Perl for Exploring DNA
Mark D. LeBlanc and Betsey Dexter Dyer
Abstract
The book presents a hands-on introductory guide to DNA sequence analysis. This can be depicted as a linear map of As, Cs, Gs, and Ts; however, such a map only hints at the varied contours and crevices, twists, kinks, loops, and nodes of the extraordinary double helix. The book uncovers why Perl is the language of choice when identifying patterns in strings of text. It offers a simplified approach to programming that is applicable to biological sequence analysis, especially geared to those who do not have prior programming experience. Concepts include good programming practices, creative approa ... More
The book presents a hands-on introductory guide to DNA sequence analysis. This can be depicted as a linear map of As, Cs, Gs, and Ts; however, such a map only hints at the varied contours and crevices, twists, kinks, loops, and nodes of the extraordinary double helix. The book uncovers why Perl is the language of choice when identifying patterns in strings of text. It offers a simplified approach to programming that is applicable to biological sequence analysis, especially geared to those who do not have prior programming experience. Concepts include good programming practices, creative approaches to teaching and working with strings and files of sequence data, and sequence related applications of regular expressions, control structures, arrays, and hash tables. A linguistic metaphor is used throughout the text to complement an exceptionally friendly and pedagogically sound introduction to sequence analysis via Perl programming.
Keywords:
Perl,
DNA,
programming,
double helix,
linguistic,
novice,
interdisciplinary,
sequence analysis,
genomics
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780195305890 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2010 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195305890.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Mark D. LeBlanc, author
Wheaton College, Massachusetts
Betsey Dexter Dyer, author
Wheaton College, Massachusetts
More
Less
