Genomic Data Resources and Data Mining

Abstract

Genome is considered as the carrier of hereditary information and the operative system of an organism. The genomic data are in the form of sequentially arranged nucleotide base pairs. The data mining of genome resources is chiefly based on computational tools acknowledged as computational genome annotation. The computational genome annotation may be either structural or functional. The structural annotation refers to the identification of hypothetical genes in a DNA sequence using computational algorithms, while the functional annotation is assigned as the functions to the predicted genes using sequence similarity searches against other genes of known function. The aim of this chapter is to focus on the genomic resources and mining of genomic databases using the computational tools.