Moorhouse / Barry Bioinformatics Biocomputing and Perl

An Introduction to Bioinformatics Computing Skills and Practice
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-470-02645-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 506 Seiten, E-Book

Bioinformatics, Biocomputing and Perl presents a modernintroduction to bioinformatics computing skills and practice.Structuring its presentation around four main areas of study, thisbook covers the skills vital to the day-to-day activities oftoday's bioinformatician. Each chapter contains a series ofmaxims designed to highlight key points and there are exercises tosupplement and cement the introduced material.
Working with Perl presents an extended tutorialintroduction to programming through Perl, the premier programmingtechnology of the bioinformatics community. Even though no previousprogramming experience is assumed, completing the tutorial equipsthe reader with the ability to produce powerful custom programswith ease.
Working with Data applies the programming skills acquiredto processing a variety of bioinformatics data. In addition toadvice on working with important data stores such as the ProteinDataBank, SWISS-PROT, EMBL and the GenBank, considerable discussionis devoted to using bioinformatics data to populate relationaldatabase systems. The popular MySQL database is used in allexamples.
Working with the Web presents a discussion of theWeb-based technologies that allow the bioinformatics researcher topublish both data and applications on the Internet.
Working with Applications shifts gear from creatingcustom programs to using them. The tools described includeClustal-W, EMBOSS, STRIDE, BLAST and Xmgrace. An introduction tothe important Bioperl Project concludes this chapter and rounds offthe book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moorhouse, Michael

Barry, Paul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
1. Setting the Biological Scene.
2. Setting the Technological Scene.
I: WORKING WITH PERL.
3. The Basics.
4. Places to Put Things.
5. Getting Organised.
6. About Files.
7. Patterns, Patterns and More Patterns.
8. Perl Grabbag.
II: WORKING WITH DATA.
9. Downloading Datasets.
10. The Protein Databank.
11. Non-redundant Datasets.
12. Databases.
13. Databases and Perl.
III: WORKING WITH THE WEB.
14. The Sequence Retrieval System.
15. Web Technologies.
16. Web Automation.
IV: WORKING WITH APPLICATIONS.
17. Tools and Datasets.
18. Applications.
19. Data Visualisation.
20. Introducing Bioperl.
Appendix: A--F.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Moorhouse works as a Bioinformatics Researcher forErasmus MC in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He holds a B.Sc. fromUMIST and an M.Sc. from The University of Manchester. Michaelrecently completed a Ph.D. from The University of Birmingham in theUK. He has been involved in numerous bioinformatics coursesthroughout the UK and Netherlands. This is Michael's firstbook.
Paul Barry works as a Lecturer in Computing Science atThe Institute of Technology, Carlow in Ireland. He holds a B.Sc.from The University of Ulster in Jordanstown, Northern Ireland andrecently completed an M.Sc. from The Institute of Technology, Sligoin Ireland. He is the author of Programming the Network withPerl (Wiley, 2002).