This book provides invaluable, up-to-date, and detailed information on various aspects of bioinformatics data analysis with applications to microbiology. It describes a number of different useful bioinformatics tools, makes links to some wet-lab techniques, and explains different approaches to tackle a problem. It also talks about current challenges and limitations, gives examples of applications of bioinformatics methods to microbiology, and discusses future trends. The rapid advancement of sequencing techniques, coupled with the new methodologies of bioinformatics to handle large-scale...