Main description:

All About Bioinformatics: From Beginner to Expert provides readers with an overview of the fundamentals and advances in the field of bioinformatics, as well as future directions. Each chapter is didactically organized and includes an introduction, applications, tools and future directions. The book covers both traditional topics such as biological databases, algorithms, genetic variations, static methods, and structural bioinformatics, as well as contemporary advanced topics such as high throughput technologies, drug informatics, system and network biology, and machine learning.

This is a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students who are interested in learning more about bioinformatics to apply tactics in their research work.

Contents:

Section 1: Introduction to Bioinformatics
1. What is Bioinformatics? History, introduction and overview
2. Introduction to Biological Databases:
3. Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics
4. Algorithms in computational biology
5. Genetic variations
6. Structural Bioinformatics

Section 2: Advances in Bioinformatics
7. High Throughput Technology
8. Drug Informatics
9. A machine learning approach to bioinformatics
10. Systems and Network Biology
11. Bioinformatics workflow management systems
12 . Python Basics for Data Handling