Perl Programming For Bioinformatics & Biologists

Working on the assumption that the reader has never had any formal training in programming, and using examples geared towards real problems faced by biologists, this text serves as a basic reference for teaching Perl programming. Through this text, readers will also gain code fragments that can recycle into their own programs.

Table of contents :

Part I: The Basics
· Introduction
· An Introduction to Perl
· Variables and Data Types
· Arrays and Hashes
· Control Structures

Part II: Intermediate Perl
· Subroutines
· String Manipulation
· Input and Output
· Perl Modules and Packages

Part III: Advanced Perl
· References
· Object-Oriented Programming
· Bioperl

Appendix A. Partial Perl Reference
Appendix B. Bioinformatics File Formats
Index

Market Description :
· 4th year undergraduate students, graduate students, biologists who are transitioning to bioinformatics, scientists in any discipline of the life sciences





About Author :
Curtis Jamison received his B.A. (Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology) from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1985, and his Ph.D. (Biological Sciences) from the University of Denver in 1991. He held an NSF CISE postdoctoral fellowship while at National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where he received a patent for his work on distributed application gateways and database federation. Dr. Jamison continued his work on database federation with plant genome databases for the USDA Agricultural Genome Information Service, and then later evolved to work on higher organisms at the National Institutes of Health where he created computational tools for genome mapping for the Human Genome Project. He is currently an Associate Professor of Bioinformatics at George Mason University, and is director of the Bioinformatics Ph.D. program.