Ask HN: Computing/Biology Resources?

[fizx]

I never took the opportunity to learn much biology in college, but now as I see computing and biology having increasing impact on each other, I'd love to learn more biology. Anyone have preferences on a good freshman-level biology overview text? Upper-division/graduate level molecular bio? Any potential ideas for opportunites to use programming, data mining, and algorithms experience to break into a hybrid career?

[davi]

I learned from the third edition of this textbook, and it was excellent; maybe others can confirm this for the most recent edition:

Molecular Biology of the Cell - Fifth Edition http://www.garlandscience.com/textbooks/0815341059.asp

You can get a feel for lots of textbooks here, by searching within them for things you're interested in:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=books

[sarosh]

http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=index-html...

and

http://www.ploscompbiol.org/home.action

[bcater]

I really enjoyed Guyton:

http://www.amazon.com/Textbook-Medical-Physiology-Arthur-Guy...

I wasn't a biology major, but from what I understand, this is a standard in the field.

[Rod]

You might find this book useful and interesting:

A Computer Scientist's Guide to Cell Biology http://books.google.com/books?id=nAjhrOyBhIoC

[fizx]

Thank you so much everyone!