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Tables of Contents for Bioinformatics Bacics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
Introduction to Bioinformatics
1
32
Biology and Bioinformatics
1
8
The Nature of Publicly Funded Research
3
3
Genomics and Proteomics
6
1
Metabolic Databases
6
1
Public and Proprietary Bioinformatics
7
2
Computers in Biology and Medicine
9
8
Computer Algorithms
10
1
Different Types of Computers for Different Tasks
11
1
Supercomputers
12
1
Limitations of Computational Tools: Paradoxical Promise of the Internet
13
2
The Need for Computational Tools
15
1
New Approaches to Scientific Research with Computers
16
1
Biological Macromolecules
17
16
Proteins
17
3
Protein Structure
20
2
Protein Folding
22
3
Protein Functions
25
2
DNA and RNA Structure
27
1
Nucleic Acid Structure and Function
27
2
Genetic Code
29
2
Genes and Evolution
31
2
Databases and Search Tools
33
50
Computational Tools and Databases
33
33
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
34
10
European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)
44
10
GenomeNet --- Japanese Bioinformatics Servers
54
12
Database Mining Tools
66
17
Sequence Similarity Search Tools: BLAST
66
14
Pattern Recognition Tools and Databases
80
3
Genome Analysis
83
46
DNA Cloning and PCR
83
7
DNA Cloning
84
1
Transcriptional Profiling
85
1
Positional Cloning
86
1
Polymerase Chain Reaction: PCR
87
1
Sequencing Technologies Under Development
88
1
Monitoring Sequencing Progress
89
1
Computational Tools for DNA Sequence Analysis
90
17
Database Submissions
91
5
Data Retrieval
96
3
Sequence Alignment
99
2
What a Sequence Reveals About the Biological Function of a Gene
101
1
How to Identify a Gene: ORFs and URFs
102
2
A Word About Redundancy
104
1
Better Search Engines for Better Computers?
104
3
Genome Analysis
107
13
Genome Organization
107
5
Mapping the Genome
112
6
Human Genome Mapping Progress
118
2
Functional Genomics
120
9
Unidentified Reading Frames: URFs
123
1
Cluster of Orthologous Groups: COGs
124
5
Proteome Analysis
129
14
Proteomics
129
8
2-D Page at Expasy
134
2
Yeast Proteome Database
136
1
Metabolic Reconstruction
137
6
KEGG: Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
137
1
The Functional Reconstruction Model
138
1
E. coli Metabolic Database: EcoCyc
139
1
Where Should We Be in the Future?
140
3
The Computer Revolution in Neurobiology
143
26
Human Brain Project
143
11
The Influence of Computers in Science
144
1
Computers in Neurobiology and the Mapping of the Human Brain
145
4
From Molecules to Neurodegenerative Diseases
149
5
Computer Simulations and Visualization of Molecular Structures
154
5
3-D Visualization
154
3
The Virtual Doctor: (Virtual and Remote Surgery)
157
2
Predictive Biology
159
10
Protein Structure Prediction
160
6
Structure Prediction Software
166
3
Glossary
169
4
Index
173