ISBN: 1-56592-664-1

Author(s): Cynthia Gibas, Per Jambeck

446 pages; April 2001; O'Reilly

TOC:

I. Introduction
1. Biology in the Computer Age
2. Computational Approaches to Biological Questions

   II. The Bioinformatics Workstation

3. Setting Up Your Workstation
4. Files and Directories in Unix
5. Working on a Unix System

   III. Tools for Bioinformatics

6. Biological Research on the Web
7. Sequence Analysis, Pairwise Alignment, and Database Searching
8. Multiple Sequence Alignments, Trees, and Profiles
9. Visualizing Protein Structures and Computing Structural Properties
10. Predicting Protein Structure and Function from Sequence
11. Tools for Genomics and Proteomics

    IV. Databases and Visualization

12. Automating Data Analysis with Perl
13. Building Biological Databases
14. Visualization and Data Mining
    
    Bibliography
    Index