READING

REQUIRED TEXTS

Bioinformatics Sequence and Genome Analysis, D.W. Mount,Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press ISBN 0-87969-608-7 (This is the 1st Ed Softcover. TheUCONN bookstore is expecting the 2nd Ed in August- ISBN not avail yet)

Suggested Additional Text Books for the Course

Primer on Molecular Genetics (Download form Dept of Energy)

Introduction to Computational Molecular Biology,  J.Setubal and J.Meidanis, PWS Publishing Company, ISBN: 0534952623.

Data Mining Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques with JAVA Implementation,  IH Witten and E Frank, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, ISBN 1-55860-552-5

Reference Books

Bioinformatics:  The Machine Learning Approach,  P. Baldi and S. Brunal, MIT Press, ISBN: 0-262-02442-X

Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins,  A.D.Baxevanis and B.F.F.Ouellette, Wiley-Interscience, ISBN:  0471191965.

Strong Focus on Internet Resources:  Guide to Human Genome Computing.  Bishop,M. Ed.  2nd Edition. Academic Press, ISBN 0-12-102051-7

For algorithms particularly  in the context of computational biology: Algorithms on Strings, Trees and Sequences: Computer Science and
Computational Biology,  D. Gusfield, Cambridge University Press, ISBN:
0521585198.

For Hidden Markov Models:Biological Sequence Analysis:  Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids,  R. Durbin, S. Eddy, A. Krogh, G. Mitchison,  Cambridge University Press, ISBN:  0-521-62041

For rigorous mathematics:Introduction to Computational Biology: Maps, Sequences, Genomes,
M.S.Waterman, Chapman & Hall, ISBN: 0412993910.

Computational Molecular Biology , An Algorithmic Approach. P. A. Pezvener, MIT Press ISBN 0-262-16197-4

Other Useful Reference Texts

Nice overview but has some continuity problems: Bioinformatics Basics,  Rashidi,H, Buehler,L  CRC Press, 2000.  ISBN 0-8493-2375-4

Nice inroductory segments,but a how-to-use existing software manual: Bioinformatics Computer Skills,  Gibas,C  Jambeck,P  O'Reilly Press, 2001.  ISBN 1-56592-664-1

Really good on HMMs, signal and motif recognition Computational Methods in Molecular Biology, Salzberg,, Searls, DB, Kasif, S eds.  Elsevier, ISBN0-444-50204-1

Finding Groups In Data,  An Introduction to Cluster Analysis, Kaufman, l,  Rousseeuw,P  John Wiley and Sons, ISBN: 0-471-87876-6

Multivariate Statistical Analysis, A Conceptual Introduction, Kachigan, S. Radius Press. ISBN: 0-942154-91-6

Pattern Recognition, S Theodoridis, K Koutroumbas  Academic Press, ISBN: 0-12-686140-4

Pattern Discovery in Biomolecular Data   Tools, Techniques, and Applications.  Wang, J, Shapiro,B, Shasha,D Eds.  Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-511940-1

A real gem: Machine Learning,  Mitchell, T, McGraw-Hill  ISBN 0-07-042807-7

For Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics

Wonderful: Molecular Cell Biology - 4th Edition.  Lodish,H, Berk, A, Zipursky,SL, Matsudaira, P,  Baltimore, D, Darnell, J,   WH Freeman and Company, ISBN 0-7167-3136-3

Biochemistry - Second Edition.  Voet, D, Voet, J  John Wilet & Sons ISBN 0-471-58651-X

A clear explanation of genetic concepts-also good history Genetics a molecular approach Second Edition  Brown, TA.  Chapman and Hall ISBN 0-412-44730-4b
 
 

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