Bioinformatics For Dummies

Search databases and analyze sequences like a pro

Get the most out of your PC and the Web with the right tools

Explore the human genome and analyze DNA—without leaving your desktop! All it takes is the basics of molecular biology and the wealth of information in this friendly guide. You'll discover the online tools and useful tips you need to ask the right questions, analyze sequences, and compare results. It's a plain-English introduction to the field!

Discover how to

Do biological research online
Use gene-centric databases
Visualize proteins in 3-D
Interpret and analyze sequences
Produce and publish results

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Title of ebook: Bioinformatics For Dummies
ISBN: 9780470121351
parent-ISBN: 9780470089859
Publisher: For Dummies
Internet download file size: 10342 kb
Pages: 436
Published: 01-2007
Released online for download: 01-06-2007
Author of eBook: Claverie PhD, Jean-Michel
Author of eBook: Notredame PhD, Cedric

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Bioinformatics For Dummies

Chapter One

Finding Out What Bioinformatics Can Do for You

In This Chapter

* Defining bioinformatics

* Understanding the links between modern biology, genomics, and bioinformatics

* Determining which biological questions bioinformatics can help you answer quickly

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. - Mike Adam

It looks like biologists are colonizing the dictionary with all these bio-words: we have bio-chemistry, bio-metrics, bio-physics, bio-technology, bio-hazards, and even bio-terrorism. Now what's up with the new entry in the bio-sweepstakes, bio-informatics?

What Is Bioinformatics?

In today's world, computers are as likely to be used by biologists as by any other highly trained professionals - bankers or flight controllers, for example. Many of ... read full excerpt from Bioinformatics For Dummies ebook

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