Provides solutions to in-depth problems that face life science researchers and healthcare professionals.

Detailed discussions on biomedical data resources, data standards, data organization, medicolegal and ethical conduct for data miners, and grants-related data sharing responsibilities.

Each chapter begins with a non-technical "Background" section that explains the biomedical issues underlying the Perl scripts that follow.

Basic Perl Programming is covered in Chapters 1 - 3.

Chapter 20 contains every citation within the book with its relevance to biomedicine explained.

Chapters are organized by increasing complexity of biomedical issues, while Perl techniques maintain the same degree of difficulty throughout.

All scripts shown in this book can be downloaded from the Jones and Bartlett website.

Bug notices and corrections are updated as needed.

An extensive Glossary includes Perl commands, demonstration codes, and detailed explanations of specialized terms.