Overview
Gives practical recipes for using protein-related bioinformatics tools
Demonstrates for wet labs many of the tools freely available
Fits well on the shelf of any experimental lab
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (3 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book describes more than 60 web-accessible computational tools for protein analysis and is totally practical, with detailed explanations on how to use these tools and interpret their results and minimal mentions to their theoretical basis (only when that is required for making a better use of them). It covers a wide range of tools for dealing with different aspects of proteins, from their sequences, to their three-dimensional structures, and the biological networks they are immersed in. The selection of tools is based on the experience of the authors that lead a protein bioinformatics facility in a large research centre, with the additional constraint that the tools should be accessible through standard web browsers without requiring the local installation of specific software, command-line tools, etc.
The web tools covered include those aimed to retrieve protein information, look for similar proteins, generate pair-wise and multiple sequence alignments of protein sequences, work with protein domains and motifs, study the phylogeny of a family of proteins, retrieve, manipulate and visualize protein three-dimensional structures, predict protein structural features as well as whole three-dimensional structures, extract biological information from protein structures, summarize large protein sets, study protein interaction and metabolic networks, etc.
The book is associated to a dynamic web site that will reflect changes in the web addresses of the tools, updates of these, etc. It also contains QR codes that can be scanned with any device to direct its browser to the tool web site.
This monograph will be most valuable for researchers in experimental labs without specific knowledge on bioinformatics or computing.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Practical Protein Bioinformatics
Authors: Florencio Pazos, Mónica Chagoyen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12727-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-12726-2Published: 11 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38184-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-12727-9Published: 28 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 106
Number of Illustrations: 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: Protein Science, Biomedicine general, Organic Chemistry