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This second edition integrates the more technical and mathematical aspects of bioinformatics with concrete examples of their application to current research problems in molecular and cellular biology. This broad, unified approach is made po
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Bioinformatics and the Cell Modern Computational Approaches in Genomics, Proteomics and Transcriptomics Second Edition
Bioinformatics and the Cell
Xuhua Xia
Bioinformatics and the Cell Modern Computational Approaches in Genomics, Proteomics and Transcriptomics Second Edition
Xuhua Xia University of Ottawa CAREG and Biology Department Ottawa, ON, Canada
ISBN 978-3-319-90682-9 ISBN 978-3-319-90684-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90684-3
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Preface to the Second Edition
A Christian author once remarked that a book is very much like a religion. A religion will slowly die if there is no revival movement, and a book will slowly die if there is no revision and new edition. I also heard a Christian joke about the revival movement. One pastor said that their revival movement gained them four new families, another declared to have gained six, and a third confessed to have just got rid of ten biggest troublemakers. The second edition of this book did get rid of some chapters and gain some new ones. Those deleted are obsolete, and those new ones, I hope, are not troublemakers but represent new blood that will extend the life of this book and spread its message much beyond what has been achieved in the first edition. The new edition that you are holding in your hands is far better than the first edition, and colleagues who had read the book agreed with me. The first edition of the book aimed to achieve two objectives. The first is to make bioinformatics as simple as possible, but not simpler. Re
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