Bioinformatics analysis of sequence data

Anthony T. Papenfuss, Daniel Cameron, Jan Schroeder, Ismael Vergara

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter (Book)Otherpeer-review

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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMolecular Pathology in Cancer Research
EditorsSunil R. Lakhani, Stephen B. Fox
Place of PublicationNew York, NY
PublisherSpringer
Pages317-333
Number of pages17
ISBN (Electronic)9781493966431
ISBN (Print)9781493966417
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational biology
  • Copy number variants
  • Fusion genes
  • Single nucleotide variants
  • SNP arrays
  • Structural variants

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