Saturday, August 6, 2011

beginning programming with java for dummies e-book

by Barry Burd



  • Covering everything from basic Java development concepts to the latest tools and techniques used in Java, this book will put would–be programmers on their way to Java mastery
  • Explores what goes into creating a program, how to put the pieces together, dealing with standard programming challenges, debugging, and making it work
  • Updated for the release of the Java SDK 2.0, with all examples revised to reflect the changes in the technology


A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web e-book

Mark Boulton



A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web aims to teach you techniques for designing your website using the principles of graphic design.Featuring five sections, each covering a core aspect of graphic design: Getting Started, Research, Typography, Colour, and Layout. Learn solid graphic design theory that you can simply apply to your designs, making the difference from a good design to a great one.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics e-book

by James Tisdall 
Publisher: O'Reilly Media | ISBN: 0596003072 | edition 2003 | CHM | 377 pages | 1 mb




“Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics covers the core Perl language and many of its module extensions, presenting them in the context of biological data and problems of pressing interest to the biological community. This book, along with Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics, forms a basic course in Perl programming. This second volume finishes the basic Perl tutorial material (references, complex data structures, object-oriented programming, use of modules--all presented in a biological context) and presents some advanced topics of considerable interest in bioinformatics. Biologists and computer scientists who have conquered the basics of Perl and are ready to move even further in their mastery of this versatile language will appreciate the author's well-balanced approach to applying Perl's analytical abilities to the field of bioinformatics. Full of practical examples and real-world biological problem solving, this book is a must for any reader wanting to move beyond beginner level Perl in bioinformatics.”

Bioinformatics And Computational Biology Solutions Using R And Bioconductor e-book

by Gentleman, Vincent Carey, Wolfgang Huber and Rafael Irizarry


"The book has several nice touches that readers will appreciate. First, the liberal use of color shows the full capabilities of Bioconductor pakages and brings the material to life. Second, color figures are dispersed throughout the text rather than being relegated to a central section of color plates. Third, the index indicates whether a term references a package, function or class. This book is an excellent resource... In summary, this book is a must have for any Bioconductor user." (J. Wade Davis, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 102, No. 477, 2007) "This book is solid evidence of the influence that quantitative researchers can have on biological investigations. Organized into separate chapters of shared authorship, the book provides a valuable overview of the impact that the authors and their colleagues have had on the analysis of genomic data." (R.W. Doerge, Biostatistics, December 2006) "This book provides an in-depth demonstration of the potential of the Bioconductor project, through a varied mixture of descriptions, figures and examples. a ] The book a ] is an exciting opportunity for researchers to learn directly from the software developers themselves. The range of material covered by the book is diverse and well structured. An abundance of fully worked case studies illustrate the methods in practice. a ] it should be a must for any researcher considering getting started with the software a ] ." (Rebecca Walls, Journal of Applied Statistics, Vol. 34 (3), 2007) Product Description Bioconductor is a widely used open source and open development software project for the analysis and comprehension of data arising from high-throughput experimentation in genomics and molecular biology. Bioconductor is rooted in the open source statistical computing environment R. This volume's coverage is broad and ranges across most of the key capabilities of the Bioconductor project, including importation and preprocessing of high-throughput data from microarray, proteomic, and flow cytometry platforms: Curation and delivery of biological metadata for use in statistical modeling and interpretation Statistical analysis of high-throughput data, including machine learning and visualization Modeling and visualization of graphs and networks The developers of the software, who are in many cases leading academic researchers, jointly authored chapters. All methods are illustrated with publicly available data, and a major section of the book is devoted to exposition of fully worked case studies. This book is more than a static collection of descriptive text, figures, and code examples that were run by the authors to produce the text; it is a dynamic document. Code underlying all of the computations that are shown is made available on a companion website, and readers can reproduce every number, figure, and table on their own computers.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Instant Notes in Bioinformatics e-book

D.R. Westhead, J. H. Parish, R.M. Twyman, "Instant Notes in Bioinformatics" 
Ta ylor & Fr ancis | 2002 | ISBN: 1859962726 | 304 pages | Djvu | 3,3 MB


Instant Notes in Bioinformatics, provides concise yet comprehensive coverage of bioinformatics at an undergraduate level, with easy access to the fundamentals in this complex field. All the important areas in bioinformatics are covered in a format which is ideal for learning and rapid revision and reference.


Bioinformatics Programming Using Python e-book


Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (December 23, 2009)ISBN-10: 059615450X ISBN-13: 978-0596154509






Powerful, flexible, and easy to use, Python is an ideal language for building software tools and applications for life scienceresearch and development. This unique book shows you how to program with Python, using code examples taken directly from bioinformatics. In a short time, you'll be using sophisticated techniques and Python modules that are particularly effective for bioinformatics programming.

Bioinformatics Programming Using Python is perfect for anyone involved with bioinformatics -- researchers, support staff, students, and software developers interested in writing bioinformatics applications. You'll find it useful whether you already use Python, write code in another language, or have no programming experience at all. It's an excellent self-instruction tool, as well as a handy reference when facing the challenges of real-life programming tasks.* Become familiar with Python's fundamentals, including ways to develop simple applications* Learn how to use Pythoz* Benefit from the "tips and traps" section in each chapter.


