Books:Introduction to Bioinformatics

Introduction to Bioinformatics by Arthur M. Lesk: 475 Pages

This book is a great book for beginners in this field "Bioinformatics", if you read it you'll have a complete image about Bioinformatics field.

Book's content:

The book contains 7 chapters including:

1- Introduction: in the introduction the writer provides an initial (Biological and Computer science's) informations to understand Bioinformatics including (Bioinformatics information, World Wide Web, computer science, biological nomenclature, programming, Proteomics, Genomics....etc).

2- Genome organisation and evolution: Genomes, Proteomes, Differences between Eukarya and Prokaryotes Genomes and Proteomes...etc

3- Scientific publications and archives: media, content and access: DataBases, softwares, programming languages...etc

4- Archives and information retrieval: Different types of Databases including Protein sequences Databases, Nucleic acid sequences Databases, analysis softwares...etc

5- Alignments and phylogenetic trees: sequences alignment methods, constructing Phylogenetic trees, softwares...etc

6- Structural Bioinformatics and drug discovery: Protein folding methods, Prediction of protein function, Drug discovery and development...etc.

7- Proteomics and system biology: DNA Microarrays, Protein interaction networks, metabolic pathways, exercices...etc