Books by Researchers at NHGRI
Baxevanis, Andreas D., Ouellette, B. F. Francis. Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins, 2nd ed. New York: Wiley-Interscience, 2001.
Covers a broad spectrum of topics in bioinformatics, ranging from Internet concepts to predictive algorithms used on sequence, structure and expression data.
Gelehrter, Thomas D., Collins, Francis S., Ginsberg, David. Principles of Medical Genetics, 2nd ed. Baltimore: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 1998.
Emphasizes essential medical genetics concepts, and features major advances in this rapidly evolving field.
Green, E.D., Birren, B., Klapholz, S., Myers, R.M., and Hieter, P. (Editors) Genome Analysis: A Laboratory Manual (Volumes 1-4) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1997.
Explains how to clone, manipulate, analyze and sequence large segments of DNA, and relate expressed sequence to phenotypic variation.
Nussbaum, Robert L., McInnes, Roderick R., Willard, Huntington F. Thompson & Thompson Genetics in Medicine, 6th ed. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2001.
Reviews basic principles of medical genetics, including recent advances in molecular genetics and resulting clinical applications.
Ochs, Hans D., Smith, Edvard, Puck, Jennifer. Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases: A Molecular and Genetic Approach. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Reviews current understanding of immunology, genetics, and molecular biology and focuses on each of the genetically-determined primary immunodeficiency disorders.
Last updated: July 2003