaling, and other...
Today, as hundreds of genomes have been sequenced and thousands of proteins and more than ten thousand metabolites have been identi?ed, navigating saf...
