Bioinformatics for Beginners: Genes, Genomes, Molecular Evolution, Databases and Analytical Tools 1st edition by Choudhuri, Supratim (2014) Hardcover

by Supratim Choudhuri

"Bioinformatics for Beginners" provides a coherent and friendly treatment of bioinformatics for any student or scientist within biology who has not routinely performed bioinformatic analysis.The book discusses relevant principles needed to understand the theoretical underpinnings of bioinformatic analysis, and demonstrates with examples targeted analysis using freely available web-based software and publicly available databases. Eschewing non-essential information, the work focuses on principles and hands-on analysis and points to many further study options.Avoids non-essential coverage yet fully describes the field for beginners - in approximately 200 pages of textExplains the molecular basis of evolution to place bioinformatic analysis in biological contextProvides useful links to the vast resource of publicly available bioinformatic databases and analysis toolsOver 100 figures aid in concept discovery and illustration "

Genres: Biology

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[P · Rating 1 out of 5]

Though informative, even as a biotechnologist, just the very first chapter puts me to sleep. And this is coming from someone who loves molecular biology. Please make biology sound like biology instead of you know, a scientific journal text. And for a beginner, shouldn't you make biology be understandable at layman's terms? Disappointing. And I didn't even get to the bioinformatics part yet. :(

[Miguel · Rating 5 out of 5]

From the back:
"Avoid non-essential coverage yet fully describes the field for beginners - in approximately 200 pages of text"

Is exactly what I got. The book gives a high level overview of the history, current problems, and future considerations for the reader. I'm a seasoned Computer Scientist but haven't done Bio in some time and this book got me up to speed and looks at the problems through a CS lens which is exactly what I wanted.