Hamid D. Ismail earned his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in computational science from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA, and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) and Applied Diploma in Statistics and Programming from the University of Khartoum, Sudan. He has worked as an adjunct professor, bioinformatics specialist, bioinformatics tool developer, senior scientist, statistician, and database consultant with several institutions. He is currently a Ph.D. Research Associate at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Dr. Ismail is a published author in bioinformatics, statistics, machine learning, and bio-science, and hehas developed a number of bioinformatics desktop and web-based applications. He is also a reviewer for a number of academic journals.

Bioinformatics is a necessary text that will help researchers/students gain background knowledge and understand the usage of NCBI databases. It is well suited for audiences who do not have a bioinformatics background as it defines what genomic data is and the fundamentals of the sequence alignment. It also thoroughly explains how to use NCBI tools to retrieve the researchers' genomic data of interest.-- Roshonda Jones, Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Nom Nom

• ContentsPreface, viiAcknowledgments, ixChapter 1 | The Origin of Genomic Information 1Chapter 2 | The Sources of Genomic Data 39Chapter 3 | The NCBI Entrez Databases 77Chapter 4 | NCBI Entrez E- Utilities and Applications 265Chapter 5 | The Entrez Direct 289Chapter 6 | R and Python Packages for the NCBI E- Utilities 343Chapter 7 | Pairwise Sequence Alignment 383Chapter 8 | Basic Local Alignment Search Tool 407INDEX, 453

Hamid D. Ismail earned his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in computational science from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA, and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) and Applied Diploma in Statistics and Programming from the University of Khartoum, Sudan. He has worked as an adjunct professor, bioinformatics specialist, bioinformatics tool developer, senior scientist, statistician, and database consultant with several institutions. He is currently a Ph.D. Research Associate at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Dr. Ismail is a published author in bioinformatics, statistics, machine learning, and bio-science, and hehas developed a number of bioinformatics desktop and web-based applications. He is also a reviewer for a number of academic journals.

Bioinformatics is a necessary text that will help researchers/students gain background knowledge and understand the usage of NCBI databases. It is well suited for audiences who do not have a bioinformatics background as it defines what genomic data is and the fundamentals of the sequence alignment. It also thoroughly explains how to use NCBI tools to retrieve the researchers' genomic data of interest.-- Roshonda Jones, Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Nom Nom

• ContentsPreface, viiAcknowledgments, ixChapter 1 | The Origin of Genomic Information 1Chapter 2 | The Sources of Genomic Data 39Chapter 3 | The NCBI Entrez Databases 77Chapter 4 | NCBI Entrez E- Utilities and Applications 265Chapter 5 | The Entrez Direct 289Chapter 6 | R and Python Packages for the NCBI E- Utilities 343Chapter 7 | Pairwise Sequence Alignment 383Chapter 8 | Basic Local Alignment Search Tool 407INDEX, 453

Hamid D. Ismail earned his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in computational science from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA, and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) and Applied Diploma in Statistics and Programming from the University of Khartoum, Sudan. He has worked as an adjunct professor, bioinformatics specialist, bioinformatics tool developer, senior scientist, statistician, and database consultant with several institutions. He is currently a Ph.D. Research Associate at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Dr. Ismail is a published author in bioinformatics, statistics, machine learning, and bio-science, and hehas developed a number of bioinformatics desktop and web-based applications. He is also a reviewer for a number of academic journals.

Bioinformatics is a necessary text that will help researchers/students gain background knowledge and understand the usage of NCBI databases. It is well suited for audiences who do not have a bioinformatics background as it defines what genomic data is and the fundamentals of the sequence alignment. It also thoroughly explains how to use NCBI tools to retrieve the researchers' genomic data of interest.-- Roshonda Jones, Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Nom Nom

• ContentsPreface, viiAcknowledgments, ixChapter 1 | The Origin of Genomic Information 1Chapter 2 | The Sources of Genomic Data 39Chapter 3 | The NCBI Entrez Databases 77Chapter 4 | NCBI Entrez E- Utilities and Applications 265Chapter 5 | The Entrez Direct 289Chapter 6 | R and Python Packages for the NCBI E- Utilities 343Chapter 7 | Pairwise Sequence Alignment 383Chapter 8 | Basic Local Alignment Search Tool 407INDEX, 453