Bioinformatics: Methods and Applications

Bioinformatics: Methods and Applications provides a thorough and detailed description of principles, methods, and applications of bioinformatics in different areas of life sciences. It presents a compendium of many important topics of current advanced research and basic principles/approaches easily applicable to diverse research settings. The content encompasses topics such as biological databases, sequence analysis, genome assembly, RNA sequence data analysis, drug design, and structural and functional analysis of proteins. In addition, it discusses computational approaches for vaccine design, systems biology and big data analysis, and machine learning in bioinformatics.It is a valuable source for bioinformaticians, computer biologists, and members of biomedical field who needs to learn bioinformatics approaches to apply to their research and lab activities.

• Covers basic and more advanced developments of bioinformatics with a diverse and interdisciplinary approach to fulfill the needs of readers from different backgrounds
• Explains in a practical way how to decode complex biological problems using computational approaches and resources
• Brings case studies, real-world examples and several protocols to guide the readers with a problem-solving approach

Dr. Dev Bukhsh Singh is Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at Siddharth University, Kapilvastu, India, a position he has held since 2021. Previously, he served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, India, from 2009 to 2021. His research focuses on medicinal biology, lead compound discovery, and drug design. He has been involved in teaching and mentoring undergraduate and postgraduate students in biotechnology since 2009. Dr. Singh has edited books in the areas of protein structure and function, computer-aided drug design, Protein-based therapeutics, medicinal biotechnology, genomics, and bioinformatics. He is a member of professional academic organizations and serves as a reviewer for scholarly journals. His academic interests include applying computational and biotechnological approaches to drug discovery and related life science research.

Rajesh Kumar Pathak completed his BSc from Barkatullah University, Bhopal, MSc from Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, and PhD from Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun, India. He has authored several articles in international journals including, Scientific Reports, Computational Biology and Chemistry, OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, Frontiers in Plant Science, 3 Biotech, Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, etc. His research interests lie in the areas of the genome and transcriptome assembly and annotation, microarray data analysis, pathway modeling, and network analysis, molecular docking, virtual screening, and molecular dynamics simulation. He has worked as a Teaching Personnel at G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, India, and Teaching Assistant at the School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India.