Having just completed an introductory graduate level course in bioinformatics without the aid of a textbook I purchased Bioinformatics Computer Skills to serve as a reference manual because it covered many of the topics that we learned about in class.
This book gives a sufficient introduction to many important hardware and software tools currently used in the bioinformatics field. At the very minimum, this book introduces the language that will allow you to 'talk the talk'. However, to 'walk the walk' (e.g. write your own programs, set up a lab-wide bioinformatics core facility) additional study will no doubt be required.
This book will not make you a bioinformatics expert, but if you are in molecular biology/biochemistry and currently know nothing about all the hardware (e.g. UNIX systems) and software (e.g. BLAST) that you use on a daily basis, then this book should serve as a useful and readable introduction.
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