[Biojava-l] [Off the Topic ] Bioinformatics for software engineers?

[Mark Schreiber]

Wikipedia is always a good place to get a very rapid overview of some
unfamiliar biological term.

- Mark

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Richard Holland
<holland at eaglegenomics.com> wrote:
>
> Your best bet is a good old fashioned book. ;)
>
> A quick search on Amazon threw up this one which looks like a very
> helpful intro to cell biology for people like you (and me!) who have
> come to bioinformatics from a computer science background:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Bioinformatics-Genes-Proteins-Computers-Advanced/dp/1859960545/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232102747&sr=1-4
>
> Hopefully this is a good starting point. I'm sure everyone on this list
> has their own favourite books which they could recommend to you as well.
>
> cheers,
> Richard
>
>
> Ashika Umanga Umagiliya wrote:
> > Greetings all,
> >
> > I come from a computer science background and at the moment I work on a
> > Bioinformatics software.I really see the necessity to learn more on
> > bioinformatics , quickly :)
> > I hear (and use blindly)all this words - "sequence alignment , epitopes
> > , CDR , homology modeling ,docking,amino acids"...etc and at the moment
> > I don't care much about them since I've been told what to happen and I
> > implement it.
> > Where can i learn about this concepts easily , I mean for a guy come
> > from mathematical and IT background ?/
> >
> > Best regards,
> > umanga
> >
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