ISBN:
0-470-84839-1
Genomics and bioinformatics
play an increasingly important and transformative role in medicine, society
and agriculture. The mapping of the human genome has revealed 35,000 or
so genes which might code for more than one protein, resulting in 100,000
proteins for the humans alone. Since proteins are attractive targets for
developing drugs, efforts are now underway to map sequences and assign
functions to many novel proteins. This book takes the novel approach to
cover both the sequence and structure analysis of proteins in one volume
and from an algorithmic perspective.
Key features of the book include:
- Provides a comprehensive
introduction to the analysis of protein sequence and structure analysis.
- Takes an algorithmic
approach, relying on computational methods rather than theoretical.
- Provides an integrated
presentation of theory, examples, exercises and applications.
- Includes coverage
of both protein structure, and sequence, analysis.
- Accessible enough
for biologists, yet rigorous enough for computer scientists and mathematicians.
- Supported by a Web site featuring exercises, solutions, images, and computer programs.
Hardcover: 368 pages;
December 2003; John Wiley & Sons