Overview

This text presents biological sequence analysis using an interdisciplinary approach that integrates biological, mathematical and computational concepts. These concepts are presented so that computer scientists and biomedical scientists can obtain the necessary background for developing better algorithms and applying parallel computational methods. The book aims to enable both groups to develop the depth of knowledge needed to work in this interdisciplinary field. The author focuses on high performance computational approaches that are used to perform computationally intensive biological sequence analysis tasks: pairwise sequence comparison, multiple sequence alignment, and sequence similarity searching in large databases. These computational methods are becoming increasingly important to the molecular biology community, allowing researchers to explore the increasingly large amounts of sequence data generated by the Human Genome Project and other related biological projects. The approaches presented by the authors are state-of-the-art and show how to reduce analysis times significantly, sometimes from days to minutes. This book is intended for biomedical science students and researchers who are interested in applying sequence analyses to their studies, and for computational science students and researchers who are interested in applying new computational approaches to biological sequence analyses.

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Author:   Tieng K. Yap ,  Ophir Frieder ,  Robert L. Martino
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1996 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.130kg
ISBN:  

9780792397243

ISBN 10:   079239724
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   30 April 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 1.1 The Human Genome Project.- 1.2 Informatics.- 1.3 Summary.- 2 Biological Background.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Types of biological sequences.- 2.3 DNA extraction and amplification.- 2.4 Sequencing technology.- 2.5 Sequence databases.- 2.6 Summary.- 3 Sequence Analysis Algorithms.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Substitution score matrices.- 3.3 Pairwise sequence alignment.- 3.4 Multiple sequence alignment.- 3.5 Sequence similarity searching.- 3.6 Summary.- 4 High Performance Computing Architectures and Techniques.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Parallelism: what and why?.- 4.3 Types of computation.- 4.4 Classification schemes.- 4.5 Metrics.- 4.6 Performance related factors.- 4.7 Summary.- 5 Multiprocessor Sequence Alignment.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Pairwise sequence alignment.- 5.3 Multiple sequence alignment.- 5.4 Summary.- 6 Multiprocessor Sequence Similarity Searching.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Fine-grain approach.- 6.3 Coarse-grain approach.- 6.4 Summary.- 7 Biological Sequence Resources on the Internet.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Accessing tools.- 7.3 Search engines.- 7.4 Summary.- 8 Looking to the Future.- References.

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