The Roles of Bioinformatics on Plant Genomics Research
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 3777
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bioinformatics; genomics; transcriptome analysis; microbiome
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Bioinformatics tools can streamline entire data analysis processes including read quantification, pathways analysis, and gene annotation in genomics or may determine putative protein structures in proteomics. Such bioinformatics tools can also solve rather specific challenges, e.g., detection of certain types of repetitive elements or promoter analysis.
In the last few years, there has been a shift towards cloud-based resources and strategies where different software can be combined within one platform to install and update bioinformatics tools, e.g., bioconda, and, therefore, to share knowledge between different computational laboratories. Typically, the infrastructure is provided by one or several institutes allowing experimental labs to make use of these resources.
For this Special Issue, we encourage studies that review currently available tools for the analysis of plant-centric datasets such as genomics or transcriptomics when enabled by novel strategies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Galaxy, and web services along with bioinformatics pipelines that make use of either open-source software. Articles that fit into this Special Issue could, e.g., illustrate guidelines of currently available web services to use or efficient strategies with novel techniques to tackle challenges in plant-centric genomics or proteomics analysis.
Dr. Thomas Nussbaumer
Dr. Arun Seetharam
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- system biology
- bioinformatics
- functional genomics
- cell signaling
- functional prediction
- protein–protein interactions
- comparative genomics
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