Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics - 01 edition

Tisdall, James :

James Tisdall has worked as a musician, as a programmer and member of technical staff at Bell Labs (where he programmed for speech research and discovered a formal language for musical rhythm), as a programmer and systems manager at the Human Genome Project in the Computational Biology and Informatics Laboratory (where he began using Perl for bioinformatics in 1991 with his program DNA WorkBench), as computational biologist at Mercator Genetics in Menlo Park, California (where his Perl programs helped discover the gene involved in the common hereditary disease hemochromatosis), as manager of Bioinformatics at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, and most recently as a consultant for Biocomputing Associates of Kimberton, Pennsylvania, and the Burke Research Institute affiliated with Cornell University, working on neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

"Newcomers to Perl who understand biological information
will find James Tisdall's Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics to be an excellent compendium of examples. Teachers of Perl
will likewise find the text to be filled with fresh programming illustrations of growing scientific importance."

-- Peter Leopold, amazon.com

"Put simply, programming is becoming a critical skill for more and more biologists. James Tisdall's timely Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics will help them gain the specific programming skills they'll need in their day-to-day work?If you're a working biologist, or working on becoming one, Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics will be an invaluable resource -- and we've seen nothing like it."

--Bill Camarda, Barnesandnoble.com, Dec 2001

O'Reilly Publishing Web Site, August, 2002

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