Title: Disservice to the bioinformatics research community
Product review: This book is written for biologist who mistakenly believe that bioinformatics problems can be can be solved without mathematics, statistics and computer science. The author knowingly avoids these important components of the bioinformatics equation in his presentation and as a result several problems arise. The most noticeable is that the book is almost incomprehensible. David Mount and his editors must realize that verbal descriptions in place of mathematical formalism will not lead to an understanding necessary to solve bioinformatics problems and advance the field. David Mount and authors of similar books will be responsible for raising an entire generation students who can merely repackage preexising software packages and provide ad hoc(theoretically weak)solutions to bioinformatics problems.
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