Table of Contents
Section I Introduction to bioinformatics and metagenomicsChapter 1: Introduction to bioinformatics in microbial biotechnology
Bisma Rashid, Zaffar Bashir, Bushra Rasool, Ravishankar L.V., Osama Abdalla Abdelshafy Mohamad and Javid Ahmad Parray
Chapter 2: Analysing microbial proteins: bioinformatic approaches for molecular structure and function characterization
Sharmilee Sarkar, Mohit Yadav and Aditya
Chapter 3: Microbial mosaics: understanding ecosystems through short read metagenomics
Kalpana Singh
Chapter 4: Sequencing the unseen: long-read metagenomics and the microbial frontier
Fatemeh Yaghoobizadeh
Chapter 5: Navigating the frontier: computational approaches in antimicrobial
drug discovery
Yahyea Baktiar Laskar and Pranab Behari Mazumder
Section II Computational genomics and epigenomics challenges and opportunities
Chapter 6: Computational genomics: finding out mystery of whole genome
Shripad Mukund Upasani
Chapter 7: Computational epigenomics: challenges and opportunity
Bushra Rasool, M. Vineeth, L.V. Ravishankar, Bisma Rashid, Amit Maurya and Sana Surma
Chapter 8: Decoding the blueprint: an overview of genome sequencing, assembly, and annotation
Kalpana Singh
Chapter 9: Computational approaches to unraveling microbial genomic diversity
Vipul P. Patel, Sharav Desai and Shivani Rothe
Chapter 10: Computational tools and databases of microbes and its bioprospecting for sustainable development
Pundarikaksha Das, Yutika Nath and Ranjan Dutta Kalita
Chapter 11: Computational biology methods and their application to comparative genomics
Rashidin Abdugheni
Section III Structural bioinformatics
Chapter 12: Structural bioinformatics
L.V. Ravishankar, Bushra Rasool, Bisma Rashid, Amit Maurya and Ranbir Singh
Chapter 13: Bridging genomes and structures: the mechanistic role of structural bioinformatics in genomic genetic variation
Asma Nazir, Madiha Farooq, Bisma Farooq and Shahnaz Anjum
Chapter 14: Molecular structure and role of microbial proteins: a delimitation employing bioinformatics techniques
Debanjan Saha, Nayan Jyoti Borah and Afrin Mamud
Chapter 15: Genomic characterization and computational phenotyping of agriculturally important microbes
Ahmed Abdul Haleem Khan
Chapter 16: Revolutionizing metagenomic screening with computational algorithms
Sneha Verma, Anurag Rawat, Nidhi Srivastava and Akash Mishra
Authors
Javid Ahmad Parray Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Environmental Science, Govt. SAM Degree College - Budgam, India.Javid A Parray is currently teaching at the Department of Environmental Science, GDC Eidgah, affiliated to Cluster University, Srinagar. His research interests include ecological and agricultural microbiology, climate change, microbial biotechnology, and environmental microbiomes. He has also done his Post Doctorate Research from the University of Kashmir. Dr Parray was also awarded a Fast Track Young Scientist Project by SERB - DST, GoI New Delhi. Dr Javid was also awarded as "Emerging scientist year Gold Medal� for the year 2018 by Indian Academy of Environmental Science. Dr Parray is the course coordinator for the UG- Programmes for CeC-MOOCS Swayam in Environmental Science. Dr Parray is an expert review member in the field of environmental science in the CSTT, Ministry of Education, GoI New Delhi.
Niraj Singh Department of Microbiology, The Assam Royal Global University, India.Dr Niraj Singh holds a master's degree in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology and completed his PhD in Molecular Microbiology from the Department of M.B.B.T, Tezpur University, Assam India. After completing his Ph.D. Degree, Dr. Niraj Singh started his teaching career at the Department of Botany, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya. India. He currently works at the Department of Microbiology, The Assam Royal Global University, Guwahati, Assam as an Assistant Professor & Coordinator/Head. His current area of research is R. solanacearum bacterial wilt disease in plants, Virulence gene function study of R. solanacearum, and its control in agronomically important crops. He has published quality research articles and book chapters. Dr. Niraj Singh was also awarded the Hayward-Prior Travel Award 2020 for Ralstonia solanacearum wilt research work, the Young Scientist Award, the Young Plant Pathologist Award, and the certificate of appreciation at Gujrat Vigyan Sammelan in 2022.
Wen-Jun Li School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.Wen-Jun Li received his PhD in microbiology from Shenyang Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is currently working as Distinguished Professor in School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China. His research mainly focuses on microbial diversity under those unusual environments, by using culture-dependent and culture-independent methods, as well as mechanisms of extremophilic microbes to adapt those unusual environments. He was awarded the WFCC (The World Federation for Culture Collections) Skerman award for microbial taxonomy in 2007, and other six provincial and ministry level awards for his outstanding research contributions on the field of microbial systematics and microbial ecology. He has successfully trained more than 150 graduate students and postdoc level students in the field of microbial taxonomy and microbial ecology at home and abroad countries.
