Table of Contents

1: Introduction: Explorations and Indexes
2: Essential First Steps
3: Playing with DNA Sequences (and words) Using Regular Expressions
4: Your First Perl Programs with a Focus on String Analysis
5: Using Perl to Do Calculations
6: Making Decisions Over and Over Again with Perl's "if" and "while"
7: Subroutines
8: Accessing Files of Sequences from Databases
9: Arrays
10: Hash Tables
11: Phrasing Questions by Writing Algorithms
12: Regular Expressions Revisited
13: Understanding Randomness
14: Modules
15: Conclusions
Appendix I
Appendix II
Bibliography