Essential bioinformatics / Jin Xiong.

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

xi, 339 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to biological databases -- Pairwise sequence alignment -- Database similarity searching -- Multiple sequence alignment -- Profiles and hidden Markov models -- Protein motifs and domain prediction -- Gene prediction -- Promoter and regulatory element prediction -- Phylogenetics basics -- Phylogenetic tree construction methods and programs -- Protein structure basics -- Protein structure visualization, comparision, and classification -- Protein secondary structure prediction -- Protein tertiary structure prediction -- RNA structure prediction -- Genome mapping, assembly, and comparison -- Functional genomics -- Proteomics.