[BioC] ANNOUNCEMENT: 20% discount on the most recent bioconductor/R books from Chapman & Hall/CRC!

[Calver, Rob]

Take advantage of a 20% discount on the most recent bioconductor and R books from Chapman & Hall/CRC! 

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Combinatorial Pattern Matching Algorithms in Computational Biology Using Perl and R

Gabriel Valiente, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain 

Publication Date:  April 2009 
Number of Pages:  368 

Emphasizing the search for patterns within and between biological sequences, trees, and graphs, this book shows how combinatorial pattern matching algorithms can solve computational biology problems that arise in the analysis of genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic, and interactomic data. It implements the algorithms in Perl and R, two widely used scripting languages in computational biology. The book supplies a comprehensive view of the whole field of combinatorial pattern matching from a computational biology perspective. Along with thorough discussions of each biological problem, it includes detailed algorithmic solutions in pseudo-code, full Perl and R implementation, and pointers to other software, such as those on CPAN and CRAN.

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Gene Expression Studies Using Affymetrix Microarrays

Hinrich Gohlmann and Willem Talloen, Johnson & Johnson, Beerse, Belgium 
  
Publication Date:  June 2009 
Number of Pages:  359 

The Affymetrix GeneChip® system is one of the most widely adapted microarray platforms. However, due to the overwhelming amount of information available, many Affymetrix users tend to stick to the default analysis settings and may end up drawing sub-optimal conclusions. Written by a molecular biologist and a biostatistician with a combined decade of experience in practical expression profiling experiments and data analyses, Gene Expression Studies Using Affymetrix Microarrays tears down the omnipresent language barriers among molecular biology, bioinformatics, and biostatistics by explaining the entire process of a gene expression study from conception to conclusion.

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Introduction to Scientific Programming and Simulation Using R

Owen Jones, Robert Maillardet and Andrew Robinson, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia 

Publication Date: March 2009
Number of Pages: 472

This book teaches the skills needed to perform scientific programming while also introducing stochastic modelling. Stochastic modelling in particular, and mathematical modelling in general, are intimately linked to scientific programming because the numerical techniques of scientific programming enable the practical application of mathematical models to real-world problems. Assuming no prior knowledge of programming or probability, the book is organised into four main sections, covering Programming in R, A primer on numerical mathematics, A self-contained introduction to probability theory and Simulation. Unlike most guides to R, this volume is not about the application of statistical techniques, but rather shows how to turn algorithms into code. It is for those who want to make tools, not just use them. 

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Hidden Markov Models for Time Series: An Introduction Using R

Walter Zucchini,  University of Gottingen, Germany and Iain L. MacDonald,  University of Cape Town, South Africa 

Publication Date:  April 2009 
Number of Pages:  288 

This book applies hidden Markov models (HMMs) to a wide range of time series types, from continuous-valued, circular, and multivariate series to binary data, bounded and unbounded counts, and categorical observations. It also discusses how to employ the freely available computing environment R to carry out computations for parameter estimation, model selection and checking, decoding, and forecasting. After presenting the simple Poisson HMM, the book covers estimation, forecasting, decoding, prediction, model selection, and Bayesian inference. Through examples and applications, the authors describe how to extend and generalize the basic model so it can be applied in a rich variety of situations. They also provide R code for some of the examples, enabling the use of the codes in similar applications.

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R Programming for Bioinformatics

Robert Gentleman, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, U.S.A. 

Publication Date: January 2009
Number of Pages: 328

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Structural Bioinformatics: An Algorithmic Approach

Forbes J. Burkowski,  University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 

Publication Date:  October 2008 
Number of Pages:  429 

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Introduction to Data Technologies

Paul Murrell, The University of Auckland, New Zealand  

Publication Date: February 2009
Number of Pages: 418

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Statistical Computing with R

Maria L. Rizzo, Bowling Green State Univ., Ohio, U.S.A. 

Publication Date: 2008
Number of Pages: 416

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