Tisdall, James D.

Beginning perl for bioinformatics / James D. Tisdall. - 1st ed. - Beijing ; Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly, c2001. - xiii, 368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"An introduction to Perl for biologists"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-314) and index.

Biology and Computer Science -- Getting Started with Perl -- The Art of Programming -- Sequences and Strings -- Motifs and Loops -- Subroutines and Bugs -- Mutations and Randomization -- The Genetic Code -- Restriction Maps and Regular Expressions -- GenBank -- Protein Data Bank -- BLAST -- Further Topics -- Resources -- Perl Summary.

This book shows biologists with little or no programming experience how to use Perl, the ideal language for biological data analysis. Each chapter focuses on solving a particular problem or class of problems, so you'll finish the book with a solid understanding of Perl basics, a collection of programs for such tasks as parsing BLAST and GenBank, and the skills to tackle more advanced bioinformatics programming.

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