The book BioInformaticswith R Cookbook is a 340 pages book published by PACKT publishing last June.
The book is intended for individuals working on the areas of biology and
genetics. Most of the techniques and type of analysis (i.e. sequence, protein
structure, microarray, etc.) discussed in the book are tailored for
practitioners handling genomics data. A typical cookbook style material, the
focus of the book is on how to implement the above mentioned techniques using
R. The book also tackles procedure on how to connect with genomics databases
such as Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) and Gene Ontology as
through the Bioconductor platform. It
also tackles access some cloud base implementation of R. The structure of the discussion is very helpful and easy to
follow. The How to Do it, How it works, and There’s more.. sequence
of discussion provides readers a good guide and grasp on the techniques that
are being discussed.
On the other hand, the book is somehow lacking in the
discussion of the basics of R software (i.e. intro to the language and data
type). The book assumes that the readers have already acquired these basic know
how about the language.
Overall, the book is a good reference material especially for
individuals dealing with data on biology and genomics.
