Computing Skills For Biologists

Author : Stefano Allesina
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691182752
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computing Skills for Biologists written by Stefano Allesina and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise introduction to key computing skills for biologists While biological data continues to grow exponentially in size and quality, many of today’s biologists are not trained adequately in the computing skills necessary for leveraging this information deluge. In Computing Skills for Biologists, Stefano Allesina and Madlen Wilmes present a valuable toolbox for the effective analysis of biological data. Based on the authors’ experiences teaching scientific computing at the University of Chicago, this textbook emphasizes the automation of repetitive tasks and the construction of pipelines for data organization, analysis, visualization, and publication. Stressing practice rather than theory, the book’s examples and exercises are drawn from actual biological data and solve cogent problems spanning the entire breadth of biological disciplines, including ecology, genetics, microbiology, and molecular biology. Beginners will benefit from the many examples explained step-by-step, while more seasoned researchers will learn how to combine tools to make biological data analysis robust and reproducible. The book uses free software and code that can be run on any platform. Computing Skills for Biologists is ideal for scientists wanting to improve their technical skills and instructors looking to teach the main computing tools essential for biology research in the twenty-first century. Excellent resource for acquiring comprehensive computing skills Both novice and experienced scientists will increase efficiency by building automated and reproducible pipelines for biological data analysis Code examples based on published data spanning the breadth of biological disciplines Detailed solutions provided for exercises in each chapter Extensive companion website

Author : Stefano Allesina
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069116729X
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computing Skills for Biologists written by Stefano Allesina and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise introduction to key computing skills for biologists While biological data continues to grow exponentially in size and quality, many of today's biologists are not trained adequately in the computing skills necessary for leveraging this information deluge. In Computing Skills for Biologists, Stefano Allesina and Madlen Wilmes present a valuable toolbox for the effective analysis of biological data. Based on the authors' experiences teaching scientific computing at the University of Chicago, this textbook emphasizes the automation of repetitive tasks and the construction of pipelines for data organization, analysis, visualization, and publication. Stressing practice rather than theory, the book's examples and exercises are drawn from actual biological data and solve cogent problems spanning the entire breadth of biological disciplines, including ecology, genetics, microbiology, and molecular biology. Beginners will benefit from the many examples explained step-by-step, while more seasoned researchers will learn how to combine tools to make biological data analysis robust and reproducible. The book uses free software and code that can be run on any platform. Computing Skills for Biologists is ideal for scientists wanting to improve their technical skills and instructors looking to teach the main computing tools essential for biology research in the twenty-first century. Excellent resource for acquiring comprehensive computing skills Both novice and experienced scientists will increase efficiency by building automated and reproducible pipelines for biological data analysis Code examples based on published data spanning the breadth of biological disciplines Detailed solutions provided for exercises in each chapter Extensive companion website

Author : Stefano Allesina
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691183961
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computing Skills for Biologists written by Stefano Allesina and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise introduction to key computing skills for biologists While biological data continues to grow exponentially in size and quality, many of today’s biologists are not trained adequately in the computing skills necessary for leveraging this information deluge. In Computing Skills for Biologists, Stefano Allesina and Madlen Wilmes present a valuable toolbox for the effective analysis of biological data. Based on the authors’ experiences teaching scientific computing at the University of Chicago, this textbook emphasizes the automation of repetitive tasks and the construction of pipelines for data organization, analysis, visualization, and publication. Stressing practice rather than theory, the book’s examples and exercises are drawn from actual biological data and solve cogent problems spanning the entire breadth of biological disciplines, including ecology, genetics, microbiology, and molecular biology. Beginners will benefit from the many examples explained step-by-step, while more seasoned researchers will learn how to combine tools to make biological data analysis robust and reproducible. The book uses free software and code that can be run on any platform. Computing Skills for Biologists is ideal for scientists wanting to improve their technical skills and instructors looking to teach the main computing tools essential for biology research in the twenty-first century. Excellent resource for acquiring comprehensive computing skills Both novice and experienced scientists will increase efficiency by building automated and reproducible pipelines for biological data analysis Code examples based on published data spanning the breadth of biological disciplines Detailed solutions provided for exercises in each chapter Extensive companion website

Author : Cynthia Gibas
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 9781565926646
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills written by Cynthia Gibas and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2001 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical, hands-on guide shows how to develop a structured approach to biological data and the tools needed to analyze it. It's aimed at scientists and students learning computational approaches to biological data, as well as experienced biology researchers starting to use computers to handle data.

Author : Steven H.D. Haddock
Publisher : Sinauer
ISBN 13 : 9780878933914
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practical Computing for Biologists written by Steven H.D. Haddock and published by Sinauer. This book was released on 2011-04-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical Computing for Biologists shows you how to use many freely available computing tools to work more powerfully and effectively. The book was born out of the authors' own experience in developing tools for their research and helping other biologists with their computational problems. Many of the techniques are relevant to molecular bioinformatics but the scope of the book is much broader, covering topics and techniques that are applicable to a range of scientific endeavours. Twenty-two chapters organized into six parts address the following topics (and more; see Contents): • Searching with regular expressions • The Unix command line • Python programming and debugging • Creating and editing graphics • Databases • Performing analyses on remote servers • Working with electronics While the main narrative focuses on Mac OS X, most of the concepts and examples apply to any operating system. Where there are differences for Windows and Linux users, parallel instructions are provided in the margin and in an appendix. The book is designed to be used as a self-guided resource for researchers, a companion book in a course, or as a primary textbook. Practical Computing for Biologists will free you from the most frustrating and time-consuming aspects of data processing so you can focus on the pleasures of scientific inquiry.

