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Computational Molecular Biology: An Introduction

Book information

Publisher
Wiley
Year
2000
ISBN
9780471872511, 0471872512, 0471872520
Open Library ID
OL7630449M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14637132 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
307\307
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

In general I agree with the two previous reviews.This book is not very good as an introduction. First read some other book such as Setubal and Meidanis, "Introduction to Computational Molecular Biology"; or Krane & Raymer, "Fundamental Concepts of Bioinformatics". These books have more readable narrative and examples.The writing in this book is obtuse. It is written like an advanced abstract math book, not like an ostensibly applied science book. The notation is unnecessarily intricate. Even though it says "Introduction" in the title, there are very few tutorial examples. This is just for mathematicians/computer scientists: no biologist I have ever known would/could read this and really understand the algorithms.This book does, however, have one of the more complete detailed descriptions of various algorithms used for sequence matching, etc. If you have read some other books and are looking for more details on algorithms, then this is your book. But I'm still waiting for THE ultimate Computational Biology book!

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