Assumptions_This_Book_Makes____Bioinformatics_Data_Skills____reading_notes_190101

To put it forward here. The Book was written by Vince Buffalo,which offers me the precious opportunity to enjoy the journey of learning bioinformatics. The reading notes,to help myself have a better understanding, are extrated from the awsome works created by the author.Copyright © 2015 Vince Buffalo. All rights reserved.
 

1.1. Chapter 2 : the basics of setting up a bioinformatics project

1.2. Chapter 3 : Unix topics

2. The assumptions:

2.1. know a scripting language

the book's biggest assumption. Python and R programs are introduced in some chapters. 

Recommend Books :

                     Bioinformatics Programming Using Python.   by Mitchell L. Model

                     Learning Python, 5th Edition,   by Mark Lutz

                     Python in a nutshell. 2nd , By Alex Martelli

2.2. know how to use a text editor

                     text editor and word processor

2.3. basic Unix command-line skills

                    Unix file hierarchy; relative versus absolute directories;

  beginner-level book:

                   Practical Computing for Biologists, by Steven Haddock

                   UNIX and Perl to the Rescue, by Keith Bradnam and Ian  Korf

2.4. basic understanding of biology

                  skim Wikipedia artical

2.5. basic understanding of regular expressions

      Books: 

                Introducing Regular Expressions, by Michael Fitzgerald

nowaday, writing,testing and debugging regular expressions is easier than ever thanks to online tools like :

                         http://regex101.com/                http://www.debuggex.com/

2.6. Know how to get help and read documentation

tools like man(in Unix) and help () ( in R ) 

2.7. Can manage computer system(or have a system administrator)

constantly back up your data and work . Unix to execute a command  that destroys files--- your best protection from losing everything is continual backups.