Introduction to mathematical methods in bioinformatics

Abstract

Broadly speaking, Bioinformatics can be defined as a collection of mathematical, statistical and computational methods for analyzing biological sequences, that is, DNA, RNA and amino acid (protein) sequences. Numerous projects for sequencing the DNA of particular organisms constantly supply new amounts of data on an astronomical scale, and it would not be realistic to expect that biologists will ever be able to make sense of it without resorting to help from more quantitative disciplines