Next-Generation DNA Sequencing Informatics 1st Edition

Good overview of bioinformatics but somewhat outdated. Things changed rapidly since 2013.

I purchased this book hoping to learn some in-depth information about NGS and specifically RNAseq. It is basically an overview of some information related to bioinformatics for NGS data, but rarely dips beneath surface level information. Perhaps it could be considered a decent overview of the variety of NGS informatics topics for those who are unfamiliar with the technology. However, this book gives little insight as to how to produce an actual real world analysis of NGS data-- you will have to go further than this book for that. I did like reading it at some points to get an overall feel for the technology, but if you are looking for in-depth details or a "how to" for analysis, you'd be best advised to find further information, perhaps on the web and through journal articles. Since the software used in the real world for NGS is advancing so quickly, some of the information in the book already seemed a little dated. Overall, if one were very new to NGS analysis and wanted an overview of related topics, this could be an OK option.

very good...................................Good contents, updated.basic conceptscould be smallercolor figuresshould have more information about ngs to detect variants

I found this book useful, however I am totally new to NGS, so I appreciated the summary overview of the technologies, platforms and methods. There is no information on actual analysis if that is what you are looking for. Additionally, this book is now two years old and in a field like this, it is already quite outdated. If you are looking for an overview of NGS and its applications, this is definitely a useful reference, for an actual detailed explanation on how to run the analysis or to run the analysis on a free, web-based platform, which includes self-help tutorials, I'd recommend: https://usegalaxy.org/u/aun1/p/galaxy101 (mentioned in the book) or RNA-seq Data Analysis: A Practical Approach, if your downstream application is RNAseq, as is the case for me.

Less useful than most, publicly available reviews on of the subjects discussed. The tutorials are only links to publicly available material and most information, in my opinion, is either irrelevant or just useless for someone desiring to analyze real data. This very unfortunate, given that this is the only effort that deals with NGS analyses.

A wonderfull book up to date that help me a lot understanding a lot of intricacies of NGS analysis, many topics covered and very easy to read . I highly recommend, it became my bible. \m_