EMBOSS user's guide : practical bioinformatics

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    • Rice, Peter
    • Bleasby, Alan
    • Ison, Jon
    • Mullan, Lisa
    • Bottu, Guy

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EMBOSS user's guide : practical bioinformatics

Peter Rice, Alan Bleasby, Jon Ison ; with contributions from Lisa Mullan, Guy Bottu

Cambridge University Press, 2011

  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite (EMBOSS) is a well established, high quality package of open source software tools for molecular biology. It includes over 200 applications for molecular sequence analysis and general bioinformatics including sequence alignment, rapid database searching and sequence retrieval, motif identification and pattern analysis and much more. The EMBOSS User's Guide is the official and definitive guide to the package, containing comprehensive information and practical instructions from the people who developed it: * No prior experience with EMBOSS necessary * Set up and maintenance - get up and running quickly * Hands-on tutorial - learn EMBOSS the easy way, by working through practical examples * Data types and file formats - learn about the biological data that can be manipulated and analysed * In-depth explanation of the EMBOSS command line - learn advanced 'power user' features * Practical guides to popular EMBOSS GUIs (wEMBOSS and Jemboss)

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Preface
  • 2. Conventions used in the manual
  • 3. Welcome to the EMBOSS user's manual
  • 4. Background to EMBOSS
  • 5. Basic set-up and maintenance
  • 6. Getting started
  • 7. Tutorial
  • 8. File formats
  • 9. The EMBOSS command line
  • 10. Applications and packages
  • 11. EMBOSS application reference
  • 12. EMBASSY application reference
  • 13. Interfaces
  • 14. Using EMBOSS under wEMBOSS
  • 15. Using EMBOSS under Jemboss.

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