Python for Biologists: A complete programming course for beginners Paperback – 7 Sept. 2013

Python for Biologists: A complete programming course for beginnersHighly recommended to any biologists (unsurprisingly) attempting to learn Python as their first programming language. The content is kept interesting and challenging by relating everything to problems one may have in their everyday research. Even after just using the book for about an hour a night for a few days, I managed to write and apply my own code to edit files containing DNA sequences to change their format, saving me the painstaking process of having to do it manually.I fully intend to buy the sequel.

Great book if you're just starting in the world of programming. It explains everything that you might need from Python as a new programmer in a clear concise manner. Martin was my lecturer on Python at uni and I used the book after I left uni to brush up on my skills. In class he was great at explaining complicated things in a simple way and this book works in the same way. It can be used by anybody but it's particularly handy for biologists as it offers a lot of relevant examples and exercises.

Spot on useful for my job

It's a nice introduction that's clearly written, but why buy it when you can get the whole thing for free on the authors site?

I bought the book from the author's website.Pros:+ This is a beginner friendly book with step-by-step examples covering the basics of Python and a few applications to (mainly) evolutionary biology+ The examples and exercises given are fairly applicable/transferable to other fields in science and programmingCons:-Despite being advertised as a scientific programming book, I was surprised to find no mention about libraries like numpy, scipy, matplotlib, pandas; all of which are used frequently in the fields of scientific programming one way or another. There are no graphs or figures either.-Unfortunately these topics are not even covered in the second book, which is supposedly the "advanced" version of this book!I wish the author had made this more clear in the description or sample pages, otherwise I would not have bought it at the price its being sold at.

Llegó a tiempo, en buenas condiciones y es un muy buen libro para aprender. Te indica desde como instalar los programas

This book gave me hope. I have been genuinely struggling for the last months pursuing a phd only in a wet lab with the least bioinformatics you’ll need. Having only one post doc in the lab and trying to find out what career choices I have gave me a deep depression since I don’t see myself in the wet lab for the rest of my days. Being in the wet lab is nice and is fun if one is still young and can deal with stress, trauma and overworking.Since computers and games are my passion I tried to research and went anonymously reading Reddit posts about informatics in general and this book.First I couldn’t believe it but Dr. Jones gave me so much more than just basic knowledge on Bioinformatics for biologists. This book gave me hope that I can achieve whatever I want with my own will and some coins for a book. I think that this book (and ofc the rest of this series) is giving young biologists a perspective on how easy it is to achieve things which are not maybe taught by universities if one is in a PhD program.The way this book is written is so good and in my perspective acquires knowledge a masters student can easily bring along.Dr. Jones, thank you so much for helping me and so many other people out there. I genuinely feel happy and blessed that I have found this book and am achieving the goals I set for myself.

Very clear instructions, I was able to run the scripts after some troubleshooting. Very applicable to my program.

Great book with clear explanations, a must have for every biologist who wants to learn Python from the basics.I read it in a couple of weeks in my spare time and now I can easily write bits of programs withouth much effort!

Very well written and helpful