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Long considered the quintessential molecular biology textbook, for decades Lewin's Genes has provided the most modern presentation to this transformative and dynamic science. Now in its twelfth edition, this classic text continues to lead with new information and cutting-edge developments, covering gene structure, sequencing, organization, and expression. Leading scientists provide revisions and updates in their respective areas of study offering readers current research and relevant information on the rapidly changing subjects in molecular biology. No other text offers a broader understanding of this exciting and vital science or does so with higher quality art and illustrations. Lewin's Genes XII continues to be the clear choice for molecular biology and genetics.
Jocelyn E. Krebs has been a member of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage since 2000. She received her B.A. in Biological Sciences from Bard College in 1991 and her PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California Berkeley in 1997. Her research focuses on the mechanisms by which DNA transactions such as transcription and repair are accomplished in the context of chromatin. Her teaching interests are in Molecular Biology (taught at the undergraduate, graduate, and first-year medical school levels), as well as the Molecular Biology of Cancer.
Elliott S. Goldstein earned his B.S. in Biology from the University of Hartford (Connecticut) and his Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Minnesota, Department of Genetics and Cell Biology. Following this, he was awarded an N.I.H. Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with Dr. Sheldon Penman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Leaving Boston, he joined the faculty at Arizona State University in Tempe, where he is an Associate Professor in the Cellular, Molecular and Biosciences program in the School of Life Sciences, and in the Honors Disciplinary Program. His research interests are in the area of molecular and developmental genetics of early embryogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. In recent years, he has focused on the Drosophila counterparts of the human proto-oncogenes jun and fos. His primary teaching responsibilities are in the undergraduate General Genetics course as well as the graduate level Molecular Genetics course.
Stephen T. Kilpatrick is an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ). He received a B.S. in Biology for Eastern College (now Eastern University) and a PhD from the Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown University. His research an teaching interests are in evolutionary molecular genetics. UPJ is an undergraduate degree-granting campus of the University of Pittsburgh, and Dr. Kilpatrick regularly teaches undergraduate courses in majors introductory biology, genetics, evolution, molecular genetics, and biostatistics. Prior to coauthoring the Second Edition of Lewin's Essential Genes, Dr. Kilpatrick has co-authored the test banks for the first edition and for Lewin's Genes VIII and Genes IX. He has also authored ancillaries and pedagogical materials for several introductory non-majors and majors biology and genetics textbooks.
So far I have noticed the following trend: many books titled Bioinformatics with Perl/Python/Java/R etc end up being introductions into the programming language in question, often only minor code examples are related to bioinformatics.
I think many bioinformaticians of a "certain age" learned in this way: they are often former bench biologists who gave up lab work and taught themselves programming. These days there are undergraduate courses (!), so I imagine more people use textbooks. It's just that I don't know of any, nor have I ever needed to use one.
Most of my sparse experience with bioinformatics came with the necessity to extract some statistics from sequence data. So, most books I can recommend deal with statistical and algorithmic approaches to biological data.
Jones and Pavel are accomplished mathematicians and bioinformaticians. Their work with repeats is a must have reference. Ewens's book will become a classic. He is already a foremost figure in population genetics, both in theory and experiment. Sankoff's book still is the most important reference in sequence aligment. Unfortunatelly, these books are somewhat mind bending. They rely heavily on mathematical concepts. But, as far as I know, bioinformatics theory is indeed mathematically and algorithmically challenging.
I really like Biological Sequence Analysis, Durbin et al. and, although not really bioinformatics-specific, I found Perl Medic, Peter J. Scott made a big difference to my newbie Perl code. For biology text books, I mainly relied on Lewin and Alberts for background during my undergrad.
A few have mentioned this book, but I would still like to emphasize it more in a separate answer. This book covers a lot of topics and on each topic it gives very comprehensive and in-depth review. After 10 years, I still benefit from this book, finding meticulous but invaluable details I have overlooked. This is exceptional among general textbooks on bioinformatics. Some may argue the book is too old, but interestingly, when you read the book, you will find that there are not so many breakthroughs in Bioinformatics in the past 12 years -- many old techniques are still useful till now.
For phylogenetics, I like Felsenstein's 'Inferring phylogenies' much more than the Nei and Kumar book. It's more comprehensive and covered much more and deeper on almost all aspects of phylogenetics. And Li's 'Molecular Evolution' is a better book on this topic than Nei and Kumar.
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Solutions Using R and Bioconductor ( ) is a good text to get to grips with common data processing tasks for microarray and proteomics analysis which covers QC, normalisation, one and two colour array data, and downstream data analysis. It needs an update, some of the example code does not work with more modern BioConductor releases but it is still a useful resource.
Bioconductor Case Studies ( ) focuses less on the specifics of the packages and more on the workflows of common bioinformatics analyses, including GSEA, machine learning, pulling data from remote resources, statistical modelling and visualisation. It also benefits from being a more recent release than it's counterpart above.
R Programming for Bioinformatics ( ) which tells you more about R than you probably ever want to (or care) to know. Whilst it is aimed at a bioinformatics audience it does not skip it's role as a text primarily to teach you how to program in R.
If youre looking for a tome that brings your statistics up to speed instead within the R framework then I have long had a copy of Introductory Statistics With R ( =sollc-gb-20) it's not a long book by any means but will get you used to handling data and applying statistical tests in R.
k-li - unfortunately the Bioinformatics Knowledgeblog site was hacked. The Knowledgeblog team are working to bring it back right now. I notice that you also registered on my blog, I am very sorry but I assumed your sign up was bogus as I had a spate of sign ups today, and your account was deleted.
I a gree a book about technical aspects of bioinformatics, should exist, maybe even in two flavors, "applied data management" and "getting at the bioinformatics data you want", but would you call a statistician someone who happens to know how to write input files to libSVM without knowing what is going on? I think there is a difference between bioinformatics (the science) and informatics applied to biological data (the engineering problem). Just like the difference between computer science and software engineering. So maybe we disagree just on the definition.
I cannot disagree more, bioinformatics needs books with theory and maths because it derives most of its algorithms from probability theory / statistics / random processes / machine learning, information theory, graph theory, formal language theory not to speak of all those description logics and ontologies. No blog post will do that (no single book too).
Understanding how a program works helps us to choose appropriate tools and to avoid pitfalls. By "tools" here, I mean bioinformatics programs such as mappers, multialigners, SNP callers, tree builders and so on.
Marcin, I do understand your point of view. But on my side, I'm mostly interested in the technical aspect of a problem not about a deep knowledge of an algorithm. For example, I don't really know what is the algorithm used by Lucene but I know it's a good tool for indexing a document & I found the best doc for Lucene on the web.
I think you are spot on with your observation. For some reason most of the recent bioinformatics books, particularly the expensive hardcover ones from CRC and Springer, are written by non-practitioners. By non-practitioners I mean professors who teach statistics, biological science or computer science, as opposed to software developers working in the field of bioinformatics. The result has read like a cross-section of stodgy textbooks and research articles, with little in the way of practical code or analysis strategy. Others, as you mention, are "mildly bio-flavored" introductions to a programming language. I love technical books but with a couple exceptions (Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics) I have never felt bioinformatics books were worth the money.
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