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Elsevier Bioinformatics for Everyone by Mohammad Yaseen Sofi, Afshana Shafi, Khalid Z. Masoodi
Bioinformatics for Everyone provides a brief overview on currently used technologies in the field of bioinformatics-interpreted as the application of information science to biology- including various online and offline bioinformatics tools and softwares. The book presents valuable knowledge in a simplified way to help students and researchers easily apply bioinformatics tools and approaches to their research and lab routines. Several protocols and case studies that can be reproduced by readers to suit their needs are also included. Table of Contents : 1. Prologue to bioinformatics 2. Advances in DNA sequencing 3. Bioinformatics databases and tools 4. Nucleic acid sequence databases 5. Pairwise sequence alignment 6. Multiple sequence alignment 7. Multiple sequence alignment tools - software and resources 8. CLUSTALW software 9. Plant genomic data and resources at NCBI 10. NCBI BLAST 11. BLAST: protocols 12. ExPASy portal 13. Primer designing tools 14. Primer designing for cloning 15. Restriction analysis tools 16. Restriction analysis using NEBcutter 17. KEGG database 18. Database for annotation, visualisation and integrated discovery 19. Genome analysis browsers 20. Next-generation alignment tools 21. Molecular marker storage databases and data visualisation 22. Introduction to computer-aided drug design 23. BioEdit in bioinformatics