Essential Computing Skills For Biologists: 11 (Series On Advances In Bioinformatics And Computational Biology) - Hardcover

Ziling Wang; Lishu Zhang

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848169248 ISBN 13: 9781848169241

Publisher: World Scientific Europe, 2018

Synopsis

This is a handbook of methods and protocols for biologists. It aimed at undergraduate, graduate students and researchers originally trained in biological or medical sciences who need to know how to access the data archives of genomes, proteins, metabolites, gene expression profiles and the questions these data and tools can answer. For each chapter, the conceptual and experimental background is provided, together with specific guidelines for handling raw data, including preprocessing and analysis.

The content is structured into three parts. Part one introduces basic knowledge about popular bioinformatics tools, databases and web resources. Part two presents examples of omics bioinformatics applications. Part three provides basic statistical analysis skills and programming skills needed to handle and analyze omics datasets.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This book presents the most important skills for anyone who wants to do quantitative analysis on biological data, especially for high-throughput omics data. Three topics are covered in this book: (1) Essential knowledge and skills necessary to use a Linux computer; (2) Write programs in Perl, and the use of BioPerl to write bioinformatics Perl programs; (3) Write programs in R, and the use of R to analyze data and generate pictures.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Europe
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1848169248
• ISBN 13: 9781848169241
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 304