genetics books

	Easy Outline of Genetics
	By: William D. Stansfield ISBN: 0071383174 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Release Date: 26 February, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 443616
	Genetics: A Molecular Perspective
	By: William S. Klug, Michael R. Cummings ISBN: 0130085308 Publisher: Benjamin Cummings Release Date: 05 August, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 582241	Genetics: A Molecular Perspective is simply a rearrangement of the chapters in Essentials of Genetics to introduce the student to the concepts surrounding DNA replication and protein synthesis before venturing into the territory of Mendelian genetics and more traditional genetic studies. However, the book comes off as a horrible cut-and-paste job. Students are referred to diagrams that do not exist, references to other chapters in the book are frequently wrong, and concepts are occasionally introduced twice, such as the mechanisms of protein synthesis, which are explained in great detail in chapter 5 before being vaguely introduced in Chapter 8, the original "first" chapter in the book. <br /> <br />Additionally, the layout of the text is very poor. Sometimes, full pages of text wil be followed by a nearly full page of diagrams. Some references to new diagrams require the student to flip several pages to find the diagram. <br /> <br />As a student in a Genetics course, I am surprised that the instructors chose to use this book, considering its many errors. It does contain much good information on the subject of genetics, but the lack of proofreading and editing makes the book hard to read. Students and teachers should choose a different text to use if they wish to learn or teach genetics without the problems associated with poor publishing.
	Fundamental Concepts of Bioinformatics (The Genetics Place Series)
	By: Dan E. Krane, Michael L. Raymer ISBN: 0805346333 Publisher: Benjamin Cummings Release Date: 22 September, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 518454	Bioinformatics is a burgeoning interdisciplinary field that holds great promise in handling large scale biomedical data by computational approaches. The book "Fundamental Concepts of Bioinformatics" is a very important textbook and reference book for both biology and computer science students and researchers, as well as for those professionals in medical science, and the pharmaceutical industry. It goes with saying that many laboratory approaches are expensive and time consuming, and cannot hope to keep up with the rapid growth of available data, making computational approaches indispensable. While a number of books dealing with bioinformatics, most of them are generally limited in scope, and very few of them provide a comprehensive but easy understandable treatment from both computer science and biomedical principles. This book is unique and is well-organized, and provides a systematic but straightforward treatment of the various techniques used for bioinformatics. One of the attractive features of the book is the comprehensive coverage of the various types of data use in bioinformatics analysis, followed by computational approaches that are most suited to the particular data type. This book also helps researchers entering bioinformatics. The reader can quickly identify the chapters that are most relevant to their own interest. It could also be used as a textbook for a senior undergraduate or a graduate level bioinformatics course. It is a valuable resource to both students and researchers, no matter whether they perform experimental research or computer science studies. Computer scientists, mathematicians, and statisticians seeking to discover how bioinformatics is related to well-defined paradigms in computer science could also benefit greatly from this book. Professors Michael L. Raymer and Dan E. Krane have authored many research articles in both computer science and biological science. I highly recommend this book as a great textbook and reference book for both students and researchers. Features <p>First bioinformatics primer for undergraduates. Personable writing style and numerous analogies make this text accessible to undergraduates. <p>Focus on fundamentally important algorithms at the core of bioinformatics. <p>Easy-to-do "paper and pencil" calculations make fundamental algorithms unintimidating for biology students and accessible to students with limited experience in computer programming. <p>Combined expertise (biology and computer science) of author team ensures an integrated approach and an appreciation for the biology and computer science tools and perspectives. <p>End-of-Chapter summaries tie together key concepts and provide real-world examples of the algorithms presented. <p>Detailed solutions to selected text questions are provided in the back of the text so students can check their answers. <p>Annotated Reading Material sections at the end of each chapter direct students to additional resources for further explanation. <p>Questions and problems at the end of each chapter help students apply their understanding of the material.<p> <br> <br>Contents <p>MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY. <br>DATA SEARCHES AND PAIRWISE ALIGNMENTS. <br>SUBSTITUTION PATTERNS. <br>DISTANCE-BASED METHODS OF PHYLOGENETICS. <br>CHARACTER-BASED APPROACHES TO PHYLOGENETICS. <br>GENOMICS AND GENE RECOGNITION. <br>PROTEIN FOLDING. <br>PROTEOMICS.
