Preface
1. Introduction to Perl Programming
2. Using Perl Modules and Applying Some Fundamental Commands
3. File/Directory Operations and Text Transformations with Regular Expressions
4. Indexing Text
5. Autocoding Biomedical Data with Nomenclatures
6. Searching and Mining Data
7. Cryptography and Deidentification
8. Scrubbing Data
9. Finding and Exchanging Data Through the Worldwide Web
10. Creating, Parsing, and Transforming XML
11. Metadata, Ontologies, and the Meaning of Everything
12. Mathematical Functions
13. Statistics and Epidemiology
14. Modeling Biological and Medical Systems
15. Bioinformatics
16. Network Computing
17. A Quick Peek at Object-Oriented Programming
18. Use-Case: A Digital Image Specification in RDF
19. Use-Case: Data Mining OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man)
20. References (Commented)
21. Appendix
22. Glossary
23. List of Perl Scripts
24. Index
25. Nota Bene