In my opinion, essentials of bioinformatics by Jin Xiong is the ideal book to start out with from the basic level. I really enjoy reading the book and have taken to it many times when I've been in doubt. Once you're clear with the fundamentals you can refer to books like Baxevanis or David Mount.

In my opinion, essentials of bioinformatics by Jin Xiong is the ideal book to start out with from the basic level. I really enjoy reading the book and have taken to it many times when I've been in doubt. Once you're clear with the fundamentals you can refer to books like Baxevanis or David Mount.

Bioinformatics Sequence Structure and Databanks

I have taught a course using the Pevsner book (http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470085851.html). I think that it is very well rounded and provides good supporting explanations for complex concepts.

Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis Paperback 

by David W. Mount (Author)

Bioinformatics for Dummies is good for beginners but take a fresh edition because links can be not valid.

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Bioinformatics for Dummies for start then study

Bioinformatics Sequence and genome [David W.Mount]

Essential Bioinformatics BY JIN XIONG

I think this book is great: http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org and also "Essential Bioinformatics" by J XIONG

Bioinformatics for Biomedical Science and Clinical Applications, ISBN: 1907568441

Bioinformatics Methods in Clinical Research, ISBN: 1603271937

Bioinformatics: A Biologist's Guide to Biocomputing and the Internet, ISBN: 188129918X

I recommend this book for teaching bioinformatics graduate classes. It covers various aspects from cell biology to basic statistics and methods for biological data analysis. I particularly like the analogies, which make it a fun and easy read. It was published in 2011 and has practice and proposed problems for students to solve. It comes with a CD with R code that you can use in the lab. 

Statistics and Data Analysis for Microarrays Using R and Bioconductor, Second Edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical and Computational Biology) http://www.amazon.com/Statistics-Microarrays-Bioconductor-Mathematical-Computational/dp/1439809755/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422476470&sr=8-1&keywords=sorin++draghici

Bioinformatics for dummies would be a good choice for B.Sc level.

There are a lot of books when you chech from different websites.

Please check this website and decide which one are much more useful for students.

http://www.iscb.org/iscb-publications-bioinformatics-review/35-ISCB%20Publications/ISCB%20Publications/125-booklistaikchoontan

http://www.iscb.org/iscb-publications-bioinformatics-review/35-ISCB%20Publications/ISCB%20Publications/125-booklistaikchoontan

Essential bioinformatics - Book by Jin Xiong

http://www.tok.ro/toksite/downloads/Bioinformatika/Konyvek/konyvek%20bioinfo%20fejezetekkel%20+%20bioinfo%20konyvek/Essential%20Bioinformatics.pdf

take this

Very nice AbdelRahman!  Enjoy your reading! 

Bioinformatics Edited by BAXEVANIS AND OUELLETTE

This is a practical guide to the Analysis of Genes and Protein

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Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis by David Mount

Bioinformatics for Beginners: Genes, Genomes, Molecular Evolution, Databases and Analytical Tools by Supratim Choudhuri

I would recommend "Understanding Bioinformatics":

http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Bioinformatics-Marketa-Zvelebil/dp/0815340249

I researched the topic extensively (on introductory books) some time ago, and went on buying this book. It is also top rated on Amazon, and has good graphics.

The only downside for me personally, is that I realized that it was a little to introductory for me (having worked in bioinformatics a bit already, albeit on the infrastructure side), so I are now looking into the Bioinformatics Algorithms books by Pavel Pevzner.

I also recommend this book.

https://cengage.com.au/product/division/higher/title/the-book-of-informatics-revised-edition/isbn/9780170216005

It is a good idea that I approve

Bioinformatics: Applications in Life and Environmental Sciences

edited by M. H. Fulekar

You can also try this one: Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy: A How To Manual, Fourth Edition by Barry G. Hall. very easy to understand. I used it myself back in 2009 and I still visit it once a while.

The best text book for Bioinformatics is the one by prof. David Mount - titled - " Bioinformatics - Genome and Sequence Analysis". Other good ones are the ones by Arthur M Lesk and for a practical viewpoint the one by Baxevanis and Oulette.

I think it depends to which kind of biological problem you are thinking about. The methodologies and how to apply them that would be interesting for Genetics could be different to Fisheries for example. Bioinformatics is a very broad term.

I could also recommend other resources like MOOCs. In coursera.org there are several bioinformatic courses wich are very fun. I think your students will enjoy them.

Many thanks to all of you for some very helpful suggestions. Thanks Adolfo for directing me towards Coursera. I have done FutureLearn courses before, and they were great, so I am sure that students will benefit from online courses on bioinformatics. Do you have any particular recommendations for courses?

It depends on the subjects you want, however, the "Bioinformatics algorithms part 1" by Pavel Pevzner, Phillip E. C. Compeau, Nikolay Vyahhi (UC San Diego) was specially fun and helpful to me.

Thanks for all the book suggestions. I think that the consensus is with the Mount text, so we will order a copy of that, but may look to supplement that with some of the other suggestions based on how we get on with Mount. Cheers everybody!

Many thanks for all of these answers. In the end it looked liked there were most comments in favour of the book by David Mount, and we were also able to get a copy of that used for a good price. Many thanks for all of the valuable contributions. Cheers, James

Many thanks

My new book "Bioinformatics and the cell" (2018, 2nd edition, Springer) covers advanced topics with numerous detailed numerical illustrations. It is available free at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-90684-3 (for institutions with SpringerLink subscription). One may also get from that link a hardcopy for $24.99.

Hi,

I am attaching a book by Jin Xiong titled: Essential Bioinformatics. It is like a Bible for bioinformaticians.

All the best.

Regards,

DAMBE: data analysis in molecular biology and evolution. BY Xuhua Xia is one of those books that introduced me to the area of Bioinformatics and molecular data analysis in silico , it entails the use of a wonderful software. I highly recommend reading it for those who want to learn and apply. Xuhua Xia

Thank you, Shad. I am in the process of updating DAMBE: data analysis in molecular biology and evolution. Shad Mohammed

Hello

Bioinformatics for Dummies

Book by Cedric Notredame and Jean-Michel Claverie

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Essential bioinformatics

Book by Jin Xiong

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Introduction to bioinformatics

Book by Arthur M. Lesk

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Bioinformatics

Textbook by Jeremy Ramsden

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Good Luck.