	A Primer of Ecological Genetics
	By: Jeffrey K. Conner, Daniel L. Hartl ISBN: 087893202X Publisher: Sinauer Associates Release Date: February, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 275514	This is a great textbook that could easily be used in any evolution or genetics class. It clearly describes issues like evolution and natural selection in the context of ecological genetics. The examples are interesting and stay in the reader's mind, and the problem sets and online answers are a great resource. This book also serves as a handy reference guide anytime you need to find a formula or definition. It's appropriate for upper level undergraduate courses or introductory graduate courses. I am a graduate student studying behavioral ecology. I have taken courses in ecological genetics and evolutionary ecology. Most professors don't use a text book of any sort when teaching on these topics. This book is an excellent reference for learning the fundamentals about these topics. It includes current and classic examples from the primary literature as well as a carefully constructed glossary of terms. I highly recommend this resource to both professors teaching courses to upper level undergraduates and graduate students!
	Essential iGenetics (The Genetics Place Series)
	By: Peter J. Russell ISBN: 080534697X Publisher: Benjamin Cummings Release Date: 16 November, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 350922	I received this book quickly and it was in great condition, even better than what I was told!!
	Introduction to Conservation Genetics
	By: Richard Frankham, Jonathan D. Ballou, David A. Briscoe ISBN: 0521639859 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Release Date: April, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 561345
	Solutions Manual/Study Guide to accompany Genetics: From Genes to Genomes, 2nd Edition
	By: Leland Hartwell, Leroy Hood, Michael L. Goldberg, Lee M. Silver, Michael Goldberg, Lee Silver ISBN: 0072462582 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Release Date: 26 March, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 358026	Amazon offers this study guide along with the text book as a package deal. However, the text book is the 3rd edition and the study guide is the 2nd edition, rendering it pretty much useless to my daughter. Please review this closer than my daughter did! I beleive that this is an Amazon issue more so than the fault of the publisher. I purchased this study guide to go with the Thrid Edition of the textbook, as shown with the text book. when i recieved it, i realized that it is the second edtion and is not compatable with the third edition. just be careful of what edition you need it for. This has got to be the worst solution manual I've encountered. My edition is copyrighted in 2004, and it still seems like it is a very rough draft. Although some of the solutions come out to be quite clear, for every one of those there is at least one that either solves the problem with unnecessary complexity or is downright wrong. This causes a lot of confusion and self-doubt for the student. Errors of this type and frequency are tolerable if they come from one's mentor, but when the solution manual comes from a publisher with such reknown as McGraw-Hill, I would expect it to be thoroughly edited and proofread. I would definitely not recommend this item unless they have a revised edition published. In the meantime, one would be much better off asking his or her professor or TA for the solutions, and discussing with them as necessary.
	Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative Reading Text and Genetic Text)
	By: Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Jr., Merton M. Sealts ISBN: 0226321320 Publisher: University Of Chicago Press Release Date: 01 September, 2001 Bioscience book rank: 570258	Stored away in a tin box and unpublished until 1924, "Billy Budd" has since been released in a number of forms. The confused state of the various drafts and manuscripts and the resulting (significant) disparities among the work's many editions have only increased the multiplicity of interpretations of what is already an extraordinarily complex (but not all that difficult) work. Readers' understanding or pleasure of this deeply textured novella may well depend on the text they select; the version widely considered the standard is Hayford and Sealts's "reading text," which is reprinted in any number of editions, including those available from the University of Chicago Press, Penguin, and The Library of America. <br /> <br />"Billy Budd" is often labeled an "unfinished" work--but I think that this intimidating tag does the story an injustice, leading readers to believe that the tale will end mid-sentence, with Billy dangling from the plank of a ship. But this is no "Mystery of Edwin Drood" or "The Castle"; Melville's novel is complete. Instead, one might say it is "unpolished"--although the work's ostensible inconsistencies and errors may have been part and parcel of Melville's clearly unreliable narrator--an aspect common to many of his late works, particularly "Pierre" and "The Confidence-Man." <br /> <br />So what's it about? And, more perplexingly, what does it mean? This tale of the sea relates the adulation and eventual persecution of the ever-trusting Billy Budd, the "Handsome Sailor" on a British merchant ship who, at the book's opening, is forcibly impressed by the warship "Bellipotent." In his new post, the innocent naif is worshipped by the rest of the crew, which arouses the dangerous jealousy of the master-at-arms, John Claggart, the protective watchfulness of the old salt Dansker, and the conflicted paternal instincts of the ship's captain, Edward