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Opinions On: "Understanding Bioinformatics" By Zvelebil, Baum

Thinking about ordering this book from Amazon, but there's only two reviews -- so, thought I'd ask here to see if anyone had an opinion on the book, or a book they'd recommend instead.

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I happen to know Jaap Heringa, one of the two reviewers, he is an excellent bioinformatician.

Also check this [?]Biostar question[?]. The book was in fact mentioned there.

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written by Chris Evelo Chris Evelo

The book is excellent. It is from scratch to intermediate level. Worth buying and reading.

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written by Dataminer Dataminer

While I do not own the book and did not read it from cover to cover I did parse it for few hours in the library in 2008. At that time this was probably the best book for teaching students, and it used as such, i.e. here:

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~nakhleh/COMP571/

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written by Darked89 Darked89

+1 @darked89: Thanks, super info!

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