Perl Books
Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics
Format: Paperback
Author: James Tisdall
ReleaseDate: 15 October, 2001
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
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Beginning Perl for BioInformatics 
The perl programming language is the most versitile and powerful software tool available today. Excellent book. This book was written for Biologists to learn this incredible programming language. Examples are pulled from real problems Biologists face and explained in terms they can understand. The book is clearly written.
excellent introduction...
. i find this book is an excellent intoudction for one of the most intersting topic.The book is so easy to read if you know the elementary of molecular biology and begining introudction about perl. I do recommed this book to start with if you interested about programming for bioinformatics. You will be able to build simple bioinformatics programmes after reading this book as well as you will be able to understand easily how the commerically avaliable bioinformatics programs are working.
So far so good
But I will say that I pretty much used this book as a primary text for my Bioinformatics class. I am only at chapter 5 in this book right now. The author is clear. When a concept is being introduced he focuses on getting you comfortable with the basics, and then introduces exceptions later. I could list a hundred books where an author will list exceptions to the exceptions while first introducing a new concept; leaving a reader quite muddled. Not the case with this elegant book. If you are new to Perl, I strongly recommend this to supplement your current Bioinformatics text. Be Sure to also visit the author's website and download the example programs that you see in the book. It helps to play around with another's code and see what happens when you modify it. Use it while you read about it and you will learn it.
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