Table of Contents

PART 1: GENOME PROJECTS: ORGANIZATION AND OBJECTIVES - The Human Genome Project - Animal Genome Projects - Plant Genome Projects - Microbial Genome Projects - Boxes - Flat File and Relational Databases - GenBank Files - PART 2: GENOME SEQUENCING AND ANNOTATION - Automated Sequencing - Genome Sequencing - Genome Annotation - Clustering of Gene Families - Boxes - Alignment Algorithms and Tools - BLAST and Alignment Implementation - Hidden Markov Models and Gene Finding - Fundamentals of Phylogenetic Methods - PART 3: GENE EXPRESSION AND THE TRANSCRIPTOME - Parallel Analysis of Gene Expression: Microarrays and Oligonucleotide Arrays SAGE, Microbeads, and Differential Display - Gene-by-Gene Analysis - Properties of Transcriptomes - Boxes - Image Extraction for Microarray Analysis - Clustering Methods - Identification of Regulatory Motifs - PART 4: PROTEOMICS AND FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS - Functional Proteomics - Structural Proteomics - Protein Interaction Maps - High Throughput Forward and Reverse Genetics - Boxes - Domain Profiling - Construction of Transgenic Animals and Plants - PART 5: SNPs AND VARIATION - Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms - Applications of SNP Technology - SNP Discovery - SNP Genotyping - Boxes - Linkage Disequilibrium Measures - Population-based Association Statistics - Transmission Disequilibrium Test Statistics - PART 6: COMPUTATIONAL GENOMICS - Metabolomics - In silico Genomics

About the Author

GREG GIBSON, North Carolina State University. - SPENCER MUSE, North Carolina State University.