Computing Skills for Biologists : : A Toolbox / / Madlen Wilmes, Stefano Allesina.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
• VerfasserIn: Allesina, Stefano,; Wilmes, Madlen,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (440 p.) :; 7 b/w illus.

A concise introduction to key computing skills for biologistsWhile biological data continues to grow exponentially in size and quality, many of today's biologists are not trained adequately in the computing skills necessary for leveraging this information deluge. In Computing Skills for Biologists, Stefano Allesina and Madlen Wilmes present a valuable toolbox for the effective analysis of biological data.Based on the authors' experiences teaching scientific computing at the University of Chicago, this textbook emphasizes the automation of repetitive tasks and the construction of pipelines for data organization, analysis, visualization, and publication. Stressing practice rather than theory, the book's examples and exercises are drawn from actual biological data and solve cogent problems spanning the entire breadth of biological disciplines, including ecology, genetics, microbiology, and molecular biology. Beginners will benefit from the many examples explained step-by-step, while more seasoned researchers will learn how to combine tools to make biological data analysis robust and reproducible. The book uses free software and code that can be run on any platform.Computing Skills for Biologists is ideal for scientists wanting to improve their technical skills and instructors looking to teach the main computing tools essential for biology research in the twenty-first century.Excellent resource for acquiring comprehensive computing skillsBoth novice and experienced scientists will increase efficiency by building automated and reproducible pipelines for biological data analysisCode examples based on published data spanning the breadth of biological disciplinesDetailed solutions provided for exercises in each chapterExtensive companion website

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Summary of Contents -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 0. Introduction: Building a Computing Toolbox -- 1. Unix -- 2. Version Control -- 3. Basic Programming -- 4. Writing Good Code -- 5. Regular Expressions -- 6. Scientific Computing -- 7. Scientific Typesetting -- 8. Statistical Computing -- 9. Data Wrangling and Visualization -- 10. Relational Databases -- 11. Wrapping Up -- Intermezzo Solutions -- Bibliography -- Indexes