Main description:

Bioinformatics Algorithms: Design and Implementation in Python provides a comprehensive book on many of the most important bioinformatics problems, putting forward the best algorithms and showing how to implement them. The book focuses on the use of the Python programming language and its algorithms, which is quickly becoming the most popular language in the bioinformatics field. Readers will find the tools they need to improve their knowledge and skills with regard to algorithm development and implementation, and will also uncover prototypes of bioinformatics applications that demonstrate the main principles underlying real world applications.

Contents:

Part I: Bioinformatics Basics 1. Introduction 2. Relevant Biological Concepts 3. Algorithms and Python: Introduction 4. Optimization: Basic Concepts and Algorithms

Part II: Sequence Analysis Algorithms 5. Basic Processing of DNA Sequences: Transcription and Translation 6. Finding Patterns in Sequences 7. Pairwise Sequence Alignment 8. Searching Similar Sequences in Databases 9. Multiple Sequence Alignment 10. Phylogenetic Analysis 11. Motif Discovery 12. Hidden Markov Models 13. Stochastic Algorithms

Part III: Graph and Large-Scale Sequencing Data Processing 14. Graphs 15. Biological Networks 16. Assembling Reads into Genomes 17. Matching Reads to Reference Sequences

Part IV: Conclusions 18. Further Reading and Resources 19. Final Words

Appendix: Python Reference Functions