Bioinformatics: Tools and Applications

450 Pages·2009·18.8 MB·English

by  David Edwards

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Bioinformatics
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David Edwards Jason Stajich David Hansen
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Editors
Bioinformatics
Tools and Applications
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Editors
David Edwards David Hansen
Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics Australian E-Health Research Centre
Institute for Molecular Biosciences CSIRO
and School of Land Qld 4027, Brisbane, Australia
Crop and Food Sciences
University of Queensland
Brisbane, QLD 4072
Australia
Jason Stajich
Department of Plant Pathology
and Microbiology
University of California
Berkeley, CA
USA
ISBN 978-0-387-92737-4 e-ISBN 978-0-387-92738-1
DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-92738-1
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Preface
Biology has progressed tremendously in the last decade due in part to the
increased automation in the generation of data from sequences to genotypes to
phenotypes. Biology is now very much an information science, and bioinformatics
provides the means to connect biological data to hypotheses. Within this volume,
we have collated chapters describing various areas of applied bioinformatics,
from the analysis of sequence, literature, and functional data to the function and
evolution of organisms. The ability to process and interpret large volumes of
data is essential with the application of new high throughput DNA sequencers
providing an overload of sequence data. Initial chapters provide an introduction
to the analysis of DNA and protein sequences, from motif detection to gene
prediction and annotation, with specific chapters on DNA and protein databases as
well as data visualization. Additional chapters focus on gene expression analysis
from the perspective of traditional microarrays and more recent sequence-based
approaches, followed by an introduction to the evolving field of phenomics, with
specific chapters detailing advances in plant and microbial phenome analysis and
a chapter dealing with the important issue of standards for functional genomics.
Further chapters present the area of literature databases and associated mining
tools which are becoming increasingly essential to interpret the vast volume of
published biological information, while the final chapters present bioinformatics
purely from a developer’s point of view, describing the various data and databases
as well as common programming languages used for bioinformatics applications.
These chapters provide an introduction and motivation to further avenues for
implementation. Together, this volume aims to provide a resource for biology
students wanting a greater understanding of the encroaching area of bioinformatics,
as well as computer scientists who are interested learning more about the field of
applied bioinformatics.
Brisbane, QLD David Edwards
Berkeley, CA Jason E. Stajich
Brisbane, QLD David Hansen
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Contents
1 DNA Sequence Databases ....................................................................... 1
David Edwards, David Hansen, and Jason E. Stajich
2 Sequence Comparison Tools .................................................................. 13
Michael Imelfort
3 Genome Browsers ................................................................................... 39
Sheldon McKay and Scott Cain
4 Predicting Non-coding RNA Transcripts .............................................. 65
Laura A. Kavanaugh and Uwe Ohler
5 Gene Prediction Methods ....................................................................... 99
William H. Majoros, Ian Korf, and Uwe Ohler
6 Gene Annotation Methods ..................................................................... 121
Laurens Wilming and Jennifer Harrow
7 Regulatory Motif Analysis ..................................................................... 137
Alan Moses and Saurabh Sinha
8 Molecular Marker Discovery and Genetic Map Visualisation ........... 165
Chris Duran, David Edwards, and Jacqueline Batley
9 Sequence Based Gene Expression Analysis .......................................... 191
Lakshmi K. Matukumalli and Steven G. Schroeder
10 Protein Sequence Databases ................................................................... 209
Terry Clark
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11 Protein Structure Prediction .................................................................. 225
Sitao Wu and Yang Zhang
12 Classification of Information About Proteins ....................................... 243
Amandeep S. Sidhu, Matthew I. Bellgard, and Tharam S. Dillon
13 High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping – Data Acquisition,
Transformation, and Analysis ................................................................ 259
Matthias Eberius and José Lima-Guerra
14 Phenome Analysis of Microorganisms .................................................. 279
Christopher M. Gowen and Stephen S. Fong
15 Standards for Functional Genomics ...................................................... 293
Stephen A. Chervitz, Helen Parkinson, Jennifer M. Fostel,
Helen C. Causton, Susanna-Assunta Sanson, Eric W. Deutsch,
Dawn Field, Chris F. Taylor, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Joe White,
and Christian J. Stoeckert
16 Literature Databases............................................................................... 331
J. Lynn Fink
17 Advanced Literature-Mining Tools ....................................................... 347
Pierre Zweigenbaum and Dina Demner-Fushman
18 Data and Databases ................................................................................. 381
Daniel Damian
19 Programming Languages ....................................................................... 403
John Boyle
Index ................................................................................................................. 441
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Contributors
Jacqueline Batley Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics,

