Computing for Comparative Microbial Genomics Bioinformatics for Microbiologists /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ussery, David W. (Editor), Wassenaar, Trudy M. (Editor), Borini, Stefano (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Series: Computational Biology, 8
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Human genetics.; Computer science.; Computers.; Bioinformatics.; Microbiology.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Life Sciences.; Computer Science, general.; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.; Computing Methodologies.; Human Genetics.

The major difficulty many microbiologists face is simply that of too much information. As a result of sequencing technologies becoming so economical, there is a very real and pressing need for high-throughput computational methods to compare hundreds and thousands of bacterial genomes. This accessib...