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Computational methods for understanding bacterial and archaeal genomes /

Over 500 prokaryotic genomes have been sequenced to date, and thousands more have been planned for the next few years. While these genomic sequence data provide unprecedented opportunities for biologists to study the world of prokaryotes, they also raise extremely challenging issues such as how to d...

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Corporate Authors: World Scientific (Firm)
Group Author: Xu, Ying, 1960- (Editor); Gogarten, J. Peter. (Editor)
Published: Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co.,
Publisher Address: London : Singapore :
Publication Dates: 2008.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Series on advances in bioinformatics and computational biology, v. 7
Subjects:
Microbial genetics > Data processing > Textbooks.
Bacterial genomes > Data processing > Textbooks.
Prokaryotes > Textbooks.
Computational biology > Textbooks.
Electronic books.
Online Access: http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/P536#t=toc
Summary: Over 500 prokaryotic genomes have been sequenced to date, and thousands more have been planned for the next few years. While these genomic sequence data provide unprecedented opportunities for biologists to study the world of prokaryotes, they also raise extremely challenging issues such as how to decode the rich information encoded in these genomes. This comprehensive volume includes a collection of cohesively written chapters on prokaryotic genomes, their organization and evolution, the information they encode, and the computational approaches needed to derive such information. A comparative view of bacterial and archaeal genomes, and how information is encoded differently in them, is also presented. Combining theoretical discussions and computational techniques, the book serves as a valuable introductory textbook for graduate-level microbial genomics and informatics courses.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xix,473pages) : illustrations (some color).
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-466) and index.
ISBN: 9781860949838 (electronic bk.)
CLC: Q933-37
Contents: 1. General characteristics of prokaryotic genomes / Jan Mr azek and Anne O. Summers -- 2. Genes in prokaryotic genomes and their computational prediction / Rajeev K. Azad -- 3. Evolution of the genetic code: computational methods and inferences / Greg Fournier -- 4. Dynamics of prokaryotic genome evolution / Pascal Lapierre -- 5. Mobile genetic elements and their prediction / Morgan G. I. Langille ... [et al.] -- 6. Horizontal gene transfer: its detection and role in microbial evolution / J. Peter Gogarten and Olga Zhaxybayeva -- 7. Genome reduction during prokaryotic evolution / Francisco J. Silva and Amparo Latorre -- 8. Comparative mechanisms for transcription and regulatory signals in archaea and bacteria / Agustino Mart inez-Antonio and Julio Collado-Vides -- 9. Computational techniques for orthologous gene prediction in prokaryotes / Maria Poptsova -- 10. Computational elucidation of operons and uber-operons / Phuongan Dam ... [et al.] -- 11. Prediction of regulons through comparative genome analyses / Zhengchang Su, Guojun Li and Ying Xu -- 12. Prediction of biological pathways through data mining and information fusion / Fenglou Mao ... [et al.] -- 13. Microbial pathway models / Siren R. Veflingstad ... [et al.] -- 14. Metagenomics / Kayo Arima and John Wooley.

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