Some Background Reading in Molecular Biology
(Not required before start of conference)
INTERNET RESOURCES
HARD COPY RESOURCES
Two other hard-copy introductory sources I personally like are
* Cartoon guide to genetics, Gonick and Wheelis, Harper Collins 1991.
* Understanding DNA and gene cloning: A guide for the curious (3rd ed.),
Karl Drlica, John Wiley & Sons 1997.
Two other popular sources I have seen favorable reviews about are
* The Way Life Works, by Mahlon Hoagland and Bert Dodson, ISBN
0812928881.
* Molecular Biology Made Simple and Fun by David Clark
and Lonnie Russell, ISBN 0962742295
For more detailed information, the National Library of Medicine
(NIH) provides excellent molecular biology textbooks free online (at
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Books) including a
classic reference by Lodish, et al's Molecular Cell Biology 4th
edition (1999).
SOME REFERENCE TEXTS IN COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
* Introduction to Computational Molecular Biology, Setubal and Meidanis, PWS 1997.
* Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic models of proteins and nucleic acids, R. Durbin, S. Eddy, A. Krogh and G. Mitchison, Cambridgr Univ. Press 1998.
* Introduction to Computational Biology: Maps, Sequences and Genomes, Michael Waterman, Chapman & Hall 1995.
* Computational Molecular Biology: An algorithmic approach, Pavel A. Pevzner, MIT Press 2000.
* Algorithms on strings, trees and sequences: Computer Science and Computational Biology, Dan Gusfield, Cambridge Univ. Press 1997.