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Bioinformatics: Principles and Applications, compiled by Zhumur Ghosh and Bibekanand Mallick, is published by Oxford University Press. It presents a detailed discussion on silico drug designing and other bio-algorithms like BLAST and FASTA. It discusses applicative and advanced topics like protein modelling, docking, molecular dynamics, biochemical network, and molecular phylogeny, and commercial bioinformatics software modules such as Insight II and GCG. The book offers a multiple-choice question bank at the end, to test the understanding of students. It includes appendices giving a select list of bio-companies in India, bio-databases with their websites, and a glimpse of the emerging research areas in the subject. About Oxford University Press Oxford University Press is a renowned publishing house that develops and publishes high quality textbooks, scholarly works, and academic books for school courses, bilingual dictionaries and also digital materials for both learning and teaching. It is a division of the University of Oxford. The first book was locally published in the year 1912. Some of the books published under their banner are: India’s Ancient Past, Atkins’ Physical Chemistry, Companion to Politics in India, Sociology: Themes and Perspectives, and Common Mistakes at IELTS Advanced …and How to Avoid Them.