Computational Genomics And Structural Bioinformatics In Microbial Science

Computational Genomics and structural Bioinformatics in Microbial Science

Computational Genomics and Structural Bioinformatics in Microbial Science

Computational Genomics and Structural Bioinformatics in Microbial Science: Microbial Genomics (Volume 2) covers different aspects of microbial genomics, metagenomics, and functional studies of microbes through informative illustrations of current trends in computational tools and bioinformatics approach in environmental microbiology and clinical diagnosis. This book aims to provide readers with an overview of the microbial genome, computational genomics, and structural bioinformatics in microbial science, as well as the most recent developments in these fields. This book covers a range of topics, including the challenges and opportunities of computational epigenomics, bioinformatics tools for assessing metagenomic data, as well as computed comparative genomics and computational phenotyping of microorganisms relevant to agriculture. Microbial Genomics: Host Adaptation, virulence, and Evolution is a valuable resource for faculty members, researchers, and undergraduate and postgraduate students at universities, medical research labs, that are interested in microbial science specifically related to the microbial genome, computing genomics, and bioinformatics. - Provides informative illustrations of current trends in computational tools and bioinformatics approach - Presents bioinformatics of next generation sequencing in clinical microbiology diagnosis - Discusses structural bioinformatics and its applications

Computing for Comparative Microbial Genomics

Overview and Goals This book describes how to visualize and compare bacterial genomes. Sequencing technologies are becoming so inexpensive that soon going for a cup of coffee will be more expensive than sequencing a bacterial genome. Thus, there is a very real and pressing need for high-throughput computational methods to compare hundreds and thousands of bacterial genomes. It is a long road from molecular biology to systems biology, and in a sense this text can be thought of as a path bridging these ? elds. The goal of this book is to p- vide a coherent set of tools and a methodological framework for starting with raw DNA sequences and producing fully annotated genome sequences, and then using these to build up and test models about groups of interacting organisms within an environment or ecological niche. Organization and Features The text is divided into four main parts: Introduction, Comparative Genomics, Transcriptomics and Proteomics, and ? nally Microbial Communities. The ? rst ? ve chapters are introductions of various sorts. Each of these chapters represents an introduction to a speci? c scienti? c ? eld, to bring all readers up to the same basic level before proceeding on to the methods of comparing genomes. First, a brief overview of molecular biology and of the concept of sequences as biological inf- mation are given.