Bioinformatics Data Skills

I bought this book to get a feel for what exactly is bioinformatics as I aspire to get into this area (I have a science degree and am working as a Data Engineer following bootcamp training - to get computational skills and experience) an to my opinion it does give a decent reality check - it is about reproducibility, project folder structure, a lot of shell scripting, becoming familiar with Linux etc (you can tell I didn't get further than Chapter 4 yet!). Anyway, great read, super happy with the purchase!

Great for beginners, looking forward to have some spare time and go deeper. My biological background is taken into account and the explanation is easy to follow.

It's one of the most readable books in bioinformatics. It's concise and has a nice balance of range vs. depth. The author is very adept at leading the audience into a topic in a step-by-step fashion, probably due to his experience in interacting with people who want to get into bioinformatics but only have very limited knowledge of unix and programing. For instance, although he pointed out that SQL was beyond the scope of this book, he nonetheless introduced a series of sqlite operations that should suffice for most research projects except those aiming at providing complex database for large group. Highly recommended for scientists with background in biology but want to get into data analysis.

O conteúdo do livro em si é ótimo A grande questão é a entrega da Amazon que danificou bastante o produto

I think this book will be useful for those who are not familiar with Linux and basic programming. However, the book doesn't have that much info on Bioinformatics. 70% of the book is about Linux command line, git source control and very basic R. So if you are a comp sci or a programmer then chances that you know all this stuff are pretty high. The actual bioinformatics read starts at the end of the book. I was hoping to see at least some info on de novo assembly, sequence alignment, NGS data processing, Galaxy and BioPython. If you are a tech savvy then I recommend: Bioinformatics: A Practical Handbook Of Next Generation Sequencing And Its Applications This book has a good listing and a brief explanation of all necessary tools to conduct a full analysis.