Academic Press Bioinformatics: Methods and Applications

Bioinformatics: Methods and Applications provides a thorough and detailed description of principles, methods, and applications of bioinformatics in different areas of life sciences. It presents a compendium of many important topics of current advanced research and basic principles/approaches easily applicable to diverse research settings. The content encompasses topics such as biological databases, sequence analysis, genome assembly, RNA sequence data analysis, drug design, and structural and functional analysis of proteins. In addition, it discusses computational approaches for vaccine design, systems biology and big data analysis, and machine learning in bioinformatics. It is a valuable source for bioinformaticians, computer biologists, and members of biomedical field who needs to learn bioinformatics approaches to apply to their research and lab activities. Review Presents practical and easily applicable information on bioinformatics to improve research outcome in diverse biomedical fields From the Back Cover <i>Bioinformatics: Methods and Applications</i> provides a thorough and detailed description of principles, methods, and applications of bioinformatics in different areas of life sciences. It presents a compendium of many important topics of current advanced research and basic principles/approaches easily applicable to diverse research settings. The content encompasses topics such as biological databases, sequence analysis, genome assembly, RNA sequence data analysis, drug design, and structural and functional analysis of proteins. In addition, it discusses computational approaches for vaccine design, systems biology and big data analysis, and machine learning in bioinformatics.<br><br>It is a valuable source for bioinformaticians, computer biologists, and members of biomedical field who needs to learn bioinformatics approaches to apply to their research and lab activities. About the Author He received BSc, and MSc from University of Allahabad and MTech (Bioinformatics) at Indian Institute of Information Technology. He is PhD in Biotechnology from Gautam Buddha University. He has been actively involved in teaching and research since 2009, is teaching Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Proteomics and Genomics, and other courses to BSc and MSc Biotechnology students and his areas of research are molecular modeling, chemo-informatics, and drug designing. He authored numerous research articles and book chapters in the fields of computational biology, medicinal research, molecular modeling, drug design, and systems biology. He published two edited books: "Frontiers in Protein Structure, Function, and Dynamics" and "Computer-Aided Drug Design". He is a member of various national and international academic bodies and is a reviewer for several international journals. Rajesh Kumar Pathak completed his BSc from Barkatullah University, Bhopal, MSc from Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, and PhD from Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun, India. He has authored several articles in international journals including, Scientific Reports, Computational Biology and Chemistry, OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, Frontiers in Plant Science, 3 Biotech, Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, etc. His research interests lie in the areas of the genome and transcriptome assembly and annotation, microarray data analysis, pathway modeling, and network analysis, molecular docking, virtual screening, and molecular dynamics simulation. He has worked as a Teaching Personnel at G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, India, and Teaching Assistant at the School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India.