Building Bioinformatics Solutions 2nd edition

by Conrad Bessant, Darren Oakley, Ian Shadforth

Bioinformatics encompasses a broad and ever-changing range of activities involved with the management and analysis of data from molecular biology experiments. Despite the diversity of activities and applications, the basic methodology and core tools needed to tackle bioinformatics problems is common to many projects. This unique book provides an invaluable introduction to three of the main tools used in the development of bioinformatics software - Perl, R and MySQL - and explains how these can be used together to tackle the complex data-driven challenges that typify modern biology. These industry standard open source tools form the core of many bioinformatics projects, both in academia and industry. The methodologies introduced are platform independent, and all the examples that feature have been tested on Windows, Linux and Mac OS.
Building Bioinformatics Solutions is suitable for graduate students and researchers in the life sciences who wish to automate analyses or create their own databases and web-based tools. No prior knowledge of software development is assumed. Having worked through the book, the reader should have the necessary core skills to develop computational solutions for their specific research programmes. The book will also help the reader overcome the inertia associated with penetrating this field, and provide them with the confidence and understanding required to go on to develop more advanced bioinformatics skills.

Genres: Science, Textbooks

366 pages, Hardcover

First published November 27, 2008

Reviews

[amir · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is very great book for the people who are from biology background and they want to build there background in programming or data banking,so u have to know some programming first like perl and R and then start to read the book,u will be very surprised by the book!I have to add that the authors put all these programming skill in a sequences that you will get how a bioinformatics solution or application that u used on web or on ur desktop structured.

[Paulo Nuin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Never a book got so outdated so fast.

[Anupama Singh · Rating 4 out of 5]

very good book