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Title: Misleading,Superficial and just plain wrong in places
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.
