Useful Resources :: Recommended Books

Below, we have collated links to the Bioinformatics Books available through Amazon.com. We have not provided assessments of these books; you will need to use Amazon's reader feedback to decide on their usefulness. However, we do have some of the books in our own collection; if you would like to peruse them before purchasing, please contact us to make the necessary arrangements. The IUB Life Sciences library also has a growing collection of Bioinformatics Books.

Bioinformatics books at Amazon.com

Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
By R. Durbin, S. Eddy, A. Krogh, and G. Mitchison
Cambridge University Press, 1998

ISBN:0521629713

Summary:
An excellent book for learning the algorithms used in bioinformatics, including pair and multiple sequence alignments, profiles, Markov models, phylogenetic trees, RNA structure, along with the probability underpinings of these and its role for analyzing biosequence strings. This one also has a good price ($35)

IU Library: QP620 .B576 1998 LIFE SCIENCES LIBRARY

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