[BiO BB] Re: Re: [BiO BB] How to write Algorithm

Omica Jain omi_80 at rediffmail.com
Fri Oct 5 05:39:48 EDT 2001


Hi there,

Thanks to everybody who responded regarding my query about writing algorithms. I got a number of responses suggesting a variety of books can somebody suggest me some online resource to get start???? 

Omi
  

On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 Philipp Pagel wrote :
> 	Hi!
> 
> 
> > There is a very nice O'reilly book: Developing 
> Bioinformatics Computer Skills
> 
> I bought it and don't like it at all. I think it's just 
> a compilation of tools 
> found on the Web. None of the concepts is really 
> introduced, no algorithms etc.
> I don't think you can really learn anything from this 
> book.
> 
> 
> My recommendations:
> 
> 1)	David Mount
> 		Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis
> 		Cold Spring Harbour Lab. Press
> 
> 		Very nice if you are coming from the biology side. 
> Very understandable but
> 		not to shallow. This book really teaches you about 
> some of the ideas that
> 		are used for e.g. sequence alignment etc.
> 
> 
> 2)	Dan Gusfield
> 		Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences: Computer 
> Science and
> 		Computational Biology
> 
> 		Great for Computer scientists or as a more in depth 
> reading after 1)
> 
> 
> 
> cu
> 	Philipp
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Philipp Pagel
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