[Biopython] ANN: Python for Bioinformatics book

[lueck at ipk-gatersleben.de]

Hi Sebastian!

This sounds like a great book! Hopefully it's will be soon also 
available in the german bookshops, so that I can have a look on it!

Kind regards
Stefanie

Zitat von Sebastian Bassi <sbassi at gmail.com>:

> Just want to announce the availability of the book "Python for
> Bioinformatics". It has a Biopython chapter and I made it thanks to
> lot of people of this list (and biopython-dev) who help me since I
> began programming Python about 7 years ago.
>
> Here is the official announce:
>
> "Python for Bioinformatics"
> ISBN 1584889292
> Amazon: http://www.tinyurl.com/biopython
> Publisher: http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781584889298
>
> This book introduces programming concepts to life science researchers,
> bioinformaticians, support staff, students, and everyone who is
> interested in applying programming to solve biologically-related
> problems. Python is the chosen programming language for this task
> because it is both powerful and easy-to-use.
>
> It begins with the basic aspects of the language (like data types and
> control structures) up to essential skills on today's bioinformatics
> tasks like building web applications, using relational database
> management systems, XML and version control. There is a chapter
> devoted to Biopython (www.biopython.org) since it can be used for most
> of the tasks related to bioinformatics data processing.
>
> There is a section with applications with source code, featuring
> sequence manipulation, filtering vector contamination, calculating DNA
> melting temperature, parsing a genbank file, inferring splicing sites,
> and more.
>
> There are questions at the end of every chapter and odd numbered
> questiona are answered in an appendix making this text suitable for
> classroom use.
>
> This book can be used also as a reference material as it includes
> Richard Gruet's Python Quick Reference, and the Python Style Guide.
>
> DVD: The included DVD features a virtual machine with a special
> edition of DNALinux, with all the programs and complementary files
> required to run the scripts commented in the book. All scripts can be
> tweaked to fit a particular configuration. By using a pre-configured
> virtual machine the reader has access to the same development
> environment than the author, so he can focus on learning Python. All
> code is also available at the http://py3.us/## where ## is the code
> number, for example: http://py3.us/57
>
> I've been working on this book for more than two years testing the
> examples under different setups and working to make the code
> compatible for most versions of Python, Biopython and operating
> systems. Where there is code that only works with a particular
> dependency, this is clearly noted.
>
> Finally, I want to highlight that non-bioinformaticians out there can
> use this book as an introduction to bioinformatics by starting with
> the included "Diving into the Gene Pool with BioPython" (by Zachary
> Voase and published originally in Python Magazine).
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