Fundamentals of C 3. Control Statements In C 4.

Functions in C 5. Pointers in C 6.

Structures And Unions in C 7. Data Files in C , Appendices.

Index. "This book provides a standard text on programming in C for both the undergraduate and postgraduate students and also research scientists of life sciences, who would like to acquire programming skills and write simple programs in C.

This book does not assume any prior knowledge of computers or programming and hence, it introduces all the basic concepts starting from the Introduction to Computers and Fundamentals of C along with all the salient features of C namely, Control statements, Functions, Pointers, Structures, Unions, and Data Files in C. The concepts of programming in C are explained keeping in mind the students and research scientists of life sciences.

As most of the students of life sciences stream may be less comfortable (less)

Bioinformatics: the art and science of decoding life. 2.

Origin and history of bioinformatics. 3.

Applications of computers in bioinformatics research. 4.

Rules-of -Thumb for bioinformatics. 5.

Sequencing DNA and RNA. 6.

Sequencing proteins. 7.

Archives and information retrieval. 8.

Available database. 9.

Applications of bioinformatics. 10.

Problems in bioinformatics. 11.

The biotechnology information system in India. 12.

Bioinformatics: employment opportunities. Glossary.

Selected references. Appendices.

"Past few years have witnessed nothing less than a flood of nucleic acid and protein sequence data. The management of these data would be impossible without computers.

Bioinformatics is the combination of biology and information technology. This applied branch of science deals with the computer-based analysis of large biological data sets.

Bioinformatics incorporates the development of databases to store and search data, and of statistical tools and algorithms to analyze and determine relationships between biological data sets, such as macromolecular sequences, structures, expression profiles (less)

Introduction to computers. 2.

History of computers. 3.

Introduction to bioinformatics. 4.

An overview of bioinformatics. 5.

Bioinformatics : a prophet of plenty. 6.

Bioinformatics: development and prospects. 7.

Bioinformatics: aims, applications and commercialization. The word bioinformatics is derived from biology and informatics; the discipline of bioinformatics is rightly identified as a combination of computer science and biology.

It is a computer-assisted interface discipline dealing with the acquisition, storage, management, and access and processing of molecular biology data. This discipline helps us to collect, compile, analyze, process and represent the information in order to understand processes of life, health, disease status and find new processes or better drugs delivery system for genes, drugs and other genetic components for life improvement and to educate oneself.

It is an interdisciplinary scientific tool without barriers among various disciplines of science like biology, mathematics, and computer science and information technology. Bioinformatics also helps in digitizing the (less)

Bioinformatics – an overview/S. Seshadri, K.

Kathiravan, R. Elangomathavan, S.

Prakash and S. Ignacimuthu.

2. Bioinformatics : a boon to the mankind/Yogesh T.

Jasrai, Bhavisha B. Wala, Maulik N.

Thaker and Anuja N. Dubey.

3. Bioinformatics – approaches and applications/S.

Seshadri, S. Janarthanan, K.

Kathiravan, S. Prakash, R.

Elangomathavan and S. Ignacimuthu.

4. Structural bioinformatics/Talluri Sekhar, J.

S.R.

Murthy and Adam Liwo. 5.

Protein and nucleic acid databases, their accession and searching/R. Thimmaraju and N.

Bhagyalakshmi. 6.

Agro-informatics and its strategic role in agricultural research/D.K.

Verma and N.K.

Singh. 7.

Phytotherapeutical databases/S.S.

Mandal and P. Kumar.

8. Web based programming/D.

P. Bhavani Shekhar.

9. Artificial intelligence/D.

P. Bhavani Shekhar and Azeez Ahmed Khan.

"Computers are now an integral part of the biological world and without them, advancements in biology and medicine would undoubtedly be hindered. The partnership between these non-living structures (computers) and biology has created a need for mergers in certain aspects of the (less)

1. Introduction.

2. The machine.

3. Software.

4. Programming languages.

5. Data Base Management systems.

6. Library automation.

7. Library system analysis and design.

8. Library services and computers.

9. Information services and computers.

9. Telecommunications and networking.

11. Library and information networks.

12. Internet and library services.

Glossary. Bibliography.

