Visualizing Biological InformationBiological data of all kinds is proliferating at an incredible rate. If humans attempt to read such data in the form of numbers and letters, they will take in the information at a snail's pace. If the information is rendered graphically, however, human analysts can assimilate it and gain insight at a much faster rate. The emphasis of this book is on the graphic representation of information-containing sequences such as DNA and amino acid sequences in order to help the human analyst find interesting and biologically relevant patterns. The editor's goal is to make this voyage through molecular biology, genetics and computer graphics as accessible to a broad audience as possible, with the inclusion of glossaries at the end of most chapters and program outlines where applicable. The book will be of most interest to biologists and computer scientists and the various large reference lists should be of interest to beginners and advanced students of biology, graphic art and computer science. Contributors have sought to find pattern and meaning in the cacophony of genetic and protein sequence data using unusual computer graphics and musical techniques. |
Contents
Section 1 | vii |
Section 2 | xxxviii |
Section 3 | xl |
Section 4 | xliii |
Section 5 | li |
Section 6 | 10 |
Section 7 | 63 |
Section 8 | 64 |
Section 9 | 66 |
Section 10 | 77 |
Section 11 | 78 |
Section 12 | 109 |
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Common terms and phrases
Acids Res amino acid sequences angular barograms atoms AUG codon axis Biol Biological sequences cell center of mass chain coding sequences codon coli color composite discriminator conserved coordinates corresponding database display DNA sequences domains E-mail eukaryotic example expression profiles folding four bases fractal frequencies function gels GenBank gene genetic code genetic sequence Gray code HCA plots helical Hgram graph homology Huen's code human genome hydrophobic hydrophobic clusters mapping points method molecule motifs mRNA nucleic acid nucleotide nucleotide sequences open reading frames patterns Pickover plane point geometry polypeptide position primers protein sequences purine pyrimidine random sequences receptors reference region represented Research residues ribosomal RNA Rous sarcoma virus Rspots Science secondary structure sequence analysis sequence data sequence logo shown in Fig similar space species spots stem-loop strands subvectors tetrahedron translation variable vector vector-code vertices virus visualization yeast z-buffer
References to this book
Evolution and Emergence:Systems, Organisms, Persons: Systems, Organisms, Persons William R. Stoeger, SJ No preview available - 2007 |