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The Role of Bioinformatics in Agriculture

By Santosh Kumar

Book information

Publisher
CRC Press, Apple Academic Press
Year
2014
ISBN
1306502179, 9781306502177, 978-1-4822-3907-2, 1482239078, 978-1-77188-003-9
DOI
10.1201/b16568
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3743644 bytes)
Pages
483 pages: illustrations\483
Time added
2014-08-04 10:00:00

Description

Advances in information technology and next generation sequencing have propelled the use of bioinformatics in agriculture, especially in the area of crop improvement. An extremely large amount of genomics data is available from plants and animals due to tremendous improvements in the field. This book acquaints readers with state-of-the-art sequencing technologies, recent developments in computing algorithms, and certain biological perspectives that influence development of bioinformatics tools by giving specific examples from model plant species. The challenge is now to make sense and use o. Read more...

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