Bioinformatics in Agriculture and Allied Sectors: Methods and Applications

Bioinformatics, a recently emerged frontier discipline, is the convergence of analytical and computational tools with the disciplines of biological sciences. Now-a-days, it has a great scope for development of entrepreneurship. The integration of three biological processes namely, DNA sequence determining protein sequence, protein sequence determining protein structure and protein structure determining protein function, makes us to achieve the long term goal of the complete understanding of the biology of organisms through the development of bioinformatics tools and software. Government of India is also giving much thrust for the development of this area through the Department of Biotechnology.
The present book “Bioinformatics in Agriculture and Allied Sectors” contains 26 chapters including some fundamental chapters of soil informatics, proteomics, sequence alignment, homology modeling, drug designing and bioinformatics application in aquaculture and avian sectors. Efforts were given to make this book in a simplified way for well understanding and to make very useful for the students, scientists and professionals engaged in research and development of bioinformatics education.