What are good introductory and beginner level Bioinformatic books?
The book which I would recommend as giving a solid introduction to the subject in a reasonable degree of generality is Bioinformatics by Baldi and Brunak. This is a fairly applied introduction which makes use of maths but isn’t about the maths for its own sake. It should be rigorous enough that it doesn’t offend your sensibilities too much whilst still getting across much of the bioinformatics that you want to learn. A couple of other books which might be of interest to you are the following, they are both also fairly introductory but cover slightly more specific areas of bioinformatics and might help you to decide which direction you want to go in: •
