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Short introduction to the major principles of bioinformatics for newcomers to the field from many biology disciplines

Table of Contents

1. Fundamentals of Genes and Genomes 2. Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution3. Genomic Technologies4. The Beginning of Bioinformatics 5. Data, Databases, Data Format, Database Search, Data Retrieval Systems and Genome Browsers6. Sequence Alignment and Similarity Searching in Genomic Databases: Blast and Fasta7. Additional Analyses Involving Nucleic Acid Sequences8. Additional Analyses Involving Protein Sequences9. Phylogenetic Analysis

About the Author

Dr. Supratim Choudhuri is a toxicologist at the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Choudhuri has extensively published in the fields of molecular toxicology, metabolism, genomics, and epigenetics. He has previously edited a book, titled Genomics: Fundamentals and Applications with a colleague Dr. David B. Carlson.