Python for Bioinformatics
Python for Bioinformatics
Article Type: Book reports From: Kybernetes, Volume 39, Issue 8
Sebastian BassiCRC PressNew York, NYJanuary 2010587 pp. (softcover)ISBN 978-1-58488-929-8$55.96/£35.99 (contact: www.crepress.com for current price)
Keywords: Cybernetics, Computers, Programming languages
The author from the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Bernal, Argentina has written this book so that he believes readers will require no previous knowledge of programming-related concepts. It is structured to introduce the Python computer language which is recognised as being powerful yet comparatively easy-to-use. Potential readers will wish to appreciate that this volume uses real-world biological problems as its application area. It benefits from the provision of the working code used to solve such example problems and also includes a DVD with a “ready to run” virtual machine based in DNALineux to test the code.
C.J.H. MannBook Reviews and Reports Section EditorNorbert Wiener Institute, Bangor, UKBangor University, Bangor, UK
