{"product_id":"9780596550479","title":"Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics: An Introduction to Perl for Biologists","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith its highly developed capacity to detect patterns in data, Perl has become one of the most popular languages for biological data analysis. But if you're a biologist with little or no programming experience, starting out in Perl can be a challenge. Many biologists have a difficult time learning how to apply the language to bioinformatics. The most popular Perl programming books are often too theoretical and too focused on computer science for a non-programming biologist who needs to solve very specific problems.\u003ci\u003eBeginning Perl for Bioinformatics\u003c\/i\u003e is designed to get you quickly over the Perl language barrier by approaching programming as an important new laboratory skill, revealing Perl programs and techniques that are immediately useful in the lab. Each chapter focuses on solving a particular bioinformatics problem or class of problems, starting with the simplest and increasing in complexity as the book progresses. Each chapter includes programming exercises and teaches bioinformatics by showing and modifying programs that deal with various kinds of practical biological problems. By the end of the book you'll have a solid understanding of Perl basics, a collection of programs for such tasks as parsing BLAST and GenBank, and the skills to take on more advanced bioinformatics programming. Some of the later chapters focus in greater detail on specific bioinformatics topics. This book is suitable for use as a classroom textbook, for self-study, and as a reference.The book covers:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProgramming basics and working with DNA sequences  and strings \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDebugging your code\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSimulating gene mutations using random number generators\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRegular expressions and finding motifs in data\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArrays, hashes, and relational databases\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRegular expressions and restriction maps\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUsing Perl to parse PDB records, annotations in  GenBank, and BLAST output\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"O'Reilly Media, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165998137584,"sku":"9780596550479","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780596550479_p0.jpg?v=1763724575","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780596550479","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}