1st Edition
Compact Handbook of Computational Biology
572 Pages
by
CRC Press
572 Pages
by
CRC Press
572 Pages
by
CRC Press
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The assimilation of computational methods into the life sciences has played an important role in advancing biological research. From sequencing genomes to discovering motifs in large collections of functionally equivalent sequences of nucleic acids and proteins, the value of powerful computational tools has become abundantly clear. The Compact Handbook of Computational Biology describes the... Read more
Foreword. Contributors. Introduction: Computational Biology in 14 Brief Paragraphs. Biomolecular Sequence Analysis. Introduction to Pragmatic Analysis of Nucleic Acid Sequences. Motifs in Sequences: Localization and Extraction. Protein Sequence Analysis and Prediction of Secondary Structural Features. Biopolymer Structure Calculation and Prediction. Discrete Models of Biopolymers. Protein Structure Folding and Prediction. DNA-Protein Interactions: Target Prediction. Genome Analysis and Evolution. Methods of Computational Genomics: An Overview. Computational Aspects of Comparative Genomics. Computational Methods for Studying the Evolution of the Mitochondrial Genome. Appendix 1: Computational Biology: Annotated Glossary of Terms. Appendix 2: A Dictionary of Programs for Sequence Analysis. Index.
Biography
Andrzej K. Konopka, M. James C. Crabbe
