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All About Bioinformatics: From Beginner to Expert provides readers with an overview of the fundamentals and advances in the _x001F_field of bioinformatics, as well as some future directions. Each chapter is didactically organized and includes introduction, applications, tools, and future directions to cover the topics thoroughly. The book covers both traditional topics such as biological databases, algorithms, genetic variations, static methods, and structural bioinformatics, as well as contemporary advanced topics such as high-throughput technologies, drug informatics, system and network biology, and machine learning. It is a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students who are interested to learn more about bioinformatics to apply in their research work.
List of contents
1. What is bioinformatics? 2. Introduction to biological databases 3. Statistical methods in bioinformatics 4. Algorithms in computational biology 5. Genetic variations 6. Structural bioinformatics 7. High throughput technology 8. Drug informatics 9. A machine learning approach to bioinformatics 10. Systems and network biology 11. Bioinformatics workflow management systems 12. Data handling using Python
About the author
Dr. Yasha Hasija is currently working as Professor, Department of Biotechnology, and Associate Dean (Alumni A_x001D_ffairs) at Delhi
Technological University. She has published more than 100 research articles and review papers in national and international
journals and conferences and 19 book chapters. She has served as Topic Editor in Frontiers in Physiology, Computational Physiology, and Medicine, 2022, and is also on the Editorial Board of numerous international journals. She has made noteworthy
contributions in the area of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics as an author and editor of two notable books.
Dr. Hasija’s work has earned recognition and received several prestigious awards, including the Govt. of India–Department
of Science and Technology Award for attending the meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students in Lindau, Germany, in 2002;
and Human Gene Nomenclature Award at the Human Genome Meeting 2010 held at Montpellier, France. She has also been
awarded Research Excellence Awards at DTU for 5 consecutive years (2018–2022). Prof. Hasija is the Project Investigator of
several sponsored research projects from Govt. of India departments including DST, CSIR, and DBT. She has delivered more
than 20 invited talks at several prestigious universities and institutions. She is an Active Researcher supervising BTech, MTech,
MSc, and PhD students at Delhi Technological University. Her broad areas of research include genome informatics, integration
of genome-scale data for systems biology, and machine learning applications in healthcare.
