Bioinformatics Programming in Python

This first introductory book designed to train novice programmers is based on a student course taught by the author, and has been optimized for biology students without previous experience in programming.<br> By interspersing theory chapters with numerous small and large programming exercises, the author quickly shows readers how to do their own programming, and throughout uses anecdotes and real-life examples from the biosciences to ‘spice up’ the text.<br> This practical book thus teaches essential programming skills for life scientists who want — or need — to write their own bioinformatics software tools.