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Author:   Sebastian Bassi (Globant, San Francisco, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Chapman & Hall/CRC
Volume:   v. 27
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.839kg
ISBN:  

9781584889298

ISBN 10:   1584889292
Pages:   587
Publication Date:   01 October 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Replaced By:   9781138035263
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

PROGRAMMING Introduction First Steps with Python Basic Programming: Data Types Programming: Flow Control Dealing with Files Code Modularizing Error Handling Introduction to Object Orienting Programming (OOP) Regular Expressions BIOPYTHON Introduction to Biopython ADVANCED TOPICS Web Applications XML Python and Databases Collaborative Development: Version Control PYTHON RECIPES WITH COMMENTED SOURCE CODE Sequence Manipulation in Batch Web Application for Filtering Vector Contamination Searching for PCR Primers Using Primer3 Calculating Melting Temperature from a Set of Primers Filtering out Specific Fields from a Genbank File Converting XML Blast File into HTML Inferring Splicing Sites DNA Mutations with Restrictions Web Server for Multiple Alignment Drawing Marker Positions Using Data Stored in a Database Appendix A: Python and Biopython Installation Appendix B: Selected Papers Appendix C: Included DVD: Virtual Machine Installation and Use Appendix D: Python Language Reference Appendix E: Answers to Odd-Numbered Questions Appendix F: Python Style Guide Index

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The book will be helpful for its intended audience. Numerous code fragments in the book will be beneficial for biologists who are unfamiliar with programming. Readers can try out, test, and modify the code to suit their needs. ... a useful introduction to the topic. The style of presentation is good, and the code samples are worthwhile. ... I strongly recommend this book as a useful reference for computational biologists, programmers, and bioinformatics specialists (students as well as researchers). -Computing Reviews, November 2011

The book will be helpful for its intended audience. Numerous code fragments in the book will be beneficial for biologists who are unfamiliar with programming. Readers can try out, test, and modify the code to suit their needs. ! a useful introduction to the topic. The style of presentation is good, and the code samples are worthwhile. ! I strongly recommend this book as a useful reference for computational biologists, programmers, and bioinformatics specialists (students as well as researchers). --Computing Reviews, November 2011

Author Information

Sebastian Bassi is the leader of the DNALinux bioinformatics distribution and member of the developer team for Biopython. He is currently providing bioinformatics support for the tomato mitochondrial genome sequencing project, which is part of the Latin America Solanaceae Genome Project (LAT-SOL).

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