An error that needs to be fixed: what it calls haplotype is an allele. A haplotype is something else.
I feel ambivalent about this kind of introduction to biology for computer scientists because it removes all the biology. It’s perhaps enough to let a programmer orient themselves to the data and operations on it that go sequence data, but I have found it gives a false confidence that these abstractions are useful ways to think when addressing biological problems.
I love the idea! As a bioinformatician, the biology portion always feels more obscure to find simple references for the biological concepts to point people towards, compared to documentation for software.
I used to work in a company that was doing DNA sequencing and at that time read more on the topic. These resources helped me a lot:
Bert Hubert’s articles are top-notch! This older post in nice too : https://bert-hubert.blogspot.com/2013/12/hello-and-welcome-to-wonderful-world-of.html
An error that needs to be fixed: what it calls haplotype is an allele. A haplotype is something else.
I feel ambivalent about this kind of introduction to biology for computer scientists because it removes all the biology. It’s perhaps enough to let a programmer orient themselves to the data and operations on it that go sequence data, but I have found it gives a false confidence that these abstractions are useful ways to think when addressing biological problems.
I love the idea! As a bioinformatician, the biology portion always feels more obscure to find simple references for the biological concepts to point people towards, compared to documentation for software.