COMPARATIVE GENOMICS ANALYSIS OF GROWTH HORMONE (GH), INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR 1 (IGF-1) AND MYOSTATIN (MSTN) GENE SEQUENCES IN CHICKEN, RABBIT AND SHEEP
CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION Bioinformatics is the science of storing, extracting, organizing, analyzing, interpreting and utilizing information from biological sequences and molecules (Khalid, 2010). Bioinformatics is often defined as the application of computational techniques to understand and organize the information associated with biological macro-molecules (Luscombe et al., 2001). It has been mainly fueled by advances in DNA sequencing and mapping techniques (Khalid, 2010). Over the past few decades, rapid developments ...
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