Visualizing Biological Information

About this book

Argues that by rendering information graphically analysts can assimilate information at a much faster rate. They place an emphasis on the graphic representation of biological information, especially molecular biology and genetics.

Contents

Diagnosing malignancies and AIDS using computer graphics, J.P. Robinson; gene music - tonal assignments of bases and amino acids, N. Munakata and K. Hayashi; visual analysis of nucleic acid sequences, J. Ninio; gel analysis with computer graphics, P. Lemkin; barograms - a transforming function to generate unidimensional fractals from nucleotide sequences, J. Campione-Piccardo; hydroflakes - protein hydrophilicity represented by symmetrized dot patterns and computer drawn cartoon faces representing protein sequences, M. Campbell; mutability patterns in protein coding genes, D. Graur; RNA patterns, P. Hackett; hidden Markov chains and the analysis of genome structure, G. Churchill; a protein visualization programme, D.A. Kuznetsov and H.A. Lim; RNA and protein structure prediction by neural nets, E. Steeg; a space-efficient representation of amino acid sequences, A. Williams et al; DNA and protein patterns with HGRAMS, Y.K. Huen; RNA folding, K. Yamamoto.

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