Overview
- Introduces readers to the fascinating world of bioinformatics
- Enlightens students regarding various career opportunities in the field of bioinformatics
- Discusses the Ten Commandments for becoming a bioinformatics professional
- Highlights the virtues of bioinformatics for schools, professionals, and developing countries
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About this book
This book which is the second edition of Your Passport to a Career in Bioinformatics, is intended for students who plan to work in bioinformatics. In addition to addressing the opportunities and challenges faced by today’s bioinformatics community, it demonstrates how bioinformatics is currently transitioning from research to vocation and avocation. Further, it extols the virtues of in silico for bioinformatics predictions, as it helps wet-lab biologists reduce the time needed for experiments.
In turn, the book addresses career prospects and the Ten Commandments for becoming a bioinformatics professional; bioinformatics for developing countries; bioinformatics for schools; bioinformatics for markets; and the knowns and unknowns of bioinformatics. It also explores how bioinformatics interacts with various fields in terms of three Cs: consistency, continuity, and credibility.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Prashanth N Suravajhala is currently working as a Senior Scientist at Birla Institute of Scientific Research (BISR), Jaipur. Previously, he has obtained a Ph.D. in Systems Biology. He has been involved in various projects specific to immunomodulatory/metabolic diseases and cancer biology. He has identified candidate genes using in silico approaches and provided a standard classification and scoring scheme for characterizing hypothetical proteins in vitro, specifically those that are targeted to mitochondria. More recently, his interests have expanded to transcriptomic profiling, functional proteomics and molecular genetics of cancer/diseasome approaches linked to evolutionary aspects in understanding functional aspects of regulatory genes, epigenomic profiling, miRNAs, and long non-coding RNAs. He is a founder of Bioclues.org, a not-for-profit organization through which he mentors bioinformatics graduates.
.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Your Passport to a Career in Bioinformatics
Editors: Prashanth N. Suravajhala
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9544-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9543-1Published: 17 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-9544-8Published: 16 February 2021
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XV, 115
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics, Computer Appl. in Life Sciences, Genetics and Genomics