The Role of Bioinformatics in Agriculture

Download or read book The Role of Bioinformatics in Agriculture written by Santosh Kumar and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Advances in information technology and next generation sequencing have propelled the use of bioinformatics in agriculture, especially in the area of crop improvement. An extremely large amount of genomics data is available from plants and animals due to tremendous improvements in the field. This book acquaints readers with state-of-the-art sequencing technologies, recent developments in computing algorithms, and certain biological perspectives that influence development of bioinformatics tools by giving specific examples from model plant species. The challenge is now to make sense and use of this wealth of data.