

Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical and Computational Biology
Hardcover: 322 pages
Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC (September 19, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1466595000
ISBN-13: 978-1466595002
Product Dimensions: 1 x 5 x 8 inches
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Having now purchased a few other books on this topic from , I have to say this one is the best if you need an introduction to the field. The others could be 1) downloaded from your university journal subscription, and 2) focus much more on theory and suited better suited for those already familiar with the topic. They could still be useful but I doubt you would use them by themselves - you would probably find yourself looking up a lot of other information online or consulting other books.In contrast, this book is very self-contained. It covers all the basics of RNAseq analysis with a pretty detailed look at a typical pipeline. It covers many different available tools and even has a step-by-step code approach for using many of the common/popular tools. Most of the book uses either R or Bash for the code. It covers, RNA isolation techniques/QC, library prep methods, different sequencing platforms and how to choose, overview of RNAseq applications, preprocessing reads/QC, alignment, transcriptome assembly (including de novo), quantitation, Bioconductor packages, differential gene expression, differential exon usage analysis, annotation, visualization, and small/noncoding RNAseq analysis. I was happy to see that it covers a lot of the QC metrics, what they mean, and in what context they are important. Overall, this is a very thorough book.As a beginners guide it will get you the furthest compared to the other books currently available as of this writing. It will easily get you to that point where you are comfortable enough with the terminology and general pipeline for you to easily search for the answer to more detailed and specific questions online which is the biggest hurdle for this field.
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