Bioinformatics For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Bioinformatics For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Jean-Michel Claverie and Cedric Notredame 

2007 (436 pages)

ISBN:9780470089859

Leading you step by step through every bioinformatics task that can be done over the Internet, this guide shows you how to get the most out of your PC and the right Web tools so you’ll be searching databases and analyzing sequences like a pro.

Bioinformatics For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Introduction

Cheat Sheet

Part I - Getting Started in Bioinformatics

Chapter 1

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Finding Out What Bioinformatics Can Do for You

Chapter 2

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How Most People Use Bioinformatics

Part II - A Survival Guide to Bioinformatics

Chapter 3

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Using Nucleotide Sequence Databases

Chapter 4

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Using Protein and Specialized Sequence Databases

Chapter 5

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Working with a Single DNA Sequence

Chapter 6

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Working with a Single Protein Sequence

Part III - Becoming a Pro in Sequence Analysis

Chapter 7

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Similarity Searches on Sequence Databases

Chapter 8

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Comparing Two Sequences

Chapter 9

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Building a Multiple Sequence Alignment

Chapter 10

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Editing and Publishing Alignments

Part IV - Becoming a Specialist: Advanced Bioinformatics Techniques

Chapter 11

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Working with Protein 3-D Structures

Chapter 12

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Working with RNA

Chapter 13

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Building Phylogenetic Trees

Part V - The Part of Tens

Chapter 14

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The Ten (Okay, Twelve) Commandments for Using Servers

Chapter 15

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Some Useful Bioinformatics Resources