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Bioinformatics For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science)) |  | Authors: Jean-Michel Claverie Ph. D., Cedric Notredame Ph.D.
Publisher: For Dummies
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 57015
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 456
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0470089857
Dewey Decimal Number: 570.285
EAN: 9780470089859
ASIN: 0470089857
Publication Date: December 18, 2006
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Were you always curious about biology but were afraid to sit through long hours of dense reading? Did you like the subject when you were in high school but had other plans after you graduated? Now you can explore the human genome and analyze DNA without ever leaving your desktop! Bioinformatics For Dummies is packed with valuable information that introduces you to this exciting new discipline. This easy-to-follow guide leads you step by step through every bioinformatics task that can be done over the Internet. Forget long equations, computer-geek gibberish, and installing bulky programs that slow down your computer. You’ll be amazed at all the things you can accomplish just by logging on and following these trusty directions. You get the tools you need to: - Analyze all types of sequences
- Use all types of databases
- Work with DNA and protein sequences
- Conduct similarity searches
- Build a multiple sequence alignment
- Edit and publish alignments
- Visualize protein 3-D structures
- Construct phylogenetic trees
This up-to-date second edition includes newly created and popular databases and Internet programs as well as multiple new genomes. It provides tips for using servers and places to seek resources to find out about what’s going on in the bioinformatics world. Bioinformatics For Dummies will show you how to get the most out of your PC and the right Web tools so you’ll be searching databases and analyzing sequences like a pro!
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 A great start! April 3, 2009
Alexander Brown (Rhode Island)
Very simple and very well explained, I recommend this book to all who show interest in using bioinformatics as a research tool.
 great reference January 22, 2009
R. Doueiri (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a Phd student in biology, this book offers great reference for bioinformatics in a clear and smooth manner. it explains briefly the concept behind few notions and then shows you how to search, interpret the data you receive. no previous knowledge of bioinformatics is necessary to have this book. the only problem is that several websites either change/close their website or change the application format and it becomes hard to follow the book instructions. however it is a very important tool for researchers.
Good Purchase October 21, 2008
Anup Singh (Milwaukee, WI)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Good concepts for a beginner ad intermediate level. Concepts are clearly explained and are easy to understand.
Overall a Good Book on Bioinformatics October 5, 2008
Maxim
This is overall a good book on bioinformatics. If you like the Dummy series, you will like this book. It's more thorough on the biology side of bioinformatics than on the "information" side. However, the concepts are explained in an easy to understand fashion. Worth the price.
Thorough, in-depth introduction. The "for dummies" is misleading August 6, 2008
Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States(cashbacher@yahoo.com))
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Many people are derisive about the "for Dummies" series, believing them to be too simplistic and sometimes even an insult to their intelligence. That can hardly apply to this book, as there is nothing "dummy" about it. You need a significant background in biology and chemistry in order to understand most of it. You need to understand the amino acid structure of proteins, the structure of DNA and many fundamental principles of data analysis. Some knowledge of the structure and operations of databases is also needed. The authors include a large number of web sites containing additional information and that can run analyses.
The coverage is so thorough and detailed that this is the only "for dummies" book that I have seen that could honestly be recommended as a college text. And not just at the freshman level either.
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