Index. "Librarians and information professionals are confronted today by rapidly changing environment.

The major aspects to this change are new technologies and the potential for new services which they bring. At the same time library users and their demands are also changing.

They are now coming with new expectations and insist on high quality service. On the other hand the range and variety of information sources that librarians now deal with encompass print materials, CD-ROMs, online bibliographic databases in a variety of formats, electronic journals, digital text supplied from a number of vendors or downloaded from internet.

Each of the format required (less)

Introduction. 2.

Computer basics. 3.

Hardware-computers. 4.

Software computers. 5.

Data communication and networking. 6.

Internet : basics and tools. Vol.

II: IT’s Applications in LIS: 1. Database management systems.

2. Library automation.

3. Digital libraries.

4. System analysis and design.

5. Current trends in information technology.

Bibliography. "Though the field of Information Technology is ever-changing field and one work cannot be claimed as a complete work at a given time.

But we may try to keep pace with them and certainly, there are some fundamental, which never changes. "This book entitled ‘Basics of Information Technology for Librarians and Information Scientists’ is an attempt to provide basics of Information Technology to the working professionals in the library field.

The book comprises of two volumes; its first volume is devoted to fundamentals of IT and second one is to IT’s applications in LIS field. First volume starts with (less)

Introduction. 2.

Library catalogs. 3.

Tools used for cataloging. 4.

Descriptive cataloging. 5.

Subject headings. 6.

Classification. 7.

Copy cataloging. 8.

Cataloging on computers. 9.

The cataloging department. 10.

Issues and trends. Suggested readings.

Index. "The revised edition of the book is very impressive.

An additional chapter, 'Cataloging on computers', has been added and the explanation of the MARC format is quite good. Students and practicing LTAs will understand the various tags and indicators associated with a MARC record.

The chapter contains good examples of books, video recordings, serials, and computer disks cataloged in MARC format. Kao also gives the reader a guide to the commonly used MARC tags, fields, and indicators.

There is also information on how to search OCLC, which was not included in the previous edition. The chapter concerning issues and trends has also been expanded to include outsourcing, cooperation among libraries, and the Dublin Core, which provides a (less)

Bio-Programming Languages: Preface. 1.

History of computers. 2.

Computer architecture. 3.

Computer software concepts. 4.

Application softwares for computers. 5.

Database management system. 6.

Data communications. 7.

Internet basics. 8.

Introductory concepts. 9.

C Fundamentals. 10.

Operators and expressions. 11.

Data input and output. 12.

Control statements. 13.

Preparing and running a complete C Program. 14.

Data abstraction. 15.

Hiding the implementation. 16.

Initialization and cleanup. 17.

Function overloading and default arguments. 18.

Constants. 19.

Inline functions. 20.

Name control. Vol.

II. Genetics: Preface.

21. Genetics and the organism.

22. Patterns of inheritance.

23. Chromosomal basis of heredity.

24. Gene interaction.

25. Gene manipulation: an all-embracing technique.

26. Basic techniques.

27. Cutting and joining DNA molecules.

28. Basic biology of Plasmid and Phage vectors.

29. Cosmids, Phasmids and other advanced vectors.

30. Cloning strategies.

31. Sequencing and Mutagenesis.

Genetics glossary. Vol.

III. Statistical Methods and Database Management System: Preface.

32. Elementary concepts (less)

The rapid use of computer has introduced thousands of new abbreviations, technical terms into the scientific language. This dictionary will prove invaluable to anybody involved in biotechnology, bioinformatics and computer sciences.

Each terms starts with a simple, one line definition and progresses to explain the term in a little more details, showing how it relates to other associated areas of science. An conscious effort has been made to form a balance between providing a simple explanation than might be understood by some one encountering the term for the first time and producing an (less)

This dictionary explains the traditional concepts of library and information science and also attempts to provide information about the various aspects related with the subject, mainly libraries, library schools, library associations, librarians, information databases, software packages, search engines, etc., apart from the newly introduced terminology relating to computers, communications and the internet.

