Bioinformatics

• Main Authors: Polanski, Andrzej (Author), Kimmel, Marek (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computers.; Pattern recognition.; Bioinformatics.; Life sciences.; Computational biology.; Computer Science.; Theory of Computation.; Life Sciences, general.; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics.; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences.; Pattern Recognition.

Bioinformatics as a discipline arose out of the need to introduce order into the massive data sets produced by the new technologies of molecular biology: large-scale DNA sequencing, measurements of RNA concentrations in multiple gene expression arrays, and new profiling techniques in proteomics. As...