General References:
- J. Setubal and J. Meidanis. Introduction to Computational Molecular
Biology, PWS publ., 1997.
Slim volume, very nicely organized, excellent presentation (aimed at
computer scientists in 1st graduate year), but starting to get dated
and much too expensive.
- D. Gusfield. Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences: Computer
Science and Computational Biology. Cambridge U. Press, 1997.
The definitive reference on algorithms for alignment, mapping, and similarity
search.
- D. Graur and W.-H. Li. Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution,
2nd ed. Sinauer Assoc., 2000. The esssential text on the biological
processes of evolution at the molecular (DNA, genes) level. Not an
algorithmic or computational text, but readable by everyone with an interest
in the area.
- R. Page and E. Holmes. Molecular Evolution: A Phylogenetic
Approach. Blackwell Science, 1998. Very nicely presented, highly
readable, with an even level of presentation; not computationally
oriented: this is a biology textbook written for researchers who want
to get into the area of molecular evolution.
- D. Sankoff and J.H. Nadeau. Comparative Genomics: Empirical and
Analytical Approaches to Gene Order Dynamics, Map Alignment, and the
Evolution of Gene Families. Kluwer Academic Pub., 2000.
A collection of recent research articles by the best people in the field,
with a mix of biology, computer science, statistics, and everything
in-between.
- M.S. Waterman. Introduction to Computational Biology: Maps,
Sequences, and Genomes. Chapman and Hall, 1995 (CRC reprint, 2000).
An excellent reference for the statistical aspects of computational biology,
somewhat dated by now.