ABSTRACT

Practical Bioinformatics is specifically designed for biology majors, with a heavy emphasis on the steps required to perform bioinformatics analysis to answer biological questions. It is written for courses that have a practical, hands-on element and contains many exercises (for example, database searches, protein analysis, data interpretation) to

chapter Chapter 1|21 pages

Introduction to Bioinformatics and Sequence Analysis

chapter Chapter 2|24 pages

Introduction to Internet Resources

chapter Chapter 3|25 pages

Introduction to the BLAST Suite and BLASTN

chapter Chapter 4|26 pages

Protein BLAST: BLASTP

chapter Chapter 5|28 pages

Cross-Molecular Searches: BLASTX and TBLASTN

chapter Chapter 6|30 pages

Advanced Topics in BLAST

chapter Chapter 7|25 pages

Bioinformatics Tools for the Laboratory

chapter Chapter 8|32 pages

Protein Analysis

chapter Chapter 9|30 pages

Explorations of Short Nucleotide Sequences

chapter Chapter 10|25 pages

MicroRNAs and Pathway Analysis

chapter Chapter 11|28 pages

Multiple Sequence Alignments

chapter Chapter 12|29 pages

Browsing the Genome