APPLIED BIOINFORMATICS: AN INTRODUCTION 1st Edition  (English, Paperback, SELZER)

• Easily understandable introduction in an overview style
• Practical examples with exercises and solutions
• At last, here is a baseline book for anyone who is confused by cryptic computer programs, algorithms and formulae, but wants to learn about applied bioinformatics.

Now, anyone who can operate a PC, standard software and the Internet can also learn to understand the biological basis of bioinformatics, of the existence as well as the source and availability of bioinformatics software, and how to apply these tools and interpret results with confidence.

This process is aided by chapters that introduce important aspects of bioinformatics, detailed bioinformatics exercises (including solutions), and to cap it all, a glossary of definitions and terminology relating to bioinformatics.

Table of Contents
Computers, operating systems and the Internet
The biological foundations of bioinformatics
Biological databases
Sequence comparisons and sequence-based database searches
The decoding of eukaryotic genomes
Protein structures and structure-based rational drug design
Systems biology – the functional analysis of genomes
Comparative genome analyses
Solutions to the Exercises
Glossary