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