Genomes

by T.A. Brown and Terence A. Brown

Book Overview

While the discipline of genetics looks at single genes one at a time, genomics endeavours to examine all genes as a dynamic system in order to determine how they interact and influence biological pathways and physiology, in a much more global sense.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471250465
• ISBN13: 9780471250463
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Wiley-Liss
• Length: 572 Pages
• Weight: 4.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.4" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent presentation of genomics.

This is an outstanding book, very rich with information and links to other resources, including scientific journals, genomic databases, and tools. The diagrams are concise and used only where they amplify a concept.Genomes is intended for a graduate-level audience and is nowhere near as simplistic as "A Cartoonists Guide to Genetics." The presentation is extremely well organized and thorough, and the author's excitement of the material is evident. Topics covered include the difficulty of programatically locating exon-intron boundaries, the discrepancies between physical & genetic maps and how markers are used in mapping.This is an excellent reference.

Excellent book

An excellent book. Incredible pictures. Starts from a basic enough point for most computer scientists, it even covers many "exceptions" to many of the rules discovered in nature. Even covers microarrays.

Excellent General Overview of Genomics

I found that "Genomes" provides the reader with a thorough yet gentle introduction to the field -- ample illustrations, well-written text, frequent sidebars describing relevant techniques or developments. I've found the book to be a good reference to have on the shelf, and have purchased copies for people when they join my lab group in order to introduce them to or refamiliarize themselves with the technologies underlying the generation of sequence data. I can very easily see this book being used to supplement lectures in an introductory course on genomics and biotechnology.

Review in Heredity (vol 83, Sept 99)

"This is a superb textbook for modern molecular biology. The set-up of the book is very reader-friendly. Everything is cross-referenced, which is enormously helpful. Another nice aspect of the book is the small, digestible sections separate from the main body of text. Overall Brown's book is an excellent textbook that provides a thorough account of what is known about Genomes today."

Genomes vs Genes

Genomes is a very good text and suits my Molecular Biology course perfectly.Whereas Lewin's Genes is didactically poor and full of mistakes, Genomes is clear, concise and extremely well-organised.