Introduction to Bioinformatics: A Theoretical and Practical Approach

The first section of this book describes basic cellular structure and the decoding of the genome. Second section covers regulation of genomes and molecular genetic basis of disease as a consequence of genetic replication. Third section demystifies the Unix Operating System and gives examples of command line sequence analyses. Fourth section provides information on management and analysis of DNA sequencing projects, along with a review of how DNA can be modeled as a statistical series of patterns. It follows with a discussion of the various genome databases. Included is a CD-ROM containing valuable software programs including BioDiscovery, ClustalX, Ensembl, MicroAnalyser, Staden Sequence Analysis Package, Tree View and others.