So far I have noticed the following trend: many books titled Bioinformatics with Perl/Python/Java/R etc end up being introductions into the programming language in question, often only minor code examples are related to bioinformatics.
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I cannot disagree more, bioinformatics needs books with theory and maths because it derives most of its algorithms from probability theory / statistics / random processes / machine learning, information theory, graph theory, formal language theory not to speak of all those description logics and ontologies. No blog post will do that (no single book too).
I think you are spot on with your observation. For some reason most of the recent bioinformatics books, particularly the expensive hardcover ones from CRC and Springer, are written by non-practitioners. By non-practitioners I mean professors who teach statistics, biological science or computer science, as opposed to software developers working in the field of bioinformatics. The result has read like a cross-section of stodgy textbooks and research articles, with little in the way of practical code or analysis strategy. Others, as you mention, are "mildly bio-flavored" introductions to a programming language. I love technical books but with a couple exceptions (Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics) I have never felt bioinformatics books were worth the money.
I've learnt pretty much everything from doing, i.e. programming, and rely heavily on online resources. There have been occasional programming books that I've used to bootstrap learning about a language (especially if it was a major leap, say from procedural to object-oriented languages, or from standalone application programming to web scripting). Of the bioinformatics books mentioned so far, Durbin et al., Biological Sequence Analysis was the book I got the most out of, especially the section on RNA secondary structure, which I was obsessed with for a time. Good description of the problem, algorithms clearly explained, and pseudocode. Great stuff.
'Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids' by Durbin, Eddy and Kroghand its accompanying solution manual as suggested by few, by Mark Borodovsky and Svetlana Ekisheva
I would like to recommend the following books Introduction to Bioinformatics 3rd Edition . It is an excellent guide for the newcomer to the world of large-scale genomic data. It is my opinion that you can end your search here for an entry point to the modern field of bioinformatics. It's organized around tools of the trade rather than grandiose theory (systems biology discussions left off till the last chapter), and will serve better as a introduction for undergraduates or researchers new to the field than a reference book for experts. It's biggest perk is the lucidness of discussion and readability.
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Deterministic algorithms solve the problem with a predefined process whereas non-deterministic algorithm must perform guesses of best solution at each step through the use of heuristics.Classification by design paradigm
This introductory text offers a clear exposition of the algorithmic principles driving advances in bioinformatics. Accessible to students in both biology and computer science, it strikes a unique balance between rigorous mathematics and practical techniques, emphasizing the ideas underlying algorithms rather than offering a collection of apparently unrelated problems. The book introduces biological and algorithmic ideas together, linking issues in computer science to biology and thus capturing the interest of students in both subjects. It demonstrates that relatively few design techniques can be used to solve a large number of practical problems in biology, and presents this material intuitively. An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms is one of the first books on bioinformatics that can be used by students at an undergraduate level. It includes a dual table of contents, organized by algorithmic idea and biological idea; discussions of biologically relevant problems, including a detailed problem formulation and one or more solutions for each; and brief biographical sketches of leading figures in the field. These interesting vignettes offer students a glimpse of the inspirations and motivations for real work in bioinformatics, making the concepts presented in the text more concrete and the techniques more approachable.PowerPoint presentations, practical bioinformatics problems, sample code, diagrams, demonstrations, and other materials can be found at the Author's website. 2ff7e9595c
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