Description
Book SynopsisPresents an introduction to bioinformatics computing skills and practice. This book covers the skills vital to the day-to-day activities of bioinformatician.
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Table of ContentsPreface.
1. Setting the Biological Scene.
2. Setting the Technological Scene.
I: WORKING WITH PERL.
3. The Basics.
4. Places to Put Things.
5. Getting Organised.
6. About Files.
7. Patterns, Patterns and More Patterns.
8. Perl Grabbag.
II: WORKING WITH DATA.
9. Downloading Datasets.
10. The Protein Databank.
11. Non-redundant Datasets.
12. Databases.
13. Databases and Perl.
III: WORKING WITH THE WEB.
14. The Sequence Retrieval System.
15. Web Technologies.
16. Web Automation.
IV: WORKING WITH APPLICATIONS.
17. Tools and Datasets.
18. Applications.
19. Data Visualisation.
20. Introducing Bioperl.
Appendix: A—F.
Index.
