Bioinformatics: Applications in Life and Environmental Sciences

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fulekar, M. H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Bioinformatics.; Environmental sciences.; Life Sciences.; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science.

Bioinformatics, computational biology, is a relatively new field that applies computer science and information technology to biology. In recent years, the discipline of bioinformatics has allowed biologists to make full use of the advances in Computer sciences and Computational statistics for advanc...

Table of Contents:

• Bioinformatics in Life and Environmental Sciences
• Role of Computers in Bioinformatics
• Comparative Genomics and Proteomics
• Bioinformatics—Structural Biology Interface
• Statistical Mining of Gene and Protein Databanks
• Building Bioinformatic Database Systems
• Bio-sequence Signatures Using Chaos Game Representation
• Data Mining for Bioinformatics — Microarray Data
• Data Mining for Bioinformatics— Systems Biology
• Environmental Cleanup Approach Using Bioinformatics in Bioremediation
• Nanotechnology — In Relation to Bioinformatics
• Bioinformatics—Research Applications.