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Bioinformatics Using Computational Intelligence Paradigms Edited by U. Sieffert, L. C. Jain, and P. Schwiezer March 14, 2005 Springer ISBN 3540229019 |
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Introduction to Mathematical Methods in Bioinformatics
by Alexander Isaev July 27, 2004 Springer ISBN 3540219730 |
The book’s chapters are:
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Molecular Modeling and Simulation
by Tamar Schlick 2002 Springer |
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Structural Bioinformatics
Philip E. Bourne and Helge Weissig, editors ISBN 0471201995 |
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The Ten Most Wanted Solutions in Bioinformatics
by Anna Tramontano Chapman & Hall/CRC ISBN 1-58488-491-6 |
Good introductory book on protein bioinformatics. Available at Boston University’s Science Library. |
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Protein Structure and Function
by Gregory A. Petsko and Dagmar Ringe 2003 ISBN 0878936637 |
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Systems Biology in Practice by E. Klipp 2005 Weinheim: Wiley-VCH ISBN 9783527310784 |
Available at Boston University’s Science Library. |
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Beginning Mac OS X Programming
by Michael Trent and Drew McCormack July 2005 Wrox ISBN 0-7645-7399-3 |
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C++ and Object-Oriented Numeric Computing for Scientists and
Engineers by Yeng Springer |
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The Mac OS X Xcode 2 Book by Cohen and Cohen |
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Object-Oriented Neural Networks in C++ by Joey Rogers 1997 Academic Press |
Contains C++ source code for building neural nets. |
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Programming in C 3rd Edition by Stephen G. Kochan 2005 SAMS Publishing ISBN 0-672-32666-3 |
Covers C99. Available at Boston University’s Science Library. |
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Programming in Objective-C by Stephen G. Kochan 2004 ISBN 0-672-32586-1 |
A highly-recommended book for learning Objective C for programming for Mac OS X. |
| Xcode Tools Sinsei | A print and electronic book that covers the Xcode tools provided with Mac OS X. |
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Scientific Parallel Computing by L. Ridgway Scott, Terry Clark, and Babak Bagheri 2005 Princeton University Press ISBN 0-691-11935-X |
Available at Boston University’s Science Library. |
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Sourcebook of Parallel Computing by Jack Dongarra et al. 2003 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers ISBN 1-55860-871-0 |
Available at Boston University’s Science Library. |
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SQL Cookbook
by Athony Molinaro December 2005 O'Reilly ISBN 0-596-00976-3 |
Simon P. Chappell has contributed a review to slashdot.org. The book’s chapters are:
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Advanced Perl Programming
2nd edition by Simon Cozens June 2005 O’Reilly ISBN 0-596-00456-7 |
This looks like a wonderful resource for advanced Perl programmers. The book’s chapters are:
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Higher Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs
by Mark Jason Dominus March 14, 2005 Morgan Kaufman ISBN 1558607013 |
This book teaches the reader how to use functional programming techniques, LISP-like programming approaches that are not familiar to people who learned programming using the C-like languages. |
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Perl CookBook
2nd Edition by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington August 2003 O’Reilly ISBN 0-596-00313-7 |
I own the first edition of this book, which is getting a bit dated. |
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Perl Hacks
by chromatic, Damian Conway, and Curtis “Ovid” Poe May 2006 O'Reilly ISBN 0-596-52674-1 |
This new book contains 101 hacks. The book’s chapters are:
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Perl Testing: A
Developer’s Notebook
by Ian Langworth and chromatic July 14, 2005 O’Reilly Media, Inc. ISBN 0596100922 |
This book teaches the reader how to use Perl’s test suites. This is especially important when writing Perl modules that will be distributed to others. |
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Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the
Cosmos
by Seth Lloyd March 14, 2006 Knopf ISBN 1400040922 |
Professor Lloyd was a recent guest on Science Friday with Ira Flatow. This book explains how the universe is a quantum computer. |
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Analysis of Variance in Experimental Design by Harold R. Lindman 1992 Springer-Verlag, New York ISBN 0-387-97571-3 |
A good book on the level of Boston University’s course CAS MA 416. Unfortunately, this book is out of print. Available in Boston University’s Science Library. |
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Bootstrap Methods and Their Application by A. C. Davison and D. V. Hinkley 1997 Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521574714 |
Five-star rating at amazon.com. The code from this book was used as the basis for the boot package for R. |
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Graphics of Large Data Sets: Visualizing a Million
by Antony Unwin, Martin Theus, and Heike Hofmann July 10, 2006 Springer ISBN 0387329064 |
This book will be published in the summer of 2006. It shows how to visualize large data sets in ways that help the analyst make sense of them. |
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Linear Models with R
by Julian J. Faraway July 26, 2004 Chapman & Hall/CRC ISBN 1584884258 |
The book’s chapters are:
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Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-PLUS by Jose C. Pinheiro and Douglas M. Bates April 2, 2002 Springer ISBN 0387989579 |
This book provides complete coverage of the nlme package for nonlinear and linear mixed effects models using the S language. |
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R Graphics
by Paul Murrell 2005 Chapman & Hall/CRC ISBN 158488486X |
This book is devoted to creating graphics using R. The book covers traditional R graphics and the more sophisticated grid graphics, including the lattice package. The author provides his own web page devoted to the book. Some interesting commentary on R, prompted by the announcement of this book, is available at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science blog at Columbia University. |
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Self-Organizing Maps 3rd Edition by Teuvo Kohonen 2001 |
This difficult book will take a lot of time to absorb. Available at Boston University’s Science Library. |
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Statistical Methods: The Geometric Approach by David J. Saville and Graham R. Wood 1991 Springer-Verlag ISBN 0-387-97517-9 |
Out of print. Available in Boston University’s Science Library. |
