Quick Guide to Bioinformatics

Now reaching its eighth edition! Tired of always needing help to run a BLAST or analyze a sequencing? Tired of hearing how easy these analyses are supposed to be? Your problems are over! This is a quick and practical guide for beginners in bioinformatics to understand how sequencing is done, how to run a BLAST, and how to build a phylogenetic tree. The book includes simple concepts and step-by-step guides for using various programs, as well as definitions of key concepts and explanations of the meaning of each element found in BLAST results or phylogenetic trees. The Quick Guide is ideal for beginners and for those with little time for in-depth explanations at the start of their studies. Its goal is simply to provide practical guides, clear explanations, and helpful tips so the student can later dive deeper into the subject. The aim is to help, not to complicate.