Introduction to Data Mining in Bioinformatics

The aim of this book is to introduce the reader to some of the best techniques for data mining in bioinformatics in the hope that the reader will build on them to make new discoveries on his or her own. The book contains twelve chapters in four parts, namely, overview, sequence and structure alignment, biological data mining, and biological data management. This chapter provides an introduction to the field and describes how the chapters in the book relate to one another.