I have been one of the listeners on your list for the last few years and I think posted only once. At the time it was about a book I was writing with a computer science colleague on teaching perl for the purpose of analyzing DNA strings. (=bioinformatics or genomics) We thought there was a need for such a book and actually we teach a course on it. And I am a Biologist who collaborates in Genomics with CS folks.
So anyway--the book is out! It is called Perl for DNA Oxford U Press (and we negotiated hard to make it a pretty low price $29) AND this is kind of a long shot because I know this is a list for professionals who might not be intersted in a book like this for novice programmers but.... (just delete) If someone on the list feels like maybe reading the book and writing a little review on perlmongers, well--let me know and I will get you a copy gratis.(I will need actual paper mailing address)(Probably this wont happen but if bunches of people respond-I may just have to go with 1 or 2--but it reality maybe there will be silence (or the sounds of many people deleting this email)--and that's ok too) One little (possibly) intriguing feature of the book is that because it was co-authored by a biologist (me) it is full of little observations, digressions, and deconstructions--kind of a biologists view of the perl world and strings and linguistics and beauty and truth and even larry himself and others. It is NOT a perl bible- (that would be the camel book) and it is not for experts. Rather it is a friendly inviting (somewhat unconventional) approach for biologists who who like string searching and want to try some themselves. Betsey -- Betsey Dexter Dyer Department of Biology Wheaton College Norton, MA 02766 USA 1-508-286-3951 fax 285-8278 _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
