Introduction to bioinformatics / Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen -- Overview of structural bioinformatics / Quing Zhang, Stella Veretnik, Philip E. Bourne -- Database warehousing in bioinformatics / Judice LY Koh and Vladimir Brusic -- Database mining for bioinformatics / A.W.-C. Liew, Hong Yan and Mengsu Yang -- Machine learning in bioinformatics / Supawan Prompramote, Yan Chen and Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen -- Systems biotechnology : a new paradigm in biotechnology development / Sang Yup Lee [and others] -- Computational modeling of biological processes with petri net-based architecture / Masao Nagasaki . [and others] -- Biological sequence assembly and alignment / WeiShi, Wanlei Zhou and Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen -- Modeling for bioinformatics / Scott Mann and Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen -- Pattern matching for motifs / Brendan Tse, David Hume, Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen -- Visualization and fractal analysis of biological sequences / Zu-Guo, Vo Anhl and Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen -- Microarray data analysis / Alan W.-C. Liew [and others].

"This book describes the application of well-established concepts and techniques from areas like data mining, machine learning, database technologies, and visualization techniques to problems like protein data analysis, genome analysis and sequence databases. Yi-Ping Chen has collected contributions from leading researchers in each area. The chapters can be read independently, as each offers a complete overview of its specific area, or, combined, this monograph is a comprehensive treatment that will appeal to students, researchers, and R&D professionals in industry who need a state-of-the-art introduction into this challenging and exciting young field."--BOOK JACKET.