Аннотация
Only a few years ago, programming was a prerogative of computational scientists. Notwithstanding this, programming is increasingly becoming a need of specialists in other fi elds such as biology. As a biologist, you are not necessarily interested in becoming an expert programmer, but you want to continue your scientif i c endeavors using programming as one of many tools. You may already have realized that programming techniques would dramatically speed up the management and analysis of your data.
Maybe you want to deal with large amounts of data, repeat the same kind of analysis several times, or parse fi les with unusual formats. We can assure you that in all these cases programming is very useful. However, you may feel uncomfortable because you never had much interest in a “dry” and “conceptually hard” discipline such as computer science. In that case, this book is for you.
We wrote this book for life scientists who want to have more control of their data and, for this, need to learn some programming. It is aimed at empowering biologists without prior programming experience to work with biological data on their own using Python.
In the Preface, you will fi nd a summary of what you can learn reading this book and an introduction of what a program is, followed by an over-view of the Python programming language.
We hope that this book on programming is tailored to your needs as a biologist and will help you analyze your data and thus increase the likeli-hood to make better discoveries.
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