The bestselling introduction to bioinformatics and genomics – now in its third edition, Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics by Jonathan Pevsner offers the most comprehensive guide for students and professionals involved in biomedical research. This thoroughly updated and expanded third edition continues to be a go-to source, providing up-to-the-minute coverage of bioinformatics and genomics fields.

New features include extensive revisions and a slight reordering of chapters for better organization, along with a new chapter on next-generation sequencing. The book also boasts an enhanced companion website that is updated regularly with new information. Greater emphasis has been placed on a computational approach, including clear guidance on software tools such as command-line utilities, the R programming language, and NCBI search services.

Accompanied by lavish illustrations and over 500 figures and tables, many newly created for this edition, the book enhances clarity and understanding. Each chapter includes learning objectives, a problem set, pitfalls sections, boxes explaining key techniques and mathematics/statistics principles, summaries, recommended reading, and lists of freely available software. A related web page provides additional resources such as PowerPoints and audiovisual files of lectures, as well as video demonstrations for performing basic operations: www.wiley.com/go/pevsnerbioinformatics.