Solutions to Exercises in Cristianini & Hahn book ?

[hey_gene]

Hey folks.

So, I have a computer science background and am trying to teach myself Bioinformatics.

I'm reading this book:
Introduction to Computational Genomics: A Case Studies Approach (authors: Nello Cristianini, Matthew W. Hahn)


Many of you would be familiar with it (it's a classic).


Because I'm so new to this field, I'm a bit lost overall (I'm simultaneously trying to figure out BioPERL, BLASTing, etc.).


I need the solutions to the exercises in the back of the chapters. Even the first couple of chapters would be enough (I'll figure out the rest from there). If anyone out here has the solutions, or knows where I can access them, please hit me up -- it'll be a huge help.

(Note: the book has an accompanying website with solutions to related case studies, but not to exercises at the back of the chapters)


Thanks!

[dp05yk]

I also come from a computer science background and had to do a lot of self-teaching. Never underestimate the power of wikipedia as a rudimentary educational tool!

I had the advantage of being able to take a Master's level bioinformatics course last year (my master's thesis is a combination of parallel computing/bioinf)... I just looked up every term I didn't understand (which was basically all of them) on wikipedia and it really augmented my learning process. The only advantage the course provided me was a structured learning environment that forced me to self-teach myself, which was facilitated through wikipedia.

Cheers,
Darren