Thomas Lengauer (ed.)

Bioinformatics - From Genomes to Therapies, 3 Vols.

The Building Blocks: Molecular Sequences and Structures; Getting at the Inner Workings: Molecular Interactions; The Holy Grail: Molecular Function
Ed. by Thomas Lengauer

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Once again, Thomas Lengauer has succeeded in creating a comprehensive and immensely useful bioinformatics resource that meets even the high standards of professionals in the pharmaceutical and medical sector.

By extending the classical application areas of bioinformatics to the most recent approaches in analyzing molecular networks and in predicting molecular function, this handbook serves as a first-stop resource for every bioinformatics user in the life sciences. With contributions by more than 40 of the world's leading bioinformaticians, it is unrivalled in terms of scientific authority and accuracy.

The best single information source available, written by professionals for professionals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley-VCH
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 1732
• Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 178mm x 105mm
• Gewicht: 3816g
• ISBN-13: 9783527312788
• ISBN-10: 3527312781
• Artikelnr.: 20836476

Autorenporträt

Thomas Lengauer (born 1952) studied Mathematics and Informatics at Berlin and Stanford. After a brief stay at the Bell Laboratories, he held various academic positions at the universities of Saarbruecken, Paderborn, and Bonn. From 1992 to 2001, he headed the Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing at the GBM in Sankt Augustin (Germany). Since 2001, he is director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics in Saarbruecken (Germany).
Professor Lengauer has recently been awarded the Konrad-Zuse-Medal, the highest honor of the German Informatics Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Volume I MOLECULAR SEQUENCES AND STRUCTURES

Part I Introduction

Part II Sequencing Genomes

Part III Sequence Analysis

Part IV Molecular Structure Prediction

Volume II MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS

Part V Analysis of molecular interactions

Part VI Molecular Networks

Part VII Analysis of Expression Data

Volume III MOLECULAR FUNCTION

Part VIII Protein Function Prediction

Part IX Comparing genomes

Part X Basic Bioinformatics Technologies

Part XI Future Trends

Appendix: Glossary of algorithmic terms in bioinformatics

Rezensionen

"This treatise on bioinformatics is an excellent reference set to use as additional reading in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses"
-- ChemMedChem (Oct. 2007)