The dictionary covers about 10,000 terms and explains them in 6,00,000 words. Greater details have been provided for the widely used and important concepts.

Entries are arranged in alphabetical (less)

Introduction. 2.

Evolution of computers. 3.

Biological macromolecules. 4.

Basic techniques in bioinformatics. 5.

Biological database. 6.

Sequence alignment. 7.

Multiple sequence alignments. 8.

Computational gene prediction. 9.

Proteomics. 10.

Genomics. Glossary.

References. Index.

"Bioinformatics is a field of study that integrates biological sciences with computer science. This book is the first of its kind written for students and teachers.

It gives the readers an insight into genomics and proteomics including origin and history of bioinformatics, computer generations, their types and operating systems, role of PERL and JAVA as programming languages, central dogma of molecular biology, with structural details of DNA, RNA and proteins and fundamental techniques used to study their structures, the database retrieval with PubMed, Entrez, SRS, OMIM, ExPASy and EMBL, the BLAST and FASTA software packages to determine sequence matches, the computational methods for gene prediction, protein sequence databases. Swiss Prot, PDB, software for visualization of protein structure, and (less)

Bioinformatics : an overview. 2.

Molecular biology and bioinformatics. 3.

The information molecules and information flow. 4.

Proteins—their structural profiles and properties. 5.

Using the Linux operating system. 6.

Programming with Perl. 7.

Understanding and using biological databases. 8.

Alignment of pairs of sequence. 9.

Tools for sequence alignment. 10.

Alignment of multiple sequences. 11.

Phylogenetic analysis. 12.

Gene prediction methods. 13.

Visualization and predication of protein structure. 14.

Gene mapping, sequence assembly and gene expression. 15.

Proteomics. 16.

Problem solving in bioinformatics. Selected references.

Glossary. Index.

"Bioinformatics: Concepts, Skills & Applications is a comprehensive introduction to the field of bioinformatics that allows students, scientists, researchers, and even enthusiasts interested in the use of computers in biological research to better grasp this dynamic and fast emerging area. The book adopts an integrated approach because of the interdisciplinary nature of the subject, for developing skills in sequencing and analysing genomes of various organisms (less)

1. Bioinformatics.

2. Bioinformation.

Science and Technology has revolutionized the living standards of human life by the innovative technology and applications. These fields are growing in a fast face and contributing in understanding the scientific base of life.

We are experiencing the applications of biotechnology as bioinformatics, emerging science in the field of biotechnology. It is not surprising that many institutes are offering bioinformatics and biotechnology courses at under graduate.

Post graduate level. In this direction it was thought worthwhile to bring out a book, which helps to understand bioinformatics better.

Bioinformatics is the application of computer technology to the management of biological information. Computers are used to gather, store, analyze and integrate biological and genetic information which can then be applied to gene-based drug discovery and development.

The need for Bioinformatics capabilities has been precipitated by the explosion of publicly available genomic information resulting form the Human Genome Project. The goal (less)

1. Sequence retrieval.

2. Structure retrieval.

3. Sequence analysis.

4. Protein secondary structure prediction.

5. Gene prediction.

6. Representation of chemical compounds.

7. Representation of chemical reactions.

8. Protein structure modeling and validation.

9. Docking of protein with protein other molecules.

10. Data mining and data retrieval.

"These days computers are part of our every day lives. Everywhere you go they are used to keep track of data, process transactions and support communication.

The Human Genome Project (and other genome sequencing projects) is producing data at an astounding rate; currently sequence entries are being added to the EMBL sequence database faster than you can read their one-line descriptions - on average, one new sequence per second. The task of processing all this data and converting sequences into gene and protein predictions would be impossible without the development of computer based analysis tools.

The last few years have seen a rapid acceleration in (less)

2. Libraries and their development: state-of-art.

3. Different types of academic libraries and their development.

4. Collection organization in academic libraries.

5. Management in academic libraries.

6. Library services.

7. Computers and its applications to libraries.

8. Resource sharing amongst academic libraries.

9. User needs’ assessment and user education.

10. Library authorities and committees.

11. Problems of library staff.

12. Professional status of the librarians.

13. Public relations in academic libraries.

14. Distance/correspondence education and academic libraries.

Bibliography. "It is very true that libraries play an important role in development of a society.

