Books
Biological Computation (CRC Press)
This book (written with Ehud Lamm) is about computational models and techniques inspired by biology. The four major topics we focus on are cellular automata, evolutionary computation, neural networks, and molecular computation. Each of these topics is the subject of a chapter that begins by exploring the biological background and then moves on to describe the computational techniques, followed by examples of applications and a discussion of possible variants of the basic techniques introduced in the chapter. Each chapter also includes exercises and solutions. The book is self-contained and aimed as a textbook for a course in Biological Computation for advanced undergraduates / early graduates in computer science or bioinformatics programs, but is also suitable for self-study for any interested reader. For a look inside the book (including the first two chapters) and order information go to Amazon. SLIDES from my course in Bar-Ilan are available here.
Bioinformatics Study Guide (Hebrew)
This book in Hebrew (written with Ada Nir and Steven Becker) is a study guide for Bioinformatics covering topics like sequence alignment (pairwise and multiple), data base searches, phylogenetic analysis, genome analysis, RNA structure prediction, Protein analysis and Microarray analysis. This book was written to accompany the book "Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome analysis" by David W Mount (CSHL Press) which is used as the main text book in a course on Bioinformatics developed by the authors in the Open University in Israel. However, the book can be used a stand alone textbook in Hebrew on the main subjects in Bioinformatics. The book can be ordered from Lamda - the book store of the Open University.