Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins

I am writing these words on a watershed day in molecular biology. This morning, a paper was officially published in the journal Nature reporting an initial sequence and analysis of the human genome. One of the fruits of the Human Genome Project, the paper describes the broad landscape of the nearly 3 billion bases of the euchromatic portion of the human chromosomes. In the most narrow se…