Essays in bioinformatics / edited by David S. Moss, Sibila Jelaska and Sandor Pongor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moss, D. S. (David S.)

Jelaska, Sibila.

Pongor, Sándor.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Public Diplomacy Division.

Series:

NATO science series. Life and behavioural sciences ; Series I, v. 368.

NATO science series. Series I, Life and behavioural sciences ; v. 368

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioinformatics--Congresses.

Bioinformatics.

Biology--Data processing--Congresses.

Biology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Oxford : IOS Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Consists of chapters summarizing the fundamental concepts of bioinformatics, based on the topics presented at a course held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in 2003. The second part of this book contains application papers submitted by the students after the course.

Contents:

Title page; Foreword; Editors' Note; Contents; Biology and Informatics; Concepts of Similarity in Bioinformatics; Comparison of Sequences, Protein 3D Structures and Genomes; GenBank: The NCBI Nucleotide Sequence Database; Swiss-Prot: Juggling Between Evolution and Stability; EMBOSS - A Sequence Analysis Package; Prediction and Visualization of DNA Structural Properties from Sequence; Protein Structure and Its Classification; Macromolecular Structure Databases; Protein Secondary Structure Prediction: Comparison of Ten Common Prediction Algorithms Using a Neural Network

Predicting Protein Function and Structure Using Bioinformatics Protocols: A Case Study of the SAND Protein FamilyIndustrial Applications of Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics; Appendix. Student Papers; Beta-Spectrins and Their Homologues - Comparative Studies and Consensus Sequence Construction; Bioinformatics - Computational Support for Genome Analysis; Prediction of Signal Peptides and Signal Anchors of Cytochrome c Nitrite Reductase from Desulfovibrio desulfuricans ATCC 27774 Using Bioinformatic Tools; Graph Representations of Oxidative Folding Pathways

The Application of Bioinformatics Techniques in Genetic Identification and Profiling of Rare Grape Varieties Indigenous to CroatiaPapaya (Carica papaya) Fruit Ripening I - Pectinmethylesterase (PME) cDNA Cloning and Expression During Fruit Development and Ripening; Organogenic Nodule Formation in Hop (Humulus lupulus var. Nugget); Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in Xenobiotic and Estrogen Metabolizing Genes and Breast Cancer Susceptibilty in Turkish Population; Bioinformatics Approaches in Molecular Systematics: The Case of Silene Section Siphonomorpha Otth (Caryophyllaceae)

Volume ContributorsCourse Participants; Author Index

Notes:

Contains papers from the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Introduction to Bioinformatics, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2003.

ISBN:

1-280-50491-9

9786610504916

1-4294-0202-4

1-60750-126-0

600-00-0420-6

1-60129-107-8

OCLC:

299570426