Abstract
Bioinformatics is the application of mathematics, statistics and computer science to biological data. In this chapter, we introduce this discipline and describe approaches to basic analyses of genomic DNA and RNA data.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Molecular Pathology in Cancer Research |
Editors | Sunil R. Lakhani, Stephen B. Fox |
Place of Publication | New York, NY |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 317-333 |
Number of pages | 17 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781493966431 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781493966417 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Bioinformatics
- Computational biology
- Copy number variants
- Fusion genes
- Single nucleotide variants
- SNP arrays
- Structural variants