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' in order to extract or format information from various sources. It is written for beginners with no computational knowledge. Basic programming constructs are introduced and applied. With this book, the reader will be able to work in the Unix environment (BSD, Linux, Knoppix, MacOSX, CygWin) and to write programs in order to format and analyse large data files.

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• XML for Bioinformatics
• Perl for Bioinformatics, Second Edition
• Structural bioinformatics approach in determining the functional aspects of the polymerase associated domain in Y-family DNA polymerases
• Methoden der Bioinformatik: Eine Einführung (Springer-Lehrbuch)
• Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics
• Evolutionary Computation for Modeling and Optimization (Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics)
• Functional bioinformatic studies in erythrocyte remodeling by malaria parasites
• An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms (Computational Molecular Biology)
• Handbook of Computational Statistics
• Markov chain Monte Carlo applications in bioinformatics and astrophysics