Ruby Programming for Medicine and Biology

Download or read book Ruby Programming for Medicine and Biology written by Jules J. Berman and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2008 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once again, Jules J. Berman provides biomedical researchers and hospital professionals with an introduction to a time-saving programming language. In this new how-to manual, Berman expertly guides both experienced and inexperienced programmers through the Ruby programming language. Ruby Programming for Medicine and Biology opens with three chapters of Ruby language instruction followed by discussions of 100 ruby scripts covering the most common computational tasks in the field of biomedicine. With helpful explanations of how scripts work, and how they might be implemented in real-world situations, readers will become familiar with this free, open source, object-oriented programming language that is quickly gaining momentum within the bioinformatics community.