Basics of bioinformatics : lecture notes of the Graduate Summer School on Bioinformatics of China /
Rui Jiang, Xuegong Zhang, Michael Q. Zhang, editors.
- Beijing Heidelberg : Tsinghua University Press : Springer, [2013]
- xix; 395 pages.
"This ambitious volume is the result of the successful 2007 Graduate Summer School on Bioinformatics of China held at Tsinghua University"--Foreword.
Includes bibliographical references.
Basics for Bioinformatics -- Basic Statistics for Bioinformatics -- Topics in Computational Genomics -- Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics -- Algorithms in Computational Biology -- Multivariate Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics Research -- Association Analysis for Human Diseases: Methods and Examples -- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Methods with Case Examples -- Applied Bioinformatics Tools -- Foundationsfor theStudyof Structure and Function of Proteins -- Computational Systems Biology Approaches for Deciphering Traditional Chinese Medicine -- Advanced Topics in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
This book outlines 11 courses and 15 research topics in bioinformatics, based on curriculums and talks in a graduate summer school on bioinformatics that was held in Tsinghua University. This book can serve as not only a primer for beginners in bioinformatics, but also a highly summarized yet systematic reference book for researchers in this field.