An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms (Computational Molecular Biology) Illustrated Edition

It's ironic that a new field like bioinformatics rarely offers any way for newcomers to feel welcome. Bioinformatics is maturing, and this book is that welcome.It's written as a textbook for a Bioinformatics 101 course, the kind that has both computing and biology students in it. Historically, the two have lived in uneasy truce. The biologists thought that a 'database' was an enzyme that acted on 'datab'. The programmers would, in the authors' words, "spontaneously abort" at the chemistry and informality of biology. Maybe that's less true now, but the authors offer just enough computing basics for the biologists and just enough biology for the computer crowd to be able to discuss the same thing.After that intro, the authors cover many of the classic problems in bioinformatics, including assembly, motif-finding, clustering, HMMs, dynamic programming, and even mass spec analysis. The style is very readable, and discusses both the biology and the computation of every topic presented. Many algorithms are built up in steps, showing how successive insights from both computation and biology can make existing techniques work better. Along the way, they offer biographical notes about the founders and luminaries of modern biological computation.This is a great first book for anyone wanting to enter the field, from either a biology or a computer science background. Advanced students will bottom out quickly, and may lose patience with the informal and gently-paced discussion. Sorry, this book was never meant for them. It's a beginner's book, one that respects the intelligence and capability of its reader. It's broad, basic, and detailed enough that modest programming skill will yield working code. This book has my highest recommendation.//wiredweird

Great book which is perfect for the students, whose major is either mathematics or computer science. Nice biology intro in the beginning and in the section 8: "Graph Algorithms".Accurate approach for all the algorithms and theorems, as well as their proofs, keeps an interested reader focused during the whole time of reading. I must admit that all that mathematical parts contain nice off-topics, which help to understand the applications of the described methods and technics. The fact that the book was written by several different authors plays it's strengths. Each author is a pro in the described area, so he or she describes the basics in the both most easy and understandable ways.Special paragraph has to be written for the special sections after each chapter in the book: Exercises! The best way to learn and understand something is to program it, use it, or analyse it. All of the described above can be found in those exercise sections. Difficulty of the tasks out there vary from easy to extremely difficult ones. The number of tasks that are required to be solved for the best understanding is very individual.All in all this is one of the books the must be on "must have" list of every student who wants to become a scientist in a bioinformatics field.

This book does exactly what it set out to do - provide an introduction to bioinformatics. It provides not only simple explanations for some of the common algorithms, but in some cases more deeper mathematics behind the algorithm. The illustrations work for what they are trying to portray, the chapters are organized well taking the reader from the basics of molecular biology and dynamic programming to some more of the advanced concepts such as in hidden markov model. I also enjoyed the sections talking about some of the influential scientists in bioinformatics.All in all a great introductory book.

I find this book well-written and friendly to people who have not been exposed to algorithmic ideas. Biologists who are keen to understand algorithms that underpin all bioinformatics softwares will get a good dose of confidence after reading this book. To get the best out of this book a reader should test the algorithms explained in the book using a familiar programming language. Experienced people looking to "level-up" their expertise are likely to be disappointed - this is definitely a book for beginner / intermediate level folks.

Este livro é excelente por várias razões. Entre elas posso citar o fato de estar totalmente voltado ao aprendizado por exemplos, sempre de forma a relacionar um problema computacional com um problema em bioinformática. É um livro muito abrangente, cobre muito bem os tópicos relacionados a alinhamentos e comparações de sequências. Seu capítulo sobre Algoritmos com Grafos é o meu preferido. O autor consegue passar as noções fundamentais com muita simplicidade, de forma que qualquer pessoa possa aprender num ritmo bem rápido.

…there is no website that contains actual software!After all this is a bioinformatics book, I would expect something like a CD in the back or a website.Other than that, it's a good book in bioinformatics.

This book gives a broad overview of algorithmic methods used in bioinformatics. It is well writen and the mathematics needed to understand is undergraduate level. Reading this book makes appetite to apply these methods to problems or to dig deeper in the corresponding method.Overall, a very good book, and due to its introductory level, one can recommend to all people interested in bioinformatics from all disciplines.

Works great for a developer trying to learn the science behind bioinformatics, or a biologist trying to learn the coding. Switches every other chapter, one chapter on development, the next on science, which works well.

This is an Indian only edition which is not legal to be sold in the UK. Pictures printed in the book are of bad quality.

Ich habe schon oft über Bioinformatik gehört wusste aber nicht genau welches Problem mit welchen Methoden damit angegangen wird. Um diese Bildungslücke zu schließen habe ich mir dieses Buch gekauft. Es war ein Glücksgriff. Die Autoren sind kompetent und sie können vor allem sehr gut erklären. Sie haben auch den Mut den Spreu vom Weizen zu trennen. Sie leiden nicht am sehr häufigen und das gibts, und das auch noch Syndrom. Sie wählen vielmehr die relevanten Methoden aus und erklären sie gründlich. Besonders gefallen hat mir das Kapitel über Dynamic-Programming. Es ist die mit Abstand beste Erklärung dieser Methode die mir bisher untergekommen ist. Die behandelten Methoden sind - in der Endausbaustufe - dann gar nicht mehr so elementar. Enpassant lernt man auch ein bisserl Biologie, genaugenommen DNA-Forschung. Als Büchernarr leide ich, dass heute soviel Schrott geschrieben wird und man speziell in einem Gebiet in dem man keine Ahnung hat sich diesen Schrott auch noch kauft. Umso mehr freut es dann einem, wenn man auf ein schönes, sorgfältig und gut gemachtes Buch trifft.

Non è semplice stargli dietro senza una minima base di informatica, tuttavia è tutto ben spiegato e non serve una conoscenza incredibile dell'inglese.Consigliato.

consegnato anche prima del previsto e prodotto conforme alle descrizioni

Le livre était en très bonne état à l'arrivé. il est arrivée dans les délais mais j'ai malheureusement été contraint à payer une somme de 27,19 euros à la livraison, correspondant aux frais de la douane Belge. chose qui n'était pas indiquée au moment de l'achat.