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EMBOSS User's Guide

EMBOSS User's Guide

EMBOSS User's Guide

Practical Bioinformatics
Peter M. Rice, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton
Alan J. Bleasby, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton
Jon C. Ison, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton
Lisa Mullan
Guy Bottu
June 2011
Paperback
9780521607254
£41.99
GBP
Paperback

    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)

    • The official, definitive guide to EMBOSS - learn first-hand from the people who developed the package
    • Includes a hands-on tutorial - learn EMBOSS the best way: by working through practical examples
    • Includes an explanation of the types of data handled by EMBOSS with illustrated examples of supported file formats - learn about the types of biological data that can be manipulated and analysed
    • Includes in-depth guides to popular EMBOSS GUIs (wEMBOSS and Jemboss), enabling readers to learn about powerful graphical and convenient web-based interfaces to the programs

    Product details

    June 2011
    Paperback
    9780521607254
    394 pages
    246 × 173 × 19 mm
    0.79kg
    9 b/w illus. 50 tables
    Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint

    Table of Contents

    • 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.