[Bioperl-l] Bioinformatics on slashdot

[Nathan Torkington]

Gregory Carl Kettler writes:
> That new O'Reilly book, Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills,
> interests me.  Can anyone say if it's good?  Is it aimed at the
> biologist who knows nothing about computers, the programmer who
> knows nothing about biology, or a little bit of both?  Does it
> belong in my personal library?

It's been selling gangbusters on amazon.com if that's any
commendation.  The blurb reads:

>> Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills is for scientists and
>> students who are learning computational approaches to biology for
>> the first time, as well as for experienced biology researchers who
>> are just starting to use computers to handle their data. The book
>> covers the Unix file system, building tools and databases for
>> bioinformatics, computational approaches to biological problems, an
>> introduction to Perl for bioinformatics, data mining, and data
>> visualization

The word we've been hearing is that experienced folks give it to
novices to quickly get them up to speed.

Nat
(editor at O'Reilly, but not the editor of the book)