Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills
 horrible: This book is the worst I've ever purchased. It has been no help whatsoever. It had a couple examples of PERL programming...big deal. The 5-star ratings are obvious shills (one reviewer wrote a very long review and has never reviewed anything [... more]
$34.95
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As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces ...
Amazon.com Review: In As the Future Catches You, Juan Enriquez of the Harvard Business School attempts to capture the trajectory of technological progress and understand the forces shaping our social and economic futures. Enriquez argues that February 2, [... more]
$24.95
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Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age
Amazon.com Review: Some great science fiction has asked about robots and the right to vote--but what happens when we're 51 percent artificial ourselves? Cyberculture scholar Chris Hables Gray looks at the ever-changing human body in Cyborg Citizen: [... more]
$27.95
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First Fruit: The Creation of the Flavr Savr Tomato and ...
Amazon.com Review: Engaging both sides of the agricultural biotech controversy and hoping to initiate a reasoned dialogue, geneticist Belinda Martineau explores the development and eventual failure of the Flavr Savr tomato in First Fruit. One of the [... more]
$24.95
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Dinner at the New Gene Cafe: How Genetic Engineering Is ...
Amazon.com Review: It may be true that we are what we eat. Now, with a flood of genetically modified foods overtaking the market, it is possible to eat what we are. But the prospect of genetic cannibalism is the least of the worries of food activists, [... more]
$24.95
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Genetically Modified Organisms in Agriculture: Economics ...
Nice intro to GMO ag issues: This book is a collection of articles and papers about various aspects of GMO foods. While not as detailed as grad-level specialty publications, it's an excellent--and fair--general introduction to GMO crops and the issues [... more]
$97.95
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Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual (3-Volume Set)
a formerly essential classic: For many years the previous edition of this set was an essential reference in molecular biology labs. At present however, there are too many good protocol books out there to really make this argument. The book is pretty [... more]
$259.00
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The Biotech Century
Amazon.com Review: When two Scottish scientists successfully cloned a sheep in July 1996, the news sparked fierce scientific, ethical, theological, and philosophical debate, momentarily pulling biotechnology from the laboratories and thrusting it onto [... more]
$13.95
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Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to the Analysis of ...
Somewhat more than an out-of-date catalog of tools: The book is a collection of chapters by different authors addressing software tools for various problems: database search, multiple sequence alignment, gene prediction, protein structure prediction, etc. [... more]
$74.95
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Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis
Leaves something to be desired: I took Dr. Mount's class at the U. or Arizona, and he's a really smart guy, but the man can't explain anything. It's not just his book either; his lectures are just as cryptic. I went to class thinking I understood the [... more]
$79.00
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Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of ...
Book Description: Probabilistic methods are assuming greater significance in the analysis of nucleotide sequence data. This book provides the first unified, up-to-date and self-contained account of such methods, and more generally of probabilistic [... more]
$60.00
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our ...
Who is Your Mommy?: I read this book because I had read about National Geographic's Genome Project including the book by the Project Director Spencer Wells. I wanted to learn more on the subject and get other points of view. The first part of Sykes' book [... more]
$25.95
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