A practical introduction to Unix/Linux and programming for biologists as well as for chemists and physicists who work in bioinformatics and biophysics. The goal is to learn about the power of the stream editor 'sed' and the programming languages 'awk' and 'perl' in order to extract or format information from various sources. The text has been written for beginners with no computational knowledge. Basic programming constructs are introduced and applied. With this book, the reader will be able to work in the Unix environment (BSD, Linux, Knoppix, MacOSX, CygWin) and write programs in order to format and analyze large data files.

Klappentext

-Teaches the reader how to use Unix, which is the key to basic computing and allows the most flexibility for bioinformatics applications

-Written specifically with the needs of molecular biologists in mind

-Easy to follow, written for beginners with no computational knowledge

-Includes examples from biological data analysis

-Can be use either for self-teaching or in courses

Inhalt

Part I Whetting your Appetite: Introduction.- Part II Computer and Operating Systems: Unix/Linux.- Part III: Working with Unix/Linux: The First Touch.- Working with Files.- Installing BLAST and ClustalW.- Working with Text.- Using the Shell.- Shell Programming.-Regular Expressions.- Sed.- Part IV Programming: Awk.- Perl.- Appendix.- Solutions.- References.- Index