"... a well-written and organized guide to mining and analyzingboth the mounts of publicly available genetic and protein data aswell as one's own data sets... an excellent reference for awide range of techniques.„ (American Journal of PhysicalAnthropology, May 2005)
“... can be used as a classroom text, a tutorial, or a laboratorybench reference... reinforces concepts that have survived... andincorporates new approaches and algorithms for analyzing genes andproteins.„ (SciTech Book News, Vol. 25, No. 3, September2001)
“... a great book covering the discipline of bioinformatics.... This high quality book will be helpful to many...„ (LabNews, October/November 2001)
“Baxevanis and Ouellette provide a timely update and much newinformation in this important field. Although each chapter has beenrevised and updated, the strengths of the first edition remain. Therange of topics is comprehensive.... Each topic is presented in aneasily accessible style.... An important feature is the frequentdiscussion of the shortcomings and pitfalls.... A surprisingaddition, and one that is also surprisingly lucid, practical andeven entertaining, is the chapter on Perl programming.... It ismost highly recommended for students and for establishedinvestigators alike....„ (Trends in Genetics)
“[it] is a good practical book and many will benefit fromreading it„ (Proteomics, May 25, 2001)
“... beneficial to both beginners and experienced readers... thisbook, written by the top scientists in the field of bioinformatics, is the perfect choice for every molecular biology laboratory„(The Quarterly Review of Biology, March 2002)“A useful introduction to biologists, with a particularly strongintroduction to the tools available from the NCBI."
--Russ B. Altman, MD, PhD, Stanford University Medical Center
Bioinformatics
A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins
von Andreas D. Baxevanis und B. F. Francis Ouellette--Eric Lander from the Foreword
Reviews from the First Edition
„... provides a broad overview of the basic tools for sequenceanalysis ... For biologists approaching this subject for the firsttime, it will be a very useful handbook to keep on the shelf afterthe first reading, close to the computer.“
--Nature Structural Biology
„... should be in the personal library of any biologist who usesthe Internet for the analysis of DNA and protein sequencedata.“
--Science
„... a wonderful primer designed to navigate the novice throughthe intricacies of in scripto analysis ... The accomplished genesearcher will also find this book a useful addition to theirlibrary ... an excellent reference to the principles ofbioinformatics.“
--Trends in Biochemical Sciences
This new edition of the highly successful Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteinsprovides a sound foundation of basic concepts, with practicaldiscussions and comparisons of both computational tools anddatabases relevant to biological research.
Equipping biologists with the modern tools necessary to solvepractical problems in sequence data analysis, the Second Editioncovers the broad spectrum of topics in bioinformatics, ranging fromInternet concepts to predictive algorithms used on sequence, structure, and expression data. With chapters written by experts inthe field, this up-to-date reference thoroughly covers vitalconcepts and is appropriate for both the novice and the experiencedpractitioner. Written in clear, simple language, the book isaccessible to users without an advanced mathematical or computerscience background. This new edition includes:
* All new end-of-chapter Web resources, bibliographies, andproblem sets
* Accompanying Web site containing the answers to the problems, as well as links to relevant Web resources
* New coverage of comparative genomics, large-scale genomeanalysis, sequence assembly, and expressed sequence tags
* A glossary of commonly used terms in bioinformatics andgenomics
Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genesand Proteins, Second Edition is essential reading forresearchers, instructors, and students of all levels in molecularbiology and bioinformatics, as well as for investigators involvedin genomics, positional cloning, clinical research, andcomputational biology.
