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Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics
	Copyright
	Table of Contents
	Preface
	1. Biology and Computer Science
	2. Getting Started with Perl
	3. The Art of Programming
	4. Sequences and Strings
	5. Motifs and Loops
	6. Subroutines and Bugs
	7. Mutations and Randomization
	8. The Genetic Code
	9. Restriction Maps and Regular Expressions
	10. GenBank
	11. Protein Data Bank
	12. BLAST
	13. Further Topics
	A. Resources
	B. Perl Summary
		B.1 Command Interpretation
		B.2 Comments
		B.3 Scalar Values and Scalar Variables
		B.4 Assignment
		B.5 Statements and Blocks
		B.6 Arrays
		B.7 Hashes
		B.8 Operators
		B.9 Operator Precedence
		B.10 Basic Operators
		B.11 Conditionals and Logical Operators
		B.12 Binding Operators
		B.13 Loops
		B.14 Input/Output
		B.15 Regular Expressions
		B.16 Scalar and List Context
		B.17 Subroutines and Modules
		B.18 Built-in Functions
	Colophon
	Index

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