In article <mjcoyne-300993170126 at 134.174.147.40> mjcoyne at warren.med.harvard.edu (Michael Coyne) writes:
[...]
>I'm new to sequencing and sequence analysis (DNA and AA), and I'm looking
>for advice on books that may help me out. I'm analysing my seqences using
>the GCG package, but I can't help but think I should understand more of
>what's going on with these programs.
..........
>I have a book by R. F. Doolittle (Of URFS and ORFS - A Primer on How to
>Analyze Derived Amino Acid Seqences) which is exactly the type of thing I'm
>looking for, but it's a little dated (copyright 1987).
>>Anyone have any suggestions for books along these lines that are more
>recent (or particularly good ones of any age)?
I would suggest the following primer books, I usually recommend for
new users :
1. Sequence Analysis Primer
edited by : Michael Gribskov
John Devereux
N Stockton press 1991.
(Examples in this book are output from the gcg package)
2. Methods in Enzymology
vol. 183
Molecular Evolution : Computer Analysis of
Protein and Nucleic Acid Sequences.
Edited by : Russel F. Doolittle
Academic Press, INc 1990.
3. Phylogenetic Analysis of DNA Sequences
edited by : Michael M. Miyamoto
Joel Cracraft
Oxford University Press 1991.
Hope this helps
Fredj Tekaia
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