Review of Genomic Perl3 From Bioinformatics Basics to Working Code Rex A. Dwyer Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2003 ISBN: 0-521-80177-X Review by: Raymond Wan (rwan@cs.mu.oz.au University of Melbourne, Australia Overview Genomic Perl by Rex A. Dwyer covers several topics in bioinformatics in the context of the Perl language. According to the preface, the book selects some topics in bioinformatics, and presents them to the intended audience a student in an upper year level undergraduate or graduate level course . Overall, I found the book interesting to read, but I believe it should be read with other resources available for reference. Summary of Contents The book consists of 17 chapters and appendices. While certain chapters build on the work from previous ones, each is self-contained and follows a xed formula. The rst half of a chapter provides the background in biochemistry that is essential to the chapter. Then, a Perl program is built up during the remainder of the chapter which addresses the problem, with di cult parts explained in the text. Every chapter has one to around ten questions for the student, with no solutions provided. The di culty of the questions range from drawing a su
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