Author : Ran Libeskind-Hadas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316061337
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computing for Biologists written by Ran Libeskind-Hadas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computing is revolutionizing the practice of biology. This book, which assumes no prior computing experience, provides students with the tools to write their own Python programs and to understand fundamental concepts in computational biology and bioinformatics. Each major part of the book begins with a compelling biological question, followed by the algorithmic ideas and programming tools necessary to explore it: the origins of pathogenicity are examined using gene finding, the evolutionary history of sex determination systems is studied using sequence alignment, and the origin of modern humans is addressed using phylogenetic methods. In addition to providing general programming skills, this book explores the design of efficient algorithms, simulation, NP-hardness, and the maximum likelihood method, among other key concepts and methods. Easy-to-read and designed to equip students with the skills to write programs for solving a range of biological problems, the book is accompanied by numerous programming exercises, available at www.cs.hmc.edu/CFB.

Author : Vince Buffalo
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1449367518
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bioinformatics Data Skills written by Vince Buffalo and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the data skills necessary for turning large sequencing datasets into reproducible and robust biological findings. With this practical guide, youâ??ll learn how to use freely available open source tools to extract meaning from large complex biological data sets. At no other point in human history has our ability to understand lifeâ??s complexities been so dependent on our skills to work with and analyze data. This intermediate-level book teaches the general computational and data skills you need to analyze biological data. If you have experience with a scripting language like Python, youâ??re ready to get started. Go from handling small problems with messy scripts to tackling large problems with clever methods and tools Process bioinformatics data with powerful Unix pipelines and data tools Learn how to use exploratory data analysis techniques in the R language Use efficient methods to work with genomic range data and range operations Work with common genomics data file formats like FASTA, FASTQ, SAM, and BAM Manage your bioinformatics project with the Git version control system Tackle tedious data processing tasks with with Bash scripts and Makefiles

Author : Stefano Allesina
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691182752
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computing Skills for Biologists written by Stefano Allesina and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise introduction to key computing skills for biologists While biological data continues to grow exponentially in size and quality, many of today’s biologists are not trained adequately in the computing skills necessary for leveraging this information deluge. In Computing Skills for Biologists, Stefano Allesina and Madlen Wilmes present a valuable toolbox for the effective analysis of biological data. Based on the authors’ experiences teaching scientific computing at the University of Chicago, this textbook emphasizes the automation of repetitive tasks and the construction of pipelines for data organization, analysis, visualization, and publication. Stressing practice rather than theory, the book’s examples and exercises are drawn from actual biological data and solve cogent problems spanning the entire breadth of biological disciplines, including ecology, genetics, microbiology, and molecular biology. Beginners will benefit from the many examples explained step-by-step, while more seasoned researchers will learn how to combine tools to make biological data analysis robust and reproducible. The book uses free software and code that can be run on any platform. Computing Skills for Biologists is ideal for scientists wanting to improve their technical skills and instructors looking to teach the main computing tools essential for biology research in the twenty-first century. Excellent resource for acquiring comprehensive computing skills Both novice and experienced scientists will increase efficiency by building automated and reproducible pipelines for biological data analysis Code examples based on published data spanning the breadth of biological disciplines Detailed solutions provided for exercises in each chapter Extensive companion website

Author : Michael Moorhouse
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470026456
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bioinformatics Biocomputing and Perl written by Michael Moorhouse and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bioinformatics, Biocomputing and Perl presents a modern introduction to bioinformatics computing skills and practice. Structuring its presentation around four main areas of study, this book covers the skills vital to the day-to-day activities of today’s bioinformatician. Each chapter contains a series of maxims designed to highlight key points and there are exercises to supplement and cement the introduced material. Working with Perl presents an extended tutorial introduction to programming through Perl, the premier programming technology of the bioinformatics community. Even though no previous programming experience is assumed, completing the tutorial equips the reader with the ability to produce powerful custom programs with ease. Working with Data applies the programming skills acquired to processing a variety of bioinformatics data. In addition to advice on working with important data stores such as the Protein DataBank, SWISS-PROT, EMBL and the GenBank, considerable discussion is devoted to using bioinformatics data to populate relational database systems. The popular MySQL database is used in all examples. Working with the Web presents a discussion of the Web-based technologies that allow the bioinformatics researcher to publish both data and applications on the Internet. Working with Applications shifts gear from creating custom programs to using them. The tools described include Clustal-W, EMBOSS, STRIDE, BLAST and Xmgrace. An introduction to the important Bioperl Project concludes this chapter and rounds off the book.

Author : Fenglou Mao
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781848169241
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Computing Skills for Biologists written by Fenglou Mao and published by World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the most important skills for anyone who wants to do quantitative analysis on biological data, especially for high-throughput omics data. Three topics are covered in this book: (1) Essential knowledge and skills necessary to use a Linux computer; (2) Write programs in Perl, and the use of BioPerl to write bioinformatics Perl programs; (3) Write programs in R, and the use of R to analyze data and generate pictures.