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Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins [Hardcover]

Andreas D. Baxevanis (Editor), B. F. Francis Ouellette (Editor)
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0471478784 978-0471478782 October 29, 2004 3
Reviews of the Second Edition
"In this book, Andy Baxevanis and Francis Ouellette . . . have undertaken the difficult task of organizing the knowledge in this field in a logical progression and presenting it in a digestible form. And they have done an excellent job. This fine text will make a major impact on biological research and, in turn, on progress in biomedicine. We are all in their debt."
--Eric Lander, from the Foreword to the Second Edition
"The editors and the chapter authors of this book are to be applauded for providing biologists with lucid and comprehensive descriptions of essential topics in bioinformatics. This book is easy to read, highly informative, and certainly timely. It is most highly recommended for students and for established investigators alike, for anyone who needs to know how to access and use the information derived in and from genomic sequencing projects."
--Trends in Genetics
"It is an excellent general bioinformatics text and reference, perhaps even the best currently available . . . Congratulations to the authors, editors, and publisher for producing a weighty, authoritative, readable, and attractive book."
--Briefings in Bioinformatics
"This book, written by the top scientists in the field of bioinformatics, is the perfect choice for every molecular biology laboratory."
--The Quarterly Review of Biology
This fully revised version of a world-renowned bestseller provides readers with a practical guide covering the full scope of key concepts in bioinformatics, from databases to predictive and comparative algorithms. Using relevant biological examples, the book provides background on and strategies for using many of the most powerful and commonly used computational approaches for biological discovery. This Third Edition reinforces key concepts that have stood the test of time while making the reader aware of new and important developments in this fast-moving field. With a new full-color and enlarged page design, Bioinformatics, Third Edition offers the most readable, up-to-date, and thorough introduction to the field for biologists.
This new edition features:
* New chapters on genomic databases, predictive methods using RNA sequences, sequence polymorphisms, protein structure prediction, intermolecular interactions, and proteomic approaches for protein identification
* Detailed worked examples illustrating the strategic use of the concepts presented in each chapter, along with a collection of expanded,more rigorous problem sets suitable for classroom use
* Special topic boxes and appendices highlighting experimental strategies and advanced concepts
* Annotated reference lists, comprehensive lists of relevant Web resources, and an extensive glossary of commonly used terms in bioinformatics, genomics, and proteomics
Bioinformatics, Third Edition is essential reading for researchers, instructors, and students of all levels in molecular biology and bioinformatics, as well as for investigators involved in genomics, clinical research, proteomics, and computational biology.

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"…an outstanding achievement and will be a sound resource for bioengineers, cellular and molecular biotechnologists, and bioinformatists." (Annals of Biomedical Engineering, June 2006)

"…does an excellent job of tracking developments and providing an account that will be accessible to working biologists. This should be on the bookshelf of every molecular biologist." (The Quarterly Review of Biology, December 2005)

"...fully delivers on its promise of providing a useful and practical guide...I found it to be the most useful book on bioinformatics I have seen and recommend it very highly." (ASM News, September 2005)

“…not only an excellent guidebook … but also a supreme teaching and reference material.” (ChemBioChem, 2005; Vol. 6, 6)

"…not only an excellent guidebook for bioinformatics users but also…a supreme teaching and reference material." (ChemBioChem, July 4, 2005)

"…the most updated bioinformatics book that offers expert insights into cutting-edge tools of modern computational biology and stands out from many current texts on the subject." (American Journal of Human Biology, May/June 2005)

"…The book and the attached web links together give readers a rich resource of topics covered..." (Statistical Methods in Medical Research, Vol.14, No.1, 2005)

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"A useful introduction to biologists, with a particularly strong introduction to the tools available from the NCBI."
—Russ B. Altman, MD, PhD, Stanford University Medical Center --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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40 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars from NATURE STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY review (Dec 99), December 2, 1999
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"The novice user of bioinformatics tools needs a guide that answers several fundamental questions - what are these tools designed for and what can they do; what are their limitations; how does one access them, and where can one find further information. For each of the basic sub-fields of bioinformatics, Bioinformatics provides a survey, a list of world wide web addresses (URLs), and a list of monographs and reviews to which the reader may go for further information. Each chapter covers fundamental definitions and makes no assumptions about prior knowledge.... The book provides a broad overview of the basic tools for sequence analysis. It is a good starting point for the reader who wants to learn about the types of tools used in bioinfomatics and how to get started. For biologists approaching this subject for the first time, it will be a very useful handbook to keep on the shelf after the first reading, close to the computer." --Terry Gaasterland, The Rockefeller University
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47 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Mileading, disappointing, useless, June 27, 2001
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Baxevanis and Ouellete apparently convinced some of their colleagues from NIH (and a few others) to publish user manuals for selected computer programs in the form of edited book. The idea itself is valuable provided that the complete collection of meaningful software is described competently and honestly. Unfortunately the content of this book is limited mostly to the software developed by NCBI and to analyses performed on the UNIX-based workstations. There is almost no coverage of other bioinformatics software (except for the GCG package which contains software and database tools common with NCBI anyway.)

Perhaps the most troubling aspect of the book is lack of description of the fundamentals of sequence analysis. With the exception of Chapter 10 one cannot learn sequence analysis from this volume. Nor would it be advisable to use it as a desk reference to find appropriate citations of published sequence analysis work. A vast majority of references cited is biased. Merits of the citations' content do not seem to matter to the editors and that makes their book almost useless for the would-be practitioners.

I hasten to admonish that the book appears to be primarily a software marketing material and not an effort to educate or otherwise empower the reader. I am surprised that the material covered by the book is not distributed free of charge via Internet or other publicly available means. 9 out of 16 contributors (I refer here to the first edition) are actively working for the US Government at the time of writing. Still their chapters appear to be copyrighted by the publisher instead of being in public domain. But these are all minor problems comparing to the misgivings of the book's content mentioned in the first two paragraphs of this note.

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22 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Poor as an introduction to the field, May 22, 2002
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The purpose of the book appears to be to provide a broad overview of current public bioinformatics tools. If one is interested to find pointers to software that addresses a specific bioinformatics question, the book does a reasonable job of showing what was available at the end of 2000. However, this approach has two major shortcomings. First, the principles and main scientific ideas associated with each covered area are only glossed over. Second, there is a chronic lack of depth in the presentation of any particular method. Because of these two problems the book is useless to the novice and makes a poor choice as a textbook for an introductory bioinformatics course. The best chapter is #14 on phylogenetic analysis, which emphasizes the strategies of data analysis and potential misinterpretations of the results. An embarrassing addition to the second edition is a chapter on Perl, which I doubt will be useful to any type of reader. Another chapter, which would have been better left out is #1, an introduction to the internet. It may have been appropriate for the first edition, but the material is too simplistic for the present.
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