Title: Counter to review from Sep 8
Product review: The review from September 8 expresses an opinion which is the exact opposite of mine, and is worded so strongly that I have to object. I gave a course using the book to bioinformaticians, most of them with a computer science background, and found the book exceptionally well prepared and suitable for a graduate course. The book serves the dual purpose of an introduction and a reference. An especially nice feature is how the authors explain the relationships and differences between different methods. By doing so, they provide context which I have not seen in any other book on this subject. The book is a very nice combination of basic theory and performance evaluation on data from a wide variety of domains and it is quite up-to-date. It has a well developed website going with it and the graphical material can be obtained electronically from the publisher. The book is an outstanding contribution to the field.
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