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
Bioinformatics Playlist (2022)
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
Bioinformatics Introduction (2015)
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.