James Tisdall has written Beginning Perl for Biologists, the second in O'Reilly's line of bioinformatics books (the other being Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills.
"Perl is the most popular computer language in bioinformatics because it is very easy to represent data like long DNA sequences or manipulate biological data like GenBank records or BLAST reports, and especially because it makes the writing of biologically useful programs relatively straightforward," says Tisdall.
O'Reilly's also holding a Bioinformatics Technology Conference on January 28-31, 2002 in Tucson, AZ.
