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Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills
About this book
Concise, practical and useful - computing for Biologists.....
Extracts from the book: "Bioinformatics is the science of using information to understand biology; it's the tool we can use to help us answer these questions and many others like them.
Unfortunately, with all the hype about mapping the human genome, bioinformatics has achieved buzzword status; the term is being used in a number of ways, depending on who is using it. Strictly speaking, bioinformatics is a subset of the larger field of computational biology , the application of quantitative analytical techniques in modeling biological systems.
In this book, we stray from bioinformatics into computational biology and back again. The distinctions between the two aren't important for our purpose here, which is to cover a range of tools and techniques we believe are critical for molecular biologists who want to understand and apply the basic computational t