Book review on Bioinformation Discovery: Data to knowledge in Biology

Researchers in almost all disciplines of Biology use mathematical, statistical models and computer programs to analyze and validate biological data. Systematic data mining is frequently completed in recent years using Bioinformatics soft-wares. The available Bioinformatics techniques and tools help annotate functions for newly generated data in biological investigation. The book (ISBN 978-1-4419-0518-5 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0519-2) entitled “Bioinformation Discovery: Data to knowledge in Biology” by Dr. Pandjassarame Kangueane is published by Springer USA. This book describes the use of Biological data and Bioinformatics techniques and tools in Biological knowledge discovery. The book contains ten chapters. The first chapter describes concepts, principles and components of Bioinformatics with its various applications in agriculture, healthcare and industrial biotechnology sectors. The author precisely highlights that a sound knowledge in the basic concepts of bioinformatics is the real foundation for Bioinformation discovery from data. In the same chapter he also discussed the importance of Bioinformatics in Drug Discovery. The second chapter describes biological datasets and methods to create data subsets from primary databases like GenBank, EMBL, DDBJ and Protein databank (PDB). The provided dataset examples illustrate the importance of specialized datasets in Biological knowledge discovery.