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More About This Title Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics
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Preface.
PART I: ANALYZING DNA, RNA, AND PROTEIN SEQUENCES IN DATABASES.
1. Introduction.
2. Access to Sequence Data and Literature Information.
3. Pairwise Sequence Alignment.
4. Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST).
5. Advanced BLAST Searching.
PART II: GENOMEWIDE ANALYSIS OF RNA AND PROTEIN.
6. Bioinformatic Approaches to Gene Expression.
7. Gene Expression: Microarray Data Analysis.
8. Protein Analysis and Proteomics.
9. Protein Structure.
10. Multiple Sequence Alignment.
11. Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution.
PART III: GENOME ANALYSIS.
12. Completed Genomes and the Tree of Life.
13. Completed Genomes: Viruses.
14. Completed Genomes: Bacteria and Archaea.
15. Eukaryotic Genomes: Fungi.
16. Eukaryotic Genomes: From Parasites to Primates.
17. Human Genome.
18. Human Disease.
Epilogue.
Appendix: GCG for Protein and DNA Analysis.
Glossary.
Solutions to Self-Test Quizzes.
Subject Index.
Author Index.
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"…this appears to be an excellent textbook for graduate students and upper level undergraduate students." (Annals of Biomedical Engineering, July 2004, 32, 7)
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"I was particularly impressed by the comprehensible and comprehensive treatment of BLAST - the best that I have seen. One is guided from choosing the appropriate type of BLAST program, database and search parameters through to refining and analysing the significance of the search results--all illustrated with clear examples."--David P. Leader, University of Glasgow
"I would not hesitate for a moment to propose Jonathan Pevsner’s new book as a standard course for biologists who need a serious, practical knowledge of modern bioinformatics. Dr. Pevsner does a masterful job at presenting virtually every major topic in bioinformatics and computational genomics, from the basics of sequence analysis, to microarray data classification, accurately and at a considerable level of detail but without any complex mathematics. In addition to being an extremely useful textbook, Pevsner’s book is a very nice read, due in large part, to carefully constructed questions and suggestions for discussion, and wonderful historical vignettes. In short, a great bioinformatics book for biologists!"
--Eugene V. Koonin, Ph.D., National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
