Introduction to bioinformatics

Abstract

Bioinformatics, the application of computers in biological sciences and especially analysis of biological sequence data, is becoming an essential tool in molecular biology as genome projects generate vast quantities of data. This text provides an introduction to the subject, focussing on two key areas, genojmics and protein sequence analysis. It provides an overview of primary, composite and secondary databases, and gives a brief introduction to the Internet and the World Wide Web.