Practical Bioinformatician, TheAuthor(s): Limsoon Wong\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, Singapore\nImprint: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd\nISBN-13: 9789812566652, 978-9812566652\nSynopsis\nComputer scientists have increasingly been enlisted as bioinformaticians to assist molecular biologists in their research. This book is a practical introduction to bioinformatics for these computer scientists. The chapters are in-depth discussions by expert bioinformaticians on both general techniques and specific approaches to a range of selected bioinformatics problems. The book is organized into clusters of chapters on the following topics: Overview of modern molecular biology and a broad spectrum of techniques from computer science data mining, machine learning, mathematical modeling, sequence alignment, data integration, workflow development, etc. In-depth discussion of computational recognition of functional and regulatory sites in DNA sequences.