Bioinformatics for dummies /

Claverie, Jean-Michel.

Bioinformatics for dummies / by Jean-Michel Claverie and Cedric Notredame. - 2nd ed. - Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley Pub., c2007. - xviii, 436 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - For dummies .

Previous ed.: 2003. Includes index.

Introduction -- PART I: GETTING STARTED IN BIOINFORMATICS: Finding out what bioinformatics can do for you -- How most people use bioinformatics -- PART II: A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO BIOINFORMATICS: Using nucleotide sequence databases -- Using protein and specialized sequence databases -- Working with a single DNA sequence -- Working with a single protein sequence -- PART III: BECOMING A PRO IN SEQUENCE ANALYSIS: Similarity searches on sequence databases -- Comparing two sequences -- Building a multiple sequence alignment -- Editing and publishing alignments -- PART IV: BECOMING A SPECIALIST: ADVANCED BIOINFORMATICS TECHNIQUES: Working with protein 3-D structures -- Working with RNA -- Building phytogenetic trees -- PART V: THE PART OF TENS: The ten (okay, twelve) commandments for using servers -- Some useful bioinformatics resources.



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Bioinformatics.
Computational Biology.
Bio-informatique.
Bio-informatica.

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