Pre-course Information

We look forward to you joining the University of Sussex in October.
It will be very helpful for you to do some background reading before you join the course in October.
It will give you a head start on the first few weeks of the course if you can find the time to read
some of the texts outlined below and try some of the on-line tutorials.

Biocomputing

• Learning Perl: 4th edition. Schwartz RL & Phoenix T. O'Reilly (2005)
• Beginning Perl: S. Curzons : On-line book http://learn.perl.org/library/beginning_perl
• Perl Tutorial : B. Chan : http://www.cbkihong.com/index.pl?op=perltut

• Unix: Visual Quickstart Guide. Ray DS & Ray EJ. Peachpit Press (2003)
• Unix Tutotial : M.Stonebank http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/unixintro.html

Statistics

• Introductory Statistics with R. (2003) Dalgaard, P. Springer ISBN 0-387-95475-9
• The R Project for statistical computing http://www.r-project.org/
• Introduction to Mathematical Methods in Bioinformatics. (2004) Isaev,A. Springer ISBN 3-540-21973-0.

Bioscience

• Genomes (3rd Edition). Brown TA. Bios Scientific Publishers (2007)
• Introduction to Bioinformatics (3rd Edition). Lesk AM. Oxford University Press (2008)
• Introduction to Genomics. Lesk AM. Oxford University Press (2005)
• National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
• European Bioinformatics Instititute : Bioinformatics Tutorials 2can http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/tutorials/index.html