Computational Biology: A Hypertextbook (ASM Books) - Softcover

Kelley and Didulo have weaponized bioinformatic education! As an undergraduate educator I am always looking for tools to help make the basic tenants of sequence data analysis understandable, and here it is! From standard BLAST to RNA structural alignments and probability analysis, this is a resource that every student of microbiome and molecular analysis should have. The balance between book and online material is well done, providing a framework to develop skills that a student can build upon. -Jack Gilbert, Faculty Director, The Microbiome Center; Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago; Group Leader in Microbial Ecology, Argonne National Laboratory

An introduction to the world of bioinformatics.

Massive increases in computing power and the ability to routinely sequence whole genomes of living organisms have begun to fundamentally alter our understanding of biology, medicine, and agriculture. At the intersection of the growing information and genomics revolutions sits bioinformatics, which uses modern computational power to reveal patterns in biological data sets, especially DNA, RNA, and protein sequences.

Computational Biology: A Hypertextbook, by Scott Kelley and Dennis Didulo, provides a wonderful introduction for anyone who wants to learn the basics of bioinformatics. This book is more than a textbook because of the wealth of online ancillary materials and how the print and electronic components are integrated to form a complete educational resource.