Treat yourself to a lively intuitive and easy-to-follow introduction to computer programming
in Python. The book was written specifically for biologists with little or no prior experience
of writing code - with the goal of giving them not only a foundation in Python programming but
also the confidence and inspiration to start using Python in their own research. Virtually all
of the examples in the book are drawn from across a wide spectrum of life science research
from simple biochemical calculations and sequence analysis to modeling the dynamic
interactions of genes and proteins in cells or the drift of genes in an evolving population.
Best of all Python for the Life Sciences shows you how to implement all of these projects in
Python one of the most popular programming languages for scientific computing. If you are a
life scientist interested in learning Python to jump-start your research this is the book for
you. What You'll Learn Write Python scripts to automate your lab calculations Search for
important motifs in genome sequences Use object-oriented programming with Python Study mining
interaction network data for patterns Review dynamic modeling of biochemical switches Who This
Book Is For Life scientists with little or no programming experience including undergraduate
and graduate students postdoctoral researchers in academia and industry medical professionals
and teachers lecturers. A comprehensive introduction to using Python for computational
biology... A lovely book with humor and perspective -- John Novembre Associate Professor of
Human Genetics University of Chicago and MacArthur FellowFun entertaining witty and darn
useful. A magical portal to the big data revolution -- Sandro Santagata Assistant Professor in
Pathology Harvard Medical School Alex and Gordon's enthusiasm for Python is contagious --
Glenys Thomson Professor of Integrative Biology University of California Berkeley