Centre of Excellence for Integrative Legume Research, School of Land,
Crop and Food Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane,
QLD 4072, Australia
[e-mail]
John Boyle The Institute for Systems Biology, 1441 North 34th Street,

Seattle, WA 98105, USA
[e-mail]
Matthew Belgard Centre for Comparative Genomics, Murdoch University,

Perth, WA, Australia
[e-mail]
Scott Cain Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, 101 College Street,

Suite 800, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G0A3
[e-mail]
Helen C. Causton MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London,

Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK
[e-mail]
Stephen A. Chervitz Affymetrix Inc., Santa Clara, CA 95051, USA

[e-mail]
Terry Clark Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics,

Institute for Molecular Biosciences and School of Land,
Crop and Food Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane,
QLD 4072, Australia
[e-mail]
Daniel Damian Biowisdom Ltd., CB 22 7GG, Cambridge, UK

[e-mail]
Dina Demner-Fushman Communications Engineering Branch,

Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications,
US National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA
[e-mail]
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Eric W. Deutsch The Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA 98105, USA

[e-mail]
Tharram Dillon Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute,

Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, Australia
[e-mail]
Chris Duran Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics,

School of Land, Crop and Food Sciences,
University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
[e-mail]
Matthias Eberius LemnaTec GmbH, Schumanstr. 1a,

52146 Wuerselen, Germany
[e-mail]
David Edwards Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics,

Institute for Molecular Biosciences and School of land, Crop and Food Sciences,
University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
[e-mail]
Dawn Field Natural Environmental Research Council,

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Oxford, OX1 3SR, UK
[e-mail]
J. Lynn Fink Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences,

University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
[e-mail]
Stephen S. Fong Department of Chemical and Life Science Engineering,

Virginia Commonwealth University, P.O. Box 843028, Richmond, VA 23284, USA
[e-mail]
Jennifer M. Fostel Division of Intramural Research,

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
[e-mail]
Christopher M. Gowen Department of Chemical and Life Science Engineering,

Virginia Commonwealth University, P.O. Box 843028, Richmond,
VA 23284, USA
[e-mail]
David Hansen Australian E-Health Research Centre,

CSIRO QLD 4027, Brisbane, Australia
[e-mail]
Jennifer Harrow Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Morgan Building,

Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1HH, UK
[e-mail]
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Michael Imelfort Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics,

Institute for Molecular Biosciences and School of Land,
Crop and Food Sciences, University of Queensland,
Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
[e-mail]
Laura A. Kavanaugh Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology,

Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA
[e-mail]
Ian Korf UC Davis Genome Center, University of California, Davis,

451 Health Sciences Drive, Davis, CA 95616, USA
[e-mail]
José Lima-Guerra Keygene N.V., Agrobusiness Park 90,

6708 PW Wageningen, The Netherlands
[e-mail]
William H. Majoros Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy,

Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
[e-mail]
Lakshmi K. Matukumalli Department of Bioinformatics and Computational

Biology, George Mason University, Manassas, VA 20110, USA
[e-mail]
Sheldon McKay Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road,

Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA
[e-mail]
Alan Moses Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto,

25 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3B2
[e-mail]
Uwe Ohler Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Institute for Genome

Sciences & Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
[e-mail]
Helen Parkinson European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust

Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
[e-mail]
Philippe Rocca-Serra European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust

Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
[e-mail]
Susanna-Assunta Sansone European Bioinformatics Institute,

Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
[e-mail]