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Linux For Dummies 8th Edition e-book

Publisher: For Dummies | ISBN: 0470116498 | edition 2007 | PDF | 435 pages | 13,5 mb


* Focusing on Fedora Core 6, this accessible guide shows newcomers how to create a full-featured Linux desktop setup that's comparable to a Windows system
* Substantially revised and updated with new material on setting up a wireless home network, recycling an old Windows computer as a Linux home-networking server, running Linux on a laptop, editing digital photos, managing and playing audio and video, using open source productivity software, and more
* A companion Web site provides installation options and information on other popular Linux distributions, including SuSE, Mandriva, Linspire, Knoppix, and Ubuntu.

Ubuntu for Non-Geeks, 2nd Edition e-book

 Rickford Grant




This newbie's guide to Ubuntu - now updated for Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn), the latest Ubuntu release, which puts the spotlight on multimedia enablement and desktop effects - lets readers learn by doing. Using immersion-learning techniques favored by language courses, step-by-step projects build upon earlier tutorial concepts, stimulating the brain and increasing the reader's understanding. Ubuntu for Non-Geeks, 2nd Edition covers all the topics likely to be of interest to an average desktop user. Inside, you'll learn to: Download and install free applications, games, and utilities Connect to the Internet and wireless networks - Configure your hardware, including printers, scanners, and removable storage devices - Watch DVDs, listen to music, and even sync your iPod - Download photos and videos from your digital camera, then edit and share them - Tackle more advanced tasks as soon as you're ready Full of tips, tricks, and helpful pointers, Ubuntu for Non-Geeks, 2nd Edition is a hands-on, project-based, take-it slow guidebook intended for those interested in-but nervous about-switching to the Linux operating system. Step-by-step projects build upon earlier tutorial concepts, helping you absorb and apply what you've learned.


Sunday, July 31, 2011

Bioinformatics: Sequence, Structure and Databanks e-book


By Des Higgins, Willie Taylor 
Publisher: Oxford University Press | 15-10-2000 | ISBN: 0199637903 | 249 pages | 20.8 Mb





Univ. College, Cork, Ireland. Thorough and authoritative account of current techniques and approaches in the field. Covers searching information on entire protein families as well as searching with single sequences. Also describes methods forcomputer networking for the molecular biologist. 

Bioinformatics: A Practical Approach e-book

Shui Qing Ye

Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC | ISBN: 1584888105 | edition 2007 | PDF | 644 pages | 28 mb

An emerging, ever-evolving branch of science, bioinformatics has paved the way for the explosive growth in the distribution of biological information to a variety of biological databases, including the National Center for Biotechnology Information. For growth to continue in this field, biologists must obtain basic computer skills while computer specialists must possess a fundamental understanding of biological problems. Bridging the gap between biology and computer science, Bioinformatics: A Practical Approach assimilates current bioinformatics knowledge and tools relevant to the omics age into one cohesive, concise, and self-contained volume.


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Analysis of Genes and Genomes e-book


Richard J. Reece,
John Wiley & Sons | ISBN 0470843799 | 2004 Year | PDF | 7,61 Mb | 490 Pages




This beautifully illustrated textbook provides a clear guide to the tools and techniques of genetic engineering, gene cloning and molecular biology. All aspects of genetic engineering in the post-genomic era are covered, beginning with the basics of DNA structure and DNA metabolism. Using an example-driven approach, the fundamentals of creating mutations in DNA, cloning in bacteria, yeast, plants and animals are all clearly presented.

Java for bioinformatics and biomedical applications e-book


Harshawardhan Bal, Johnny Hujol




Java for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications describes the work of the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) and a large number of cancer centers across the U.S. under the caBIG (cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid) program, as well as standard bioinformatics applications. The goal of NCI caBIG is to create a standards based, interoperable network of individuals, applications and data to enhance the pace of cancer research. CaBIG uses J2EE and open source standards for all software development work. This book examines the tools and technologies being developed under caBIG to meet the goal of eliminating suffering and death from cancer by 2015 as formulated by the former NCI Director, Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach.In doing so, it provides a vignette into the efforts of thousands of people molecular biologists, medical practitioners, software developers, to name a few - across the country to bring the promise of translational research to individuals with cancer.
From a software perspective, a functional approach is used to teach the Java platform and its features for enterprise-level application development. Under this approach, the various syntactical and operative elements of the language and any software libraries that have been used (for example, BioJava, Apache, etc.) are taught not in isolation but in the context of discrete definable research problems that enable the user to relate how the different parts of the language fit together in the big picture. All examples are derived from practical problems faced in biomedical/clinical data retrieval and analysis during routine bioinformatics and cancer research. Further, the book illustrates how individual bioinformatics applications (such as BLAST and Genscan) can be stitched together into a pipeline so that users can direct the output of one tool (for example, gene predictions using Genscan) to perform further analysis (say, homology searching using BLAST).
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