Broadly speaking, there are three types of libraries. Viz.

, academic libraries, special libraries and public libraries. This book entitled ‘Academic Libraries’ gives an overview on each and every aspects of working environment of an academic library.

The whole work is divided into 14 chapters which covers state of art of development of different types of academic libraries, their working, (less)

State library policy. 2.

Public library development in the post-war years. 3.

Integrated rural library development. 4 .

Delhi public library project. 5.

Information technology and library networking. 6.

Utilising the services of GISTNIC. 7.

Public libraries and resource sharing. 8.

National Documentation Centre for Naturopathy (NDCN). 9.

Development of the humanities libraries in India. 10.

Delhi University Library System. 11.

Jamia Millia Islamia Library. 12.

Journal of library and Information Science. 13.

Usage of NASSDOC Resources. 14.

Use of periodicals in science. 15.

Information-handling and communication. 16.

Use of government publications. 17.

Access to information through electronic media. Reference.

Index. "The impact of Information Technology is now being visible among the people who are using computers in library for advancement and upgradation of traditional knowledge resource.

It has become a necessity in present day context. The growing demand from the users have created new tools and techniques which would definitely create (less)

2. Geological time scale.

3. Live molecules outside the solar system.

4. World beyond earth.

5. Principles of change.

6. Limits to growth.

7. Handle on the future.

8. Self-replication.

9. Nano-runaway replicators.

10. Environmental nanoscience.

11. Politics of technology.

12. Virtual molecular reality.

13. Transmission of biomolecules.

14. Environment and its inhabitants.

15. Improving human race.

Index. "Everyone in the modern world knows what technology is.

But what is nanotechnology? Taken from the Greek, nano means "one billionth part of' a whole. In modern parlance, it means very, very small.

In today's world of smaller cell phones and portable computers, miniaturization is the current technology. Nanotechnology is the next step after miniaturization.

In tomorrow's world, nanotechnology will be the new common technology. It will affect everyone of the planet and many change civilization as we know it.

Nanotechnology is the molecular engineering. It will soon create effective machines as small as (less)

Glossary. 1.

Basics of nano physics and nanotechnology: an introduction. 2.

Integrating physics, computers and nanotechnology: an interdisciplinary approach. 3.

Historical evolution and development of nanotubes: towards understanding their commercial uses. 4.

Applications of nanotubes and buckytubes in conductive plastics, adhesives, connectors and other areas. Vol.

II: 5. Recent advances in other major fields of nanoscience, nano physics and nanotechnology.

6. Use of nano physics in nano labs and nanotechnology products: an integrated approach.

7. Major applications and utilities of nano-optics: an overview of global trends.

8. Towards explaining the differences among nanoscale scanning, nanosensors, nanowires and nanoribbons: an overview.

Appendix. Bibliography.

Index. From the Preface: "This book titled "International Encyclopaedia of Nano Technology, Science and Physics" deals briefly with the subject areas of nano-optics, nanotube, nanofibre, nano-sensor, nanowire and nanoribbon.

Keeping in mind the applications and utilities of nano physics for meeting the contemporary global energy requirements, it seems that (less)

2. Engineering the molecules.

3. Responses to new science: controversies and worries.

4. An overview of MNT timeline.

5. Panorama of applications: Surprises! Surprises!.

6. Nanotechnology: concerns of the common man.

7. With benefits will come some potential dangers.

8. Transformed power games in the coming molecular age.

9. Technology of small put to some real small usage.

10. When science fictions will be touching the reality.

Appendix. "The book Introductory Nanotechnology is an intelligent selection of essays that not only underline the importance of nanotechnology but explain the nut and bolts of it for the students.

Nanotechnology--the precise engineering of tiny but powerful machines--is advancing quickly, leaping from the pages of science fiction into world-class research laboratories, and coming soon to a desktop near you. Like electricity or computers before it, nanotechnology will bring greatly improved efficiency and productivity in many areas of human endeavor.

In its mature (less)