which turtorials should i learn?

[alex smith]

hi, i am a self-taught programmer, and i am interesting of synbio now, its like another programming to me. so i want to taught myself that too

the problem is i havnt learned a deep bio knowledges when i was in school decades ago (i am a Liberal Arts student)  i think i am lack of too many

basic knowledges, can you recommend some books or turtorials to me?

[Nathan McCorkle]

1. Keep coming back to this group and ask as many questions as you can think of!

2. Read up as much of this until you get sick, then ask more
questions, then repeat:
http://diyhpl.us/wiki/diybio/faq/books/
http://diyhpl.us/wiki/diybio/faq/educational/

3. meet local people if you can, face to face conversation can aid
communication since its inherently multi-media
http://diyhpl.us/wiki/diybio/groups/


There are lot's of different biology computer applications, it depends
on the specific sub-field. You mention synBio, but even in that
sub-field there are many different problems that have completely
different algorithms and purpose. There is CAD for DNA parts,
sequencing assembly, protein folding prediction, gene functional
analysis, physical modelling/simulations.

Read up some stuff and get back to us with what you think about it,
there are lots of people here from different fields, so lots of
potential inspiration.

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[Mega [Andreas Stuermer]]

Hi Alex!

You're kind of right, it is programming life.

Depending on where you live you can even (legally) do some basic experiments in your garage.

[Yunfan Jiang]

thanks for the helpful links,i am worried about most my question would bored you when i got lack of basic knowledges, will come back asking after i learnet those.

and it seems there arent any local people at my location, i am in china :[

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[Yunfan Jiang]

yes, i am tired of making useless websites or apps which cant improve the real life

2013/12/7 Mega [Andreas Stuermer] <masters...@gmail.com>

Hi Alex!

You're kind of right, it is programming life.

Depending on where you live you can even (legally) do some basic experiments in your garage.

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[Tom Hodder]

On 8 December 2013 03:24, Yunfan Jiang <jyf...@gmail.com> wrote:

yes, i am tired of making useless websites or apps which cant improve the real life

I feel the same.

That was my motivation from crossing over from IT infrastructure work to biotech, or maybe trying to combine the two fields of biotech and infrastructure management apps....

[Mega [Andreas Stuermer]]

thanks for the helpful links,i am worried about most my question would bored you when i got lack of basic knowledges, will come back asking after i learnet those.

Never getting tired of biology :D

 

and it seems there arent any local people at my location, i am in china :[

There surely are interested people... Just gotta find them, and maybe start a community lab. 

[obicke]

The best resource I have come across for the basic biology is the EdX course called "Secrets of Life".

https://www.edx.org/course/mitx/mitx-7-00x-introduction-biology-secret-1014

[Ricardy Ricot]

You could watch this series of biology videos from MIT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnpCMgtDPgk&list=SPF83B8D8C87426E44

You could read this ebook about genetics: http://gene.bio.jhu.edu/bm2whole.pdf (might be a tad advanced for beginners. I don't know your level)

You will also need a good grasp of organic chemistry and of biochemistry

[Gaurav Gyanwali]

I agree