Computing for Comparative Microbial Genomics: Bioinformatics for the Microbiologists

Introductions.- Sequences as Biological Information: Cells Obey the Laws of Chemistry and Physics.- Bioinformatics for Microbiologists: An Introduction.- Microbial Genome Sequences: A New Era in Microbiology.- An Overview of Genome Databases.- The Challenges of Programming: A Brief Introduction.- Comparative Genomics.- Methods to Compare Genomes The First Examples.- Genomic Properties: Length, Base Composition and DNA Structures.- Word Frequencies and Repeats.- Transcriptomics and Proteomics.- Transcriptomics: Translated and Untranslated RNA.- Expression of Genes and Proteins.- Of Proteins, Genomes, and Proteomes.- Microbial Communities.- Microbial Communities: Core and Pan-Genomics.- Metagenomics of Microbial Communities.- Evolution of Microbial Communities; or, On the Origins of Bacterial Species.