Essential Cell Biology
by Bruce Alberts, Dennis Bray, Karen Hopkin, Alexander D Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter · first published 1997
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Cell biology is taught in classrooms around the world to provide students with a firm conceptual grounding in biology. This text provides basic, core knowledge about how cells work and uses colour images and diagrams to emphasize concepts and aid understanding.
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Alberts et al. Essential Cell Biology is a bit less advanced, but I'm finding it very complete, just not quite so exhaustive (pun intended). It's still 700 pages, so you'll get your money's worth (if you buy a used copy).
on “Mitochondria and the origin of eukaryotes” ↗Essential Cell Biology is pretty good one to start (Ch 2-7): https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Cell-Biology-Bruce-Alberts/.... There are numerous books like Machinery of Life that don't go in to enough details. Most books specifically…
on “AlphaFold: Using AI for scientific discovery” ↗…solved the problem of indexing 16,000 PDFs in a directory - google fu did not yield much, surprisingly) - I realized that I needed to pick up more education. Two books I'm making my way through: o Essential Cell Biology, Second Edition - $7+shipping.[1] o Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry, Fourth Edition - $14+Shipping. [2] Plus, the one I really, really want - but used 2004 editions are insanely expensive, and…
on “Who knew cereal was so bad for you?” ↗…Masters program where I live in Europe that is about Bioinformatics, I contacted the co-ordinator and said I could get in if I refresh my Math and Biology with a few books about linear algebra and the book "Essential Cell Biology". So here is the thing. It would take me this year to prepare myself at my own pace for induction and study these. Next year I would start the 2 year Masters and I will graduate when I am 42. I would…
on “Ask HN: Am I too old to switch to Bioinformatics through a Masters?” ↗