Bioinformatics and the Cell Modern Computational Approaches in Genomics, Proteomics and Transcriptomics /

• Main Author: Xia, Xuhua (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Biochemistry.; Proteomics.; Bioinformatics.; Cell biology.; Evolutionary biology.; Life Sciences.; Biochemistry, general.; Cell Biology.; Evolutionary Biology.

"Xuhua Xia’s Bioinformatics and the Cell is a welcome addition to the bourgeoning field of bioinformatics text books. Xia stakes out a too-often neglected middle ground in bioinformatics by presenting a work that emphasizes methods’ biological utility without eschewing algorithmic formalism. Re...

Table of Contents:

• Blast and Fasta
• Sequence alignment
• Contig assembly
• DNA replication and viral evolution
• Gene and motif prediction
• Hidden Markov Models
• Gibbs Sampler
• Bioinformatics and vertebrate mitochondria
• Characterizing translation efficiency
• Protein isoelectric point
• Bioinformatics and Two-Dimensional Protein Separation
• Self-Organizing Map and other clustering Algorithms
• Molecular Phylogenetics
• Fundamentals of Proteomics.