Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Contributors VII
4. Chapter 1 Introduction to bioinformatics 1
5. Chapter 2 Biological databases and bioinformatics tools 13
6. Chapter 3 Fundamentals of bioinformatics 41
7. Chapter 4 Tools used in sequence alignment 61
8. Chapter 5 Recent advances in the discovery of drug molecules: trends, scope, and relevance 83
9. Chapter 6 Computer-aided drug design and drug discovery 103
10. Chapter 7 Immunoinformatics: computational keys to immune system secrets 123
11. Chapter 8 Phylogenetic analysis 141
12. Chapter 9 Basic structure of proteins: current paradigms, trends, and perspective 151
13. Index 171