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Title: Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis by David W. Mount ISBN: 0-87969-608-7 Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Pub. Date: 15 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.21 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent introduction for biologists
Comment: David Mount did an excellent job introducing bioinformatics to biologists. Without a lot of Mathematics he explains the algorithms used for sequence alignments or phylogenetics, much better than any other book I have seen. Particularly, I found the chapter about Phylogenetic Prediction very helpful, that shows advantages and disadvantages of the numerous phylogenetic analysis programs with a lot of examples and helps the molecular biologist to decide which one to use. Although this book is quiet expensive, I think it is worth every penny!
Rating: 5
Summary: simply the best bioinforomatics book I have encountered
Comment: This is really the best bioinformatics book I have encountered. My bias is that it seems that most of these books are written by computer scientists for computer scientists. This book is written by a biologist for biologists, and focuses on solving biological problems from the point of view of which tools are good for which jobs. This is an excellent introduction into all sorts of tools that you may want to use, from simple BLAST searches to more complex types of evolutionary trees and the like. As a biologist, I have found this book to be a lot of help, and I wish that I had encountered this book a few years ago. Computer scientists may want more mathematical details, and should look to other books. But as a guide for a biologist, this book can't be beat (and I've looked through a dozen or more other bioinformatics books). As you can see, I can't say enough about this book. If you're a biologist, get this book, and you'll see.
Rating: 1
Summary: Horrible. A lot better books should be available nowadays
Comment: In short, the author does not have enough writing skill to write this text book.
I purchased this book a while ago. At that time, the book was really difficult to read. I thought that it is because I do not have enough knowledge to understand the material. So I stopped reading this book and studied bioinformatics by other means.
After gaining enough knowledge in bioinformatics, I re-opened this book, and it is funny to find that I still have the same amount of difficulty in understanding what the author wrote about topics that I have already built good understanding. Reading this book will only deteriorate one's understanding.
Several years ago, only just a few books were available on the market, so one needed to purchase this book. These days, there are lots of varieties to choose, and any choice is likely to be better than this book.
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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: Biological Sequence Analysis : Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids by Richard Durbin, Sean R. Eddy, Anders Krogh, Graeme Mitchison ISBN: 0521629713 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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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: Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics by Warren J. Ewens, Gregory R. Grant ISBN: 0387952292 Publisher: Springer Verlag Pub. Date: 20 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $84.95 |
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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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