Essential bioinformatics / Jin Xiong.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Xiong, Jin
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Bioinformatics.
Computational Biology.
Physical Description:xi, 339 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction to biological databases
  • Pairwise sequence alignment
  • Database similarity searching
  • Multiple sequence alignment
  • Profiles and hidden Markov models
  • Protein motifs and domain prediction
  • Gene prediction
  • Promoter and regulatory element prediction
  • Phylogenetics basics
  • Phylogenetic tree construction methods and programs
  • Protein structure basics
  • Protein structure visualization, comparision, and classification
  • Protein secondary structure prediction
  • Protein tertiary structure prediction
  • RNA structure prediction
  • Genome mapping, assembly, and comparison
  • Functional genomics
  • Proteomics.