Title: Misleading,Superficial and just plain wrong in places
Product review: This book does NOT live up to the usual O'Reilly Standards fro excellence.The book did little actually convey what working in bioinformatics is about and frankly got a number of things quite wrong.(p.144) NCBI did not invent ASN.1. They just very BADLY implemented a particular semantic variant of it. No one who knows anything about ASN.1 would call it a relational database format.(p.150) the GenBank Flat File format is hardly a 'legacy' format. It and the sister EMBL format are still the formats of choice for serious bioinformatics work involving sequences.(pp. 47-130) O'Reilly already has a fine series of books on using UNIX. That did not need to be recapitulated here.No mention of anything serious like dbSNP,TSC,HGBase etc...Not worth the money.
Would you say this review depicts the product in a flattering or unflattering light?
