Datasheet

Genome bioinformatics covered in this book
The following list lets you know where in this book you’ll find more in-depth
coverage of specific topics (some of them bristling with scary, mouth-filling
terms) related to genome bioinformatics:
 Finding which genomes are available (Chapter 3)
 Analyzing sequences in relation to specific genomes (Chapters 3 and 7)
 Displaying genomes (Chapter 3)
 Parsing a microbial genome sequence: ORFing (Chapter 5)
 Parsing a eukaryotic genome sequence: GenScan (Chapter 5)
 Finding orthologous and paralogous genes (Chapter 3)
 Finding repeats (Chapter 5)
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