Practical Computing for Biologists - Softcover

Haddock, Steven H. D.; Dunn, Casey W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878933913 ISBN 13: 9780878933914

Publisher: OUP USA, 2010

Synopsis

Shows how to use computing tools to work more powerfully and effectively

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About the Author

Steven H.D. Haddock is a Research Scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and adjunct Associate Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, studying bioluminescence and biodiversity of gelatinous zooplankton. He started programming in BASIC on an Apple ][ and began his undergraduate studies in engineering before deciding to change fields. He took this programming background with him to his graduate studies in Marine Biology, where he quickly realized the advantages that computing skills offered and felt compelled to help foster these abilities in others. He has developed many utilities and devices for research, including instruments to monitor bioluminescence from fireflies, a freezer monitoring system, a web-based conference registration database, and a PCR calculator for smartphones.

Casey W. Dunn, a Professor at Yale University, does research that has a large computational component but always in conjunction with work in the field and lab. His first interest in computers stemmed from building electronics, and he further developed his computational skills working in Silicon Valley while an undergraduate. As his data sets grew larger and larger during grad school and his postdoc, he found himself reaching back to his computer background more often. In the course of his own research and helping other biologists with their computational challenges, he became concerned about the mismatch between training opportunities and the real day-to-day computational problems biologists face.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0878933913
• ISBN 13: 9780878933914
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 564