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Title: Bioinformatics for Dummies by Jean-Michel Claverie, Cedric Notredame ISBN: 0-7645-1696-5 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 15 January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Bioinformatics for Dummies by J.M. Claverie & C. Notredame
Comment: "Bioinformatics for Dummies" is an excellent resource. It is clear, easy to read, well organized and illustrated. I was particularly pleased by the colloquial tone of the writing: in addition to being informative, it was fun to read!
As a scientist who spends at least half of my time BLASTing, I also read it for accuracy and found it to almost error-free (any errors were in the figures). Additionally, most of the web pages were up-to-date, although as time passes the links will decay and web pages will change their look. In addition, the book contained enough in-depth content to teach me several new tricks of the trade.
Further, I believe the book had sufficient background material to educate the novice. To test this, I gave the manual to a material science chemist and he was able to understand the material, at least until he decided it was more than he wanted to know and quit reading.
This is a useful text for those who want to know more than an operational definition of bioinformatics and a must for the library of all bioinformatics users.
Rating: 5
Summary: Walking amongst Dummys
Comment: I'm glad I bought this book and I will continue to refer to it. The remit of the Dummies series is to provide a guide to its subject matter without any great fuss. The text focuses on practical techniques without unnecessary diversion into the detail of molecular biology or computer science. In this respect it would have been a difficult book to author, readers having come from one discipline or the other. I agree with previous reviewers that this is well worth reading before doing a bioinformatics course or degree. Bioinformatics is a new field, and this book has delivered a useful introduction to it without recourse to expensive textbooks full of unreadable filler.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great resource for teachers too!
Comment: I have used databases before (mostly NCBI, TIGR and SWISS PROT) and yet, this book (presumably for dummies) has shown me so much more(which say a lot about me)! It is accurate and gives good step by step guide to how to perform many tasks - from how to find a gene to using the analysis tools and to exploring some of the newer features of these databases - and the areas like you have never looked into before.
It is a well-researched book and the authors are clearly knowledgeable in this area.
Even though I have been for a 4-day bioinformatics course (6 months ago), which I thought was pretty good, this book still had so much to offer. Using this book, I was easily able to substitute the proteins of my interest into their examples and generated meaningful hits.
The book also covers deeper and more advanced features of BLAST, discusses sequence alignments using several types of algorithm and even has a section on 3D structures. Towards the end of book - it features a section on working with mRNA and building phylogenetics trees - which again are excellent resources for teachers involved in teaching beginners molecular biology.
I am a teacher teaching at a Pre-unversity level. The way the book is structured also lends its material to be modified into lesson materials for training students.
It is really a great book! Worth every dollar I spent on it!
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Title: Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills by Cynthia Gibas, Per Jambeck ISBN: 1565926641 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Bioinformatics Computing by Bryan Bergeron ISBN: 0131008250 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 19 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Introduction to Bioinformatics by Arthur M. Lesk ISBN: 0199251967 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $37.00 |
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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: BLAST by Ian Korf, Mark Yandell, Joseph Bedell ISBN: 0596002998 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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