Chapter 1 About this book

In this book, I describe some practice work you can do to get more familiar with bioinformatics.

This book is written in bookdown, which is a R tool for webpublishing. Besides the online version offered here, you can also download the PDF and epub version for offline reading.

1.1 How to use this book

You can use this book as the start off point in your bioinformatic journey. You will not find everything explained here, but you’ll find links to sources that will set you on your way. The online versions has controls for accessibility (Figure below).

1.2 Funding

This book was written by Sibbe Bakker with support from the Wageningen university Fund and the INREF project.