This site is a companion for the book Bioinformatics For Dummies. It gives you the possibility to access, with just a click of the mouse, every site that we list in the book. It also gives us the opportunity to make sure that the links remain up to date.

In accordance with the book's philosophy, this list is all but exhaustive and it reflects our personal selection of the sites we like best. If you feel that an extraordinary resource is missing, do not hesitate to send it to us at bioinformatics4dummies@europe.com.

For your convenience, we have listed the resources chapter by chapter, following the order in which they appear in the book. Along with the chapters the authors have provided images and diagrams used in the book. You may go to the corresponding chapter to download that specific chapter or you may download the entire collection here. images.zip
(All images are kept in .zip archives. You may download winzip a utility to open the archives.)

Chapters:

Chapter 1 Finding Out What Bioinformatics Can Do for You
Chapter 2 How Most People Use Bioinformatics
Chapter 3 Using Nucleotide Sequence Databases
Chapter 4 Using Protein and Specialized Sequence Databases
Chapter 5 Working with a Single DNA Sequence
Chapter 6 Working with a Single Protein Sequence
Chapter 7 Similarity Searches on Sequence Databases
Chapter 8 Comparing Two Sequences
Chapter 9 Building a Multiple Sequence Alignment
Chapter 10 Editing and Publishing Alignments
Chapter 11 Working with Protein 3-D Structures
Chapter 12 Working with RNA Structures
Chapter 13 Building Phylogenetic Trees
Chapter 15 Some Useful Bioinformatics Resources