Marine Bioinformatics 2021
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 710
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Environmental Analysis; Enzymes; Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; Bioinformatics; Biochemistry; Biotechnology
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Dear colleagues,
Marine bioinformatics refers to the use of computer and networking technologies to gather, store, integrate, analyze, interpret and disseminate data on marine organisms, such as information regarding organism distribution, description, systematic classification, phylogeny and their biomolecular structure and sequence data, along with the functional aspects using marine proteomics and genomics (Vinithkumar, N.V. 2004. Marine Bioinformatics. OSTI Newsletter, Quarterly, Ocean).
“Omics” approaches, accompanied by the associated bioinformatic resources and computational tools for molecular analysis and modeling, are boosting the rapid development of knowledge of the marine environment.
Multi-level approaches based on molecular investigations at genomic, metagenomic, transcriptomic, metatranscriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic levels are essential for the following reasons:
1) for biotechnology, to discover marine resources and further explore key molecular processes involved in their production and action.
2) for ecotoxicology, in the discovery of novel molecular mechanisms of toxicity of chemicals in the environment.
Prof. Dr. Marianne Graber
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- omics approaches
- genomic
- metagenomic
- transcriptomic
- metatranscriptomic
- proteomic
- metabolomic
- biotechnology
- ecotoxicology
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