InfoGuides: Bioinformatics: Find Books

Background Information for Bioinformatics

Most books in bioinformatics are shelved in the call number range of QH to QR.

Search Mason catalog by title and/or author to find a specific book or browse books by subject. Examples of relevant subject headings for Bioinformatics include:

Amino acid sequence
Base sequence
Bioinformatics
Computational biology
Gene mapping
Genetics - data processing
Genomes
Genomics
Molecular biology - computer simulation
Molecular biology - data processing
Molecular biology - mathematical models
Proteins
Proteomics
Sequence analysis

Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics, and Informatics by George P. Rédei; George P. Rédei
ISBN: 9781402067549
Publication Date: 2008-07-17
Springer Handbook of Bio-/Neuro-Informatics by Nikola Kasabov (Editor)
ISBN: 9783642305740
Publication Date: 2013-11-30

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
Over 3,000 entries including extensive figures, tables and supplementary multimedia. Offers three article types: introductory articles for non-specialist, secondary articles for the researcher, and special essays on controversial topics.

Biocomplexity Thesaurus
Developed through a partnership between the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) and Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA).
Biotech life Science Dictionary
Hosted at the University of Texas Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology. Includes the definitions of more than 8,300 terms in biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology, and genetics.
Commonly Used Genome Terms from NCBI
Includes commonly used genome terms and provides links to associated literature for each term.
Human Genome Glossary
Serves as a quick reference for some of the terms commonly used in bioinformatics resources to describe genes, sequence data, protein structures, and sequence similarity (BLAST) searching.
Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms
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Created by the National Human Genome Research Institute. Includes the term's pronunciation, audio information, images, and additional links to related terms.

Handbook of Biologic Statistics
An online book by John H. McDonald that teaches bioscinece students how to choose the appropriate statistical test for a particular experiment, then apply that test and interpret the results.
NCBI Bookshelf
A collection of biomedical books adapted for the web by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

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