Powerful, flexible, and easy to use, Python is an ideal language for building software tools and applications for life science research and development. This unique book shows you how to program with Python, using code examples taken directly from bioinformatics. In a short time, you'll be using sophisticated techniques and Python modules that are particularly effective for bioinformatics programming.

Bioinformatics Programming Using Python is perfect for anyone involved with bioinformatics -- researchers, support staff, students, and software developers interested in writing bioinformatics applications. You'll find it useful whether you already use Python, write code in another language, or have no programming experience at all. It's an excellent self-instruction tool, as well as a handy reference when facing the challenges of real-life programming tasks.

• Become familiar with Python's fundamentals, including ways to develop simple applications

• Learn how to use Python modules for pattern matching, structured text processing, online data retrieval, and database access

• Discover generalized patterns that cover a large proportion of how Python code is used in bioinformatics

• Learn how to apply the principles and techniques of object-oriented programming

• Benefit from the "tips and traps" section in each chapter

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

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Elegant guide that is desperately needed - 2010-01-07
Reviewer Rating:
The bioinformatics world badly needs this thorough and elegant guide
that applies Python's marvelously rich facilities to the domain of
biology.

A very good Book..!! - 2010-01-06
Reviewer Rating:
This book is really a great one for Bioinformatics programming. It is very easy to understand and very good examples are given in the book that are related to biological data. The content of the book is very well organized. All the topics are very well covered and explained. The biggest plus point of this book is that examples and data are picked very wisely which is really needed for Bioinformatics readers to understand well and to make their learning process easy and interesting. All the tables and examples, errors one might get while programming, screen shots of data extraction from database are very good and logical. I am sure this book will be admired by all biologists who want to learn Python and those who are familiar with Python and looking for a book to enhance their programing skills for querying Databases, extracting data from HTML, working with XML, URLs, OOL etc, This is the best book as it has covered everything with every single detail with an ease to understand the content. I Think this book will make Bioinformatics programmers life easier..!!

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