Advances in Bioinformatics and Its Applications (Electronic book text)

This unique volume presents major developments and trends in bioinformatics and its applications. Comprising high-quality scientific research papers and state-of-the-art survey articles, the book has been divided into three main sections: Sequences, Structures, and Functions; Pathways, Biological Networks, and System Biology; and Microarray Data, Medical Informatics, and Applications. These results of these investigations help the practicing biologist in many ways: in identifying unknown connections, in narrowing down possibilities for a search, in suggesting new hypotheses, designing new experiments, validating existing models or proposing new ones. It is an essential source of reference for researchers and graduate students in bioinformatics, computer science, mathematics, statistics, and biological sciences based on selected papers from the The International Conference on Bioinformatics and Its Application (ICBA), held December 16-19, 2004 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.