Introductory Texts

Book-length introduction to the field, intended as a study companion 

  

Note: open the link from the catalog and scroll down to the chapter 

Brief overview of bioinformatics, including terminology 

  

Note: you may need to log into the O’Reilly site first using your Northeastern email to access this resource 

Collection of readings about bioinformatics and bioinformatics tools, including using R and Python 

  

Note: You will need to request this book be brought from offsite storage, which usually takes 1-2 days. 

Book-length general introduction to bioinformatics 

  

Open web source from the National Human Genome Research Institute, helpful for terminology 

  

Coursera: There are at least two Bioinformatics courses being offered for free from Coursera. One is from UC San Diego and the other is from Peking University.  

Practice Examples and Tutorials

Note: You will need to request this book be brought from offsite storage, which usually takes 1-2 days. 

Book-length general introduction to bioinformatics, containing problems and innovative Weblems (for Web-based Problems) 

  

A project of Iowa State University and SCINet, this site contains numerous tutorials. 

  

Free open web course that contains labs for practicing concepts taught in the course 

Software

Software 

“Computer Tools to Analyze Microarray Data” (2019; open the link from the catalog and scroll down to the chapter) 

Overview of tools used for microarray data  

  

Additionally, the library contains resources to help support software, including guides for programs like R.