Full Description
This book is intended as a practical and accessible introduction for those who are new to the field of viral infectious diseases and bioinformatics. It is designed for students, early-career researchers, and anyone looking to explore these topics from the ground up. The book covers basic scientific concepts and provides an overview of the epidemiological aspects of viruses, with a focus on simple analytical methods used to study viruses and viral diseases in the context of public health and computational biology. It introduces fundamental informatics tools for virus research, including software tools and databases, while also covering basic theory, algorithms, and applications in viroinformatics and computational virology. Key topics include the virus life cycle, virus evolution, virus-host interactions, and emerging viral diseases.
Contents
A. The Nature of Viruses.- 1. The Structure of Viruses.- 2. Classification of Viruses.- 3. The Life Cycle and the Evolution of Viruses.- B. Viral Infectious Disease.- 1. Emerging and Reemerging Viral Diseases.- 2. Interactions of Viruses with their Hosts.- 3. Cross-Species Viral Infections: Viral Zoonoses and Animal Reservoirs.- C. Prevention and Control of Viral infection.- 1. The Epidemiology of Viral Diseases: Endemic, Epidemic, and Pandemic.- 2. Prevention and Control Measures for Viral Infections: Public Health Interventions.- 3. Vaccination and Herd Immunity: Computational immunology and Vaccine informatics.- C. Viroinformatics and Computational Virology: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications.- 1. Basic Informatics for Virus Research: Software Tools and Databases.- 2. Analytical Methods for Origin and Evolution of Viruses.- 3. Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning Algorithms.
