Written in attractive, clear style, Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills is for scientists and students who are learning computational approaches to biology, as well as for experienced biology researchers who are just beginning to use computers to handle their data. This book covers the Unix file system, building tools and databases for bioinformatics, computational approaches to biological problems, introduction to Perl for bioinformatics, data mining, data visualization, and tips to adapt existing software for data analysis needs of individual research.