Exploring Bioinformatics: A Project-based Approach

ChapterChapter 1 Bioinformatics and Genomic Data: Investigating a Complex Genetic Disease
ChapterChapter 2 Computational Manipulation of DNA: Genetic Screening for Disease Alleles
ChapterChapter 3 Sequence Alignment: Investigating an Influenza Outbreak
ChapterChapter 4 Database Searching and Multiple Alignment: Investigating Antibiotic Resistance
ChapterChapter 5 Substitution Matrices and Protein Alignments: Virulence Factors in E. coli
ChapterChapter 6 Distance Measurement in Molecular Phylogenetics: Evolution of Mammals
ChapterChapter 7 Tree Building in Molecular Phylogenetics: The Three Domains of Life
ChapterChapter 8 DNA Sequencing: Identification of Novel Viral Pathogens
ChapterChapter 9 Sequence-Based Gene Prediction: Annotation of a Resistance Plasmid
ChapterChapter 10 Advanced Gene Prediction: Identification of an Influenza Resistance Gene
ChapterChapter 11 Protein Structure Prediction and Analysis: Rational Drug Design
ChapterChapter 12 Nucleic Acid Structure Prediction: PCR and RNAi
AppendixAppendix Introduction to Programming