Briefings in Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on October 26, 2007
Briefings in Bioinformatics 2008 9(1):91-93; doi:10.1093/bib/bbm049
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Bioinformatics—From Genomes to Therapies.
Edited by Thomas Lengauer
Bioinformatics—From Genomes to Therapies.
Edited by Thomas Lengauer, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co KGaA, Weinheim; 2007; ISBN: 978-3-527-312788; Hardcover; 3 Volume Set; 1814 pp.; $625.00.
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Bioinformatics—From Genomes to Therapies, edited by Thomas Lengauer, is big collection of contributions that includes the work of 91 authors arranged in 45 chapters, 11 parts and three volumes of 1814 pages. As an expanded sequel of the author's previous publication, Bioinformatics—From Genomes to Drugs, the book includes diverse topics in bioinformatics focusing on the challenges in understanding, diagnosing and curing of diseases.
Remembering aforementioned focus on the design, development and therapies of drugs for diseases, the three volumes are organized to help understand the building blocks of sequences and structures (Volume 1), the inner workings of molecular interactions (Volume 2) and the integrated picture of molecular function (Volume 3), respectively. Each volume in turn consists of several parts, each of which consists of several chapters under the same umbrella of a specific topic. References are provided at the end of each
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