I’m interested in a beginner-friendly book that uses a scripting language, preferably Python, and focuses on Computer Science aspects such as data analysis, algorithms, hands-on exercises.
Could someone help me?
We really like the Bioinformatics Algorithms book by Pavel Pezner and Phillip Compeau (from UC San Diego).
It does not assume too much w.r.t. previous experience with bioinformatics or computer science. However, you should have previous programming experience to be able to solve the problems, since there is no Programming 101 style of a tutorial here and stays language agnostic by describing algorithms in pseudocode. The authors have made some chapters freely available online, so you can take a look at the content and see if it is what you are looking for.
Another cool detail here is that you can test your solutions against an online judge on Rosalind as many times as you want - super useful if you are going through a book outside of a course. By the way, If you do want to go through a course there’s a Coursera specialization that closely follows this book (and taught by same the authors).
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