Next Generation Sequencing and Sequence Assembly Methodologies and Algorithms /

• Main Authors: Masoudi-Nejad, Ali (Author), Narimani, Zahra (Author), Hosseinkhan, Nazanin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Systems Biology, 4
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Systems biology.; Biomedicine.; Human Genetics.; Systems Biology.; Biomedicine general.

The goal of this book is to introduce the biological and technical aspects of next generation sequencing methods, as well as algorithms to assemble these sequences into whole genomes. The book is organized into two parts; part 1 introduces NGS methods and part 2 reviews assembly algorithms and gives...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Next generation sequencing methodologies
• Emergence of next generation sequencing
• Assembly of sequencing data
• De novo assembly algorithms
• Index.