EMBOSS User's Guide: Practical Bioinformatics
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 6/16/2011
EAN 9780521607254, ISBN10: 0521607256
Paperback, 394 pages, 24.6 x 17.3 x 2 cm
Language: English
The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite (EMBOSS) is a well established, high quality package of open source software tools for molecular biology. It includes over 200 applications for molecular sequence analysis and general bioinformatics including sequence alignment, rapid database searching and sequence retrieval, motif identification and pattern analysis and much more. The EMBOSS User's Guide is the official and definitive guide to the package, containing comprehensive information and practical instructions from the people who developed it: • No prior experience with EMBOSS necessary • Set up and maintenance - get up and running quickly • Hands-on tutorial - learn EMBOSS the easy way, by working through practical examples • Data types and file formats - learn about the biological data that can be manipulated and analysed • In-depth explanation of the EMBOSS command line - learn advanced 'power user' features • Practical guides to popular EMBOSS GUIs (wEMBOSS and Jemboss)
Acknowledgements
1. Preface
2. Conventions used in the manual
3. Welcome to the EMBOSS user's manual
4. Background to EMBOSS
5. Basic set-up and maintenance
6. Getting started
7. Tutorial
8. File formats
9. The EMBOSS command line
10. Applications and packages
11. EMBOSS application reference
12. EMBASSY application reference
13. Interfaces
14. Using EMBOSS under wEMBOSS
15. Using EMBOSS under Jemboss.
"... this users’ guide is a comprehensive, detailed explanation of how to interact with EMBOSS. It is particularly useful for dedicated users of the system."
Sara Kalvala, Computing Reviews