Bioinformatics Programming Using Python

A bioinformatics expert, Model introduces readers to the use of Python to speed up and automate data manipulation tasks encountered in life science research and development. The book emphasizes practical programming and application development, and contains numerous code examples taken directly from bioinformatics. While not going into as much detail about Python's mechanisms as do some other texts, Model introduces advanced features and techniques that are often omitted from entry-level books on Python. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Through many examples and exercises, this book helps simplify bioinformatics programming using Python. It's an ideal guide for biologists who want to learn either basic scripting or substantial programming for various computational tasks, and for programmers who want to learn bioinformatics programming. Bioinformatics Programming with Python can be used as a reference, for self-instruction, or as a companion book to help you through undergraduate courses in computer science, biology, and other life sciences. With the level of detail this book provides, it's also perfect for Professional Master's graduate courses in Bioinformatics.
Bioinformatics -- applying information technology to the molecular biology field -- will be extremely hot in the coming years, and this book helps simplify the process. With this book, biologists will learn how to use basic scripting to simplify their computational tasks, and how to write more substantial programs. It will also help programmers who want to learn more about bioinformatics programming. This book includes lots of examples and exercises.