Opinions On: "Understanding Bioinformatics" By Zvelebil, Baum

Question

[Blunders]

Thinking about ordering this book from Amazon, but there's only two reviews -- so, thought I'd ask here to see if anyone had an opinion on the book, or a book they'd recommend instead.

[Chris Evelo]

Here is a link: https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Bioinformatics-Marketa-Zvelebil/dp/0815340249/

Answer 1

[Chris Evelo]

I happen to know Jaap Heringa, one of the two reviewers, he is an excellent bioinformatician.

Also check this [?]Biostar question[?]. The book was in fact mentioned there.

Answer 2

[Dataminer]

The book is excellent. It is from scratch to intermediate level. Worth buying and reading.

Answer 3

[Darked89]

While I do not own the book and did not read it from cover to cover I did parse it for few hours in the library in 2008. At that time this was probably the best book for teaching students, and it used as such, i.e. here:

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~nakhleh/COMP571/

[Blunders]

+1 @darked89: Thanks, super info!