Computational Biology Unix/Linux, Data Processing and Programming

This book is a practical introduction to Unix/Linux and programming for biologists as well as for chemists and physicists who work in bioinformatics and biophysics. The goal is to learn about the power of the stream editor 'sed' and the programming languages 'awk' and 'perl&...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wünschiers, Röbbe
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2004, 2004
Edition:1st ed. 2004
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I Whetting Your Appetite
  • 1 Introduction
  • II Computer and Operating Systems
  • 2 Unix/Linux
  • III Working with Unix/Linux
  • 3 The First Touch
  • 4 Working with Files
  • 5 Installing BLAST and ClustalW
  • 6 Working with Text
  • 7 Using the Shell
  • 8 Shell Programming
  • 9 Regular Expressions
  • 10 Sed
  • IV Programming
  • 11 Awk
  • 12 Perl
  • A Appendix
  • A.1 Keyboard Shortcuts
  • A.2 Boot Problems
  • A.3 Optimizing the Bash Shell
  • A.3.1 Startup Files
  • A.3.2 A Helpful Shell Prompt
  • A.4 Text File Conversion (Unix ? DOS)
  • A.5 Devices
  • A.6 Mounting Filesystems
  • A.6.1 Floppy Disk
  • A.6.2 CD-ROM
  • A.6.3 PCMCIA and Compact Flash
  • A.7 Nucleotide and Protein Codes
  • A.8 Special Characters
  • Solutions
  • References