Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics: Methods and Applications provides a thorough and detailed description of principles, methods, and applications of bioinformatics in different areas of life sciences. It presents a compendium of many important topics of current advanced research and basic principles/approaches easily applicable to diverse research settings. The content encompasses topics such as biological databases, sequence analysis, genome assembly, RNA sequence data analysis, drug design, and structural and functional analysis of proteins. In addition, it discusses computational approaches for vaccine design, systems biology and big data analysis, and machine learning in bioinformatics.It is a valuable source for bioinformaticians, computer biologists, and members of biomedical field who needs to learn bioinformatics approaches to apply to their research and lab activities. Covers basic and more advanced developments of bioinformatics with a diverse and interdisciplinary approach to fulfill the needs of readers from different backgrounds Explains in a practical way how to decode complex biological problems using computational approaches and resources Brings case studies, real-world examples and several protocols to guide the readers with a problem-solving approach