Perl Programming for BiologistsISBN: 978-0-471-43059-9
Paperback
208 pages
July 2003
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Working on the assumption that the reader has no formal training in
programming, Perl Programming for Biologists demonstrates
how Perl is used to solve biological problems. Each chapter opens
with a set of learning objectives, provides numerous review
questions and self-study exercises, and concludes with a bulleted
summary of key points. The author incorporates numerous real-life
examples throughout the text. Upon completing the book, readers are
able to quickly perform such tasks as correcting recurring errors
in spreadsheets, scanning a Fasta sequence for every occurrence of
an EcoRI site, adapting other writers' scripts to one's own
purposes, and most important, writing reusable and maintainable
scripts that spare the rote repetition of code.