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Title: Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills by Cynthia Gibas, Per Jambeck ISBN: 1-56592-664-1 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.38 (29 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: ok, but some glaring errors
Comment: I too was eagerly looking forward to this book , and by the time I finished it, I asked myself , "Isn't there more?". I would say this book tries to be too many things for too many people. If you are a biologist and have little/no experience with programming, especially in a Unix/Linux environment this would offer a fairly concise but maybe too brief intro to bioinformatics. THere are some nice chapters on how to setup a Linux system and learning some basic commands , but there are other O'reilly books to help with that (Learning the unix operating system comes to mind). On the other hand, for a computer programmer/IT person, if you were sharp and could stand to wade through some of the references the author suggests for learning more about molecular biology, you could probably apply what you learn in this book pretty well. Perhaps they should have named this Intro to Bioinformatics skills. However, there are some glaring errors in the book, most notably in the intro chapters to molecular biology, esp. the diagrams for how DNA is converted into RNA and is in turn translated into a polypeptide. I hope the authors have corrected this by the next printing. ... ... ... There is a vast and thriving unix community developing tools that are as good or better than any Windows based tools out there, plus they're free ! Most of the bioinformatics firms I know of use Linux/Unix , so that ... ...
Rating: 4
Summary: Good introduction, somewhat uneven
Comment: This book is a good introduction to Bioinformatics and to what it takes to get started in the field. Some reviewers deride it as too superficial or as too Unix-centric, but I think those are two of its strengths. The authors lay no claim to having written the definitive work on the subject of Bioinformatics, and they freely admit that they come in with a certain bias. If you are serious about Bioinformatics this won't be your last book anyway, but it'll get you started.
That said, I found the material a bit uneven. The authors tend to jump from almost trivial stuff to very complex in a heartbeat, and they sometimes use a concept or command before it can be properly understood One example: Introducing the Unix commands head and tail, then moving on to split and csplit. The introduction to regular expressions as needed by csplit follows a few pages later.
Nevertheless, I plan to use this book as a companion text to my own sequence of computer classes for biologists, and I think it will serve that purpose very well.
Rating: 3
Summary: Useful only for a reference book
Comment: We are all well aware that it is impossible to write a book on bioinformatics satisfying all types of readers. That is the reason why we are spending much time on finding a book that we can say "This book is just for me!"
Well, this book is not a self-teaching book by itself. Don't expect that things will become clear to understand after reading this book.
If your expectation is just to taste flavor of bioinformatics and to use it as a reference book, then this book is right for you.
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Title: Bioinformatics for Dummies by Jean-Michel Claverie, Cedric Notredame ISBN: 0764516965 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 15 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics by James Tisdall ISBN: 0596000804 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis by David W. Mount ISBN: 0879696087 Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Pub. Date: 15 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics by James D. Tisdall ISBN: 0596003072 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Bioinformatics Computing by Bryan Bergeron ISBN: 0131008250 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 19 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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