Mohammad Yaseen Sofi - Bioinformatics for Everyone

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To write the foreword for Bioinformatics for Everyone by my bright colleagues gives me great joy. It is an incredible achievement for the authors following the successful publication of Advanced Methods in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology: A Practical Lab Manual , a succinct reference on common procedures and procedures for advanced molecular biology and biotechnology testing.

Bioinformatics, often referred to as life science informatics, is a modern discipline of biotechnology that provides biologists with a critical tool for expediting biotechnology and Molecular Biology research. Bioinformatics refers to how biotechnology and information technology have converged. Bioinformatics has long been recognised as a critical tool for mining, analysing, searching, integrating and modeling molecular biological data in life science. I found this book a compact yet comprehensive bioinformatics textbook that provides an overview of the entire discipline along with thorough techniques. Written primarily for a life science audience, this book covers the fundamentals of bioinformatics before delving into the state-of-the-art computational methods available for solving biological research challenges. This book covers all critical areas of bioinformatics, including biological databases, sequence alignment and a variety of fundamental bioinformatics software and tools. This book provides a concise review of each bioinformatic software which includes a variety of online and offline bioinformatics tools and applications along with their step-by-step protocols that might act as a consolation for undergraduate and postgraduate students who are in desperate need of assistance at this point. The material provided by this book is suitable for both academic and research use. Additionally, the concept underlying this book transcends the frequently encountered restricted understanding of bioinformatic software and tools, which may be limited to specific tasks such as attempting to identify genes in a DNA sequence.

Moreover, I congratulate Dr Khalid Z. Masoodi and his PhD students Mr Mohd Yaseen Sofi and Ms Afshana Shaft on this outstanding publication, and I am convinced that this book will provide many opportunity for students and researchers to rapidly instill concepts and ideas in Bioinformatics for Everyone .