Vere. The dynamics of the tensions among these four shipmates lead to a horrible accident which tests the principles of each of the survivors. <br /> <br />At its most basic, Melville is a retelling of the biblical tale of Abraham and Isaac (a parallel made explicitly in the text), but in this story God remains aloof: Captain Vere must decide on his own whether Billy is to be sacrificed on the rock of military discipline. And, even more obviously, Billy is the ship's Christ figure. <br /> <br />But, biblical allusions aside, Billy can also be seen as the common man controlled by the paternalism of nobility. The ship from which Billy is kidnapped is the "Rights-of-Man," and "the dry and bookish" Vere (who shares his name with one of the more famous Earls of Oxford) is unsubtly modeled after that idol of conservatism Edmund Burke ("his settled convictions were as a dike against those invading waters of novel opinion social, political, and otherwise"). Billy's eventual transformation as a symbol of the strong arm of the law disguises what's really at stake: is it the preservation of aristocratic power--or the prevention of anarchy? (Melville's own sympathies were equally ambiguous.) More subtle still is the issue of Billy's race, mentioned in passing on the first page of the book: "so intensely black that he must needs have been a native African." Through the compulsory act of impressment, he literally becomes a black slave under the arbitrary white rule of the ship. <br /> <br />The book's finale and its understated aftermath never fail to amaze and sadden me. My amazement results from Melville's ability to turn what could be a treacly ending into a statement on democracy and humankind (much like he did in the less successful "Israel Potter"); the sadness stems from the obvious truth in the author's views on power and subservience. In spite of its being a slim and "unfinished" novella, "Billy Budd" remains one of the most multifaceted classics of American literature. The first time I encountered Billy Budd, I was merely 16 years old and incredibly disappointed with Melville's classic. It was unlike anything I had previously encountered, much to my relief. I was turned off by, in my estimation, its excessive length and wordy sentence structure. I was so turned off, in fact, that I left a less than stellar review of the novella on Amazon. An avid and appreciative reader of classics, I preferred more straightforward reads such as Mark Twain's Huck Finn or Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. <br /> <br />The second time I approached Billy Budd, it was six years later and in an upper level American Literature course. Though I had read it before, I gave it a second try because I had recently read and thoroughly enjoyed Melville's short stories The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids and Bartleby. I was astounded at my changed perspective. No longer was the story cumbersome and confusing; I found that it was a beautifully written, intricately symbolic masterpiece. The story had meaning and each page felt significant, which had gone unnoticed and unappreciated with my first reading. <br /> <br />Though I can't find my old review, I wanted to update my remarks, if not alter them completely. Time and growth allowed me to understand and appreciate this classic. Life is all about timing. If you didn't enjoy this the first time around, perhaps you should give it another try, too. Melville's short novel, Billy Budd, relates the late eighteenth century story of a naive, innocent, young sailor, who is hated by John Claggart, the ship's master-at-arms. Good versus evil, the individual versus society, absolute law versus mercy are all themes in the novel. Billy Budd contains many Christian allusions, and some commentators have suggested the novel is a Christian allegory that depicts the sacrifice of an innocent man. The narrator repeatedly draws comparisons between Billy Budd and Christ and Claggart and Satan. Although the reader must be willing to wade through many unfamiliar allusions and difficult vocabulary, the novel has a simple, but gripping plot line with universal themes.
	Introduction to Risk Calculation in Genetic Counseling
	By: Ian D. Young ISBN: 0195305272 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Release Date: 16 October, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 424894	Is difficult to find such a practical book in this area I THINK THAT THIS BOOK IS NOT ONLY THE BEST IF NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN FULFILL THE GENETICIST CALCULATION REQUIREMENTS! Congratulations to the author!!!!!!!!!!!!! If to a Genetic Counselor the grammar of medical genetics i.e. risk factor calculation and implication of its outcome means everything then this book belongs to the best group of books. Being a student aspiring to be a genetic counselor, I found this book very informative and useful.Written in a simple way,the complex mathematical calculations have been described with the help of many easy to understand examples. All chapters bear the "key points" which divides the chapter into groups without breaking the continuity.After reading this book an immense idea of Statistical Genetics is bound to emerge in the mind of both students and professionals which will give confidence in the clinic. With best wishes to Ian D.Young for this precise & complete attempt in compiling a good reference book for the genetic counselors.
	Statistical Genetics of Quantitative Traits: Linkage, Maps and QTL (Statistics for Biology and Health)
	By: Rongling Wu, Changxing Ma, George Casella ISBN: 0387203346 Publisher: Springer Release Date: 31 July, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 470112