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Java APIs for Bioinformatics -- This introduction to Java APIs for bioinformatics includes usage information, examples, and current design challenges for API developers in the life sciences field. You'll find all of O'Reilly's books and articles on bioinformatics at bio.oreilly.com.

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A Chromosome at a Time with Perl, Part 2 -- In the conclusion to his two-part series on using Perl in the bioinformatics realm, James Tisdall shows how references can speed up a subroutine call, how to bypass the overhead of subroutine calls entirely, and how to quantify the behavior of your code. James is the author of Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics.

A Chromosome at a Time with Perl -- James Tisdall offers a handful of tricks that will enable Perl programmers to write performance-efficient code for dealing with large amounts of biological sequence data. James is the author of Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics.

Twenty-First Century Rocket Science -- Bioinformatics, genomics, proteomics: these are the buzzwords of the twenty-first century. Ian Korf shows you how to use BLAST, Unix, and Perl to do some cutting-edge science, with a PC from the comfort of your living room. Ian is a coauthor of BLAST.

Sequence Database Data Formats -- Bioinformatics, as we know it today, exists because of the vast number of sequence databases created in the last 15 years. Part 1 of Sequence Analysis in a Nutshell explains the more popular flat file formats and focuses on describing, in detail, their sometimes cryptic content. Get a free trial to read this and four other O'Reilly books on Safari.

An Interview with George Dyson -- In this interview with chromatic, George Dyson talks about his upcoming OSCON keynote in which he'll explore the pioneering work in computation and computational biology at the Institute for Advanced Study, drawing parallels between that world and open source development.

Grid Engine 5.3p3 Is Now Ready -- This patch release changes the binaries, the architecture independent files ("common" package), and the documentation ("doc" package). The updated PDF documentation set for SGE and SGEEE is provided by Sun Microsystems as a courtesy contribution for users of the Grid Engine open source software.

Sift, Stir, Code: O'Reilly Cookbooks -- Looking for the right ingredients to solve a programming problem? Look no further than O'Reilly Cookbooks. Each cookbook contains hundreds of programming recipes presented in a special Problem/Solution/Discussion format, and includes hundreds of scripts, programs, and command sequences you can use to solve specific dilemmas. Get your daily recipes and view our complete list of Programming Cookbooks for Geeks.

Stein Gives Bioinformatics Ten Years to Live -- In his continuing coverage from the conference floor, Daniel H. Steinberg reports on Lincoln Stein's keynote, "Bioinformatics: Gone in 2012," at the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference. Get all the news from this year's event on O'Reilly Network's BioCon 2003 Conference Coverage page.