Essentials of Bioinformatics, Volume III

Proteoinformatic and Agricultural biotechnology research: Applications and challenges.- Impact of Bioinformatics on Plant Science Research and Crop Improvement.- Bioinformatics and Plant Stress Management.- Integration of 'Omics' Approaches to Unravel the Heavy Metal Tolerance in Plants.- Advanced Multivariated Bioinformatic Approaches in Agricultural Studies.- Data measurement, data redundancy and their biological relevance.- Metabolomic approaches in plant research.- Bioinformatics and Medicinal Plant Research: Current Scenario.- Experimental approaches for genome sequencing.- Phylogenetic trees: Applications, Construction and Assessment .- Index.

Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD is Associate Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. After completing his doctorate (Botany; specialization in Plant Eco-physiology and Molecular Biology) from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India, in 2011, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, for a short period. Later, he joined Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia, and worked there as Post Doctorate Fellow in 2012 and Fellow Researcher (Associate Prof.) from 2013 to 2016. Dr. Hakeem has more than 10 years of teaching About the Editors and research experience in plant eco-physiology, biotechnology and molecular biology, medicinal plant research, plant-microbe-soil interactions as well as in environmental studies. He is the recipient of several fellowships at both national and international levels; also, he has served as the visiting scientist at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Currently, he is involved with a number of internationalresearch projects with different government organizations.

So far, Dr. Hakeem has authored and edited more than 35 books with international publishers, including Springer Nature, Academic Press (Elsevier), and CRC Press. He also has to his credit more than 80 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals and 55 book chapters in edited volumes with international publishers. At present, Dr. Hakeem serves as an editorial board member and reviewer of several high-impact international scientific journals from Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, Cambridge, and John Wiley Publishers. He is included in the advisory board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. He is also a fellow of Plantae group of the American Society of Plant Biologists, member of the World Academy of Sciences, member of the International Society for Development and Sustainability, Japan, and member of Asian Federation of Biotechnology, Korea. Dr. Hakeem has been listed inMarquis Who's Who