Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis, 2nd ed. David W. Mount. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2004, 692 pp., $75.00, paperback. ISBN 0-87969-712-1.
2005
The production of a good introduction to the field of bioinformatics has been a very difficult task because of the duality of the target audience. A text that is appropriate for the computer scientist is typically not good for the biologist, and vice versa. Producing a primer that is suitable for both has been a target of numerous authors in the past few years. One of the most successful has been the first edition of David Mount’s book, and so it was that I received this second edition with no little sense of anticipation. Would this be a successful upgrade, or would the changes be merely cosmetic? Furthermore, would the third class of bioinformatics students be well served; namely, those many …
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