Your Passport to a Career in Bioinformatics
Your Passport to a Career in Bioinformatics

Author: Prashanth N. Suravajhala

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-02-16

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 9811595445

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This book which is the second edition of Your Passport to a Career in Bioinformatics, is intended for students who plan to work in bioinformatics. In addition to addressing the opportunities and challenges faced by today’s bioinformatics community, it demonstrates how bioinformatics is currently transitioning from research to vocation and avocation. Further, it extols the virtues of in silico for bioinformatics predictions, as it helps wet-lab biologists reduce the time needed for experiments. In turn, the book addresses career prospects and the Ten Commandments for becoming a bioinformatics professional; bioinformatics for developing countries; bioinformatics for schools; bioinformatics for markets; and the knowns and unknowns of bioinformatics. It also explores how bioinformatics interacts with various fields in terms of three Cs: consistency, continuity, and credibility.

Your Passport to a Career in Bioinformatics
Your Passport to a Career in Bioinformatics

Author: Prashanth N Suravajhala

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-08-04

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 8132211634

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The book is a ready reckoner aimed at the student community aspiring to take up a career in bioinformatics. The book firstly provides a perspective on the domain and addresses the challenges faced by community namely the attempts to understand data produced by genome sequencing projects. It then brings to light High Performance Computing (HPC) as it helps in interpreting and analyzing genome sequences. The book also dwells on how interactions in a systems (organism), the components that interact with each other and the outcome of such interactions. It then calls for a consensus on the tools like rapid and inexpensive DNA sequencing technologies, HAPMAP projects, Dollar One Genome (DOG), to enable a reader understand how bioinformatics transits from research, to vocation and avocation. Further it extols the virtues of in silico for bioinformatical predictions as it helps wet-lab biologists reduce time for experiments. Also it describes the intricacies of bioinformatics and its usefulness to wet-based biologists and other cross-disciplinarians. The book lists out 10 reasons for taking up bioinformatics as a career, and includes insights from global experts on the domain. It also makes a case for a mediocre student getting into bioinformatics with discipline, determination, dynamism and diligence. The book further describes BioinformaTICKS a tool for emerging as a winner in bioinformatics.

Proceedings of Seventh International Congress on Information and Communication Technology
Proceedings of Seventh International Congress on Information and Communication Technology

Author: Xin-She Yang

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-08-02

Total Pages: 910

ISBN-13: 9811916071

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This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at the Seventh International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, held at Brunel University, London, on February 21–24, 2022. It discusses emerging topics pertaining to information and communication technology (ICT) for managerial applications, e-governance, e-agriculture, e-education and computing technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT) and e-mining. Written by respected experts and researchers working on ICT, the book offers a valuable asset for young researchers involved in advanced studies. The work is presented in four volumes.

Mastering Python for Bioinformatics
Mastering Python for Bioinformatics

Author: Ken Youens-Clark

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2021-05-05

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 1098100859

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Life scientists today urgently need training in bioinformatics skills. Too many bioinformatics programs are poorly written and barely maintained--usually by students and researchers who've never learned basic programming skills. This practical guide shows postdoc bioinformatics professionals and students how to exploit the best parts of Python to solve problems in biology while creating documented, tested, reproducible software. Ken Youens-Clark, author of Tiny Python Projects (Manning), demonstrates not only how to write effective Python code but also how to use tests to write and refactor scientific programs. You'll learn the latest Python features and toolsâ??including linters, formatters, type checkers, and testsâ??to create documented and tested programs. You'll also tackle 14 challenges in Rosalind, a problem-solving platform for learning bioinformatics and programming. Create command-line Python programs to document and validate parameters Write tests to verify refactor programs and confirm they're correct Address bioinformatics ideas using Python data structures and modules such as Biopython Create reproducible shortcuts and workflows using makefiles Parse essential bioinformatics file formats such as FASTA and FASTQ Find patterns of text using regular expressions Use higher-order functions in Python like filter(), map(), and reduce()

Bioinformatics: An Introduction
Bioinformatics: An Introduction

Author: Jeremy J. Ramsden

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2004-08-25

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781402021411

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An Introduction to Bioinformatics is intended to be a complete study companion for the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate student. It is self-contained in the sense that whatever the starting point may be, the reader will gain insight into bioinformatics. Underlying the work is the belief that bioinformatics is a kind of metaphoric lens through which the entire field of biology can be brought into focus, admittedly as yet imperfect, and understood in a unified way. Reflecting the highly incomplete present state of the field, emphasis is placed on the underlying fundamentals and acquisitions of a broad and comprehensive grasp of the field as a whole. Bioinformatics is interpreted as the application of information science to biology, in which it plays a fundamental and all-pervasive role. This interpretation enables a remarkably unified view of the entire field of biology to be taken and hence offers an excellent entry point into the life sciences for those for whom biology is unfamiliar.

Contemporary Research in Bioinformatics
Contemporary Research in Bioinformatics

Author: Sudheer Menon

Publisher: Pencil

Published: 2023-10-10

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 9358839325

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"Contemporary Research in Bioinformatics" is a comprehensive exploration of the dynamic field that lies at the intersection of biology, data science, and computation. This book serves as a roadmap for readers to navigate the evolving landscapes of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, structural biology, machine learning, and more. In an age where the deluge of biological data presents both opportunities and challenges, bioinformatics emerges as the guiding light that empowers us to decipher the complexities of life. This book is designed to cater to a diverse audience, including researchers, students, educators, and professionals seeking to gain a deeper understanding of bioinformatics and its pivotal role in shaping modern biology and healthcare.

Bioinformatics for Biologists
Bioinformatics for Biologists

Author: Pavel Pevzner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-09-15

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 1139501615

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The computational education of biologists is changing to prepare students for facing the complex datasets of today's life science research. In this concise textbook, the authors' fresh pedagogical approaches lead biology students from first principles towards computational thinking. A team of renowned bioinformaticians take innovative routes to introduce computational ideas in the context of real biological problems. Intuitive explanations promote deep understanding, using little mathematical formalism. Self-contained chapters show how computational procedures are developed and applied to central topics in bioinformatics and genomics, such as the genetic basis of disease, genome evolution or the tree of life concept. Using bioinformatic resources requires a basic understanding of what bioinformatics is and what it can do. Rather than just presenting tools, the authors - each a leading scientist - engage the students' problem-solving skills, preparing them to meet the computational challenges of their life science careers.