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Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to NCBI Databases and Sequence Alignments provides the basics of bioinformatics and in-depth coverage of NCBI databases, sequence alignment, and NCBI Sequence Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST).
List of contents
ContentsPreface, vii
Acknowledgments, ix
Chapter 1 | The Origin of Genomic Information 1
Chapter 2 | The Sources of Genomic Data 39
Chapter 3 | The NCBI Entrez Databases 77
Chapter 4 | NCBI Entrez E- Utilities and Applications 265
Chapter 5 | The Entrez Direct 289
Chapter 6 | R and Python Packages for the NCBI E- Utilities 343
Chapter 7 | Pairwise Sequence Alignment 383
Chapter 8 | Basic Local Alignment Search Tool 407
INDEX, 453
About the author
Hamid D. Ismail earned his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in computational science from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA, and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) and Applied Diploma in Statistics and Programming from the University of Khartoum, Sudan. He has worked as an adjunct professor, bioinformatics specialist, bioinformatics tool developer, senior scientist, statistician, and database consultant with several institutions. He is currently a Ph.D. Research Associate at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Dr. Ismail is a published author in bioinformatics, statistics, machine learning, and bio-science, and hehas developed a number of bioinformatics desktop and web-based applications. He is also a reviewer for a number of academic journals.
