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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Biology
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Front Matter
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Applications
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
An Introduction to Bioinformatics is intended to be a complete study companion for the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate student. It is self-contained in the sense that whatever the starting point may be, the reader will gain insight into bioinformatics. Underlying the work is the belief that bioinformatics is a kind of metaphoric lens through which the entire field of biology can be brought into focus, admittedly as yet imperfect, and understood in a unified way. Reflecting the highly incomplete present state of the field, emphasis is placed on the underlying fundamentals and acquisitions of a broad and comprehensive grasp of the field as a whole.
Bioinformatics is interpreted as the application of information science to biology, in which it plays a fundamental and all-pervasive role. This interpretation enables a remarkably unified view of the entire field of biology to be taken and hence offers an excellent entry point into the life sciences for those for whom biology is unfamiliar.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bioinformatics: An Introduction
Authors: Jeremy J. Ramsden
Series Title: Computational Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2950-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-015-7096-1Published: 04 August 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2950-9Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1568-2684
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2432
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 244
Topics: Life Sciences, general, Evolutionary Biology, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Systems Theory, Control, Electrical Engineering