Molecular Analysis and Genome Discovery

List of Contributors 1. Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics: An Overview (W. Kalow). 2. Quantitative TaqMan Real time PCR: Diagnostic and Scientific Applications (Jorg Dotsch, Ellen Schoof and Wolfgang Rascher). 3. Hybridization Probes for Quantitative PCR (Elaine Lyon). 4. An Overview of Genotyping and Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNP) (Ivo Glynne Gut). 5. High throughput Mutation Screening (Paal Skytt Andersen and Lars Allan Larsen). 6. Determination of Nucleic Acid Sequence by Pyrosequencing (Elaine Elahi and Mostafa Ronaghi). 7. An Introduction to DNA Chips (Magdalena Gabig Ciminska and Andrzej Ciminski). 8. Overview of Microarrays in Genomic Analysis (Janette K Burgess). 9. Overview of Differential Gene Expression by High throughput Analysis (Kin Ying To). 10. Aptamers: Powerful Molecular Tools for Therapeutics and Diagnostics (Eva Baldrich i Rubio, Monica Campas i Homs and Ciara K. O Sullivan). 11. Chip based Proteomics Technology (Mikhail Soloviev, Richard Barry and Jon Terrett). 12. Infectomics Overview: Holistic and Integrative Studies of Infectious Diseases (Sheng He Huang and Ambrose Jong). 13. The Drug Discovery Process (Roberto Solari). 14. Structure based Drug Discovery (Chen Chen Kan, Kevin Hambly and Derek A. Debe). 15. Protein interaction targeted Drug Discovery (Gary Hudes, Sanjay Menon and Erica A. Golemis). 16. Overview of Quantitative Structure activity Relationships (QSAR) (David A. Winkler). Index.