Building Bioinformatics Solutions

Follow Us on Twitter

Want to know what Conrad and Darren are doing now? Well, now you have the opportunity to find out (depending what they post!) by following them on Twitter:

twitter.com/dazoakley
twitter.com/conradbessant

Install MySQL and DBD::MySQL on Mac OS X

In chapter 3 we promised to keep a guide to installing DBD::MySQL on Mac OS X up to date on the website as in the past (on older versions of Mac OS X) this has been at best a tricky operation, and at other times a down right pain. Sorry it has taken a while to materialize (the book has been out several months already), but we hope this should do the trick.

I’ve just posted the guide on the forum as this is probably a better place for handling any support that might be needed (rather than the comments here). Head on over to the forum for the full article.

The Book Is Out!

Due to popular demand, publication of Building Bioinformatics Solutions in the UK was brought forward to Thursday, 27 November so it’s out right now. Publication dates in other territories should also move forward a few weeks as a result. You can get it from Amazon UK, Amazon US and all the other usual places.

New Site!

If you’re reading this post and have ever visited this site before you may have noticed a small change - welcome to the new bixsolutions.net! For all new visitors, welcome to you too!

We’ve been busy updating the site in preparation for the release of the book, as we think this site will be a great companion to the text. The aim of this site is to support the book in the following ways:

• To provide news about the publication of the book and any other material deemed appropriate.
• To host information on any errors (and corrections for these errors) found within the text/content of the book.
• To host supporting files and code examples that are referred to within the text of the book.
• To host a discussion forum both for people working through the book, and for anyone else who might be interested in joining in on the discussions.

We hope you find this site useful, and we look forward to speaking to you all on the forums soon!