Scientific Computing

Structural Bioinformatics

Name: Structural Bioinformatics
Author: Philip E. Bourne, Helge Weissig
ISBN: 9780471202004

by Philip E. Bourne, Helge Weissig

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"The emerging discipline of structural bioinformatics comprises the development of computational technologies for methods of storage, retrieval, and analysis of the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules. Edited by Philip Bourne and Helge Weissig, this groundbreaking text provides a thorough understanding of the theories, associated algorithms, resources, and tools used in structural bioinformatics." Readers will gain the ability to make effective use of protein, DNA, RNA, carbohydrate, and complex structures to better understand biological function. Molecular biologists, biochemists, biophysicists, and bioinformaticians in basic and clinical research, as well as undergraduate and graduate students in biology, medicine, and computer science, will find Structural Bioinformatics to be an essential addition to their professional and academic libraries.

About the Author, Philip E. Bourne, Helge Weissig

PHILIP E. BOURNE, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego, and Director of Integrated Biosciences at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. He is also President of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). Dr. Bourne is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and three previous books.

HELGE WEISSIG, PhD, is a Project Leader in Bioinformatics at ActivX Biosciences, a proteomics company, and also co-coordinates the Bioinformatics Certificate program for UCSD Extension. After doing his postdoctoral work with Professor Bourne at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, he became the Technical Project Manager for the RCSB Protein Data Bank (PDB) at UCSD.

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"...a collection of very up-to-date reviews on special topics...bioinformatics specialists...will derive new inspiration from it..." (Angewandte Chemie, Vol 42(41), 2003)