[{"_1":2,"_70":-5,"_71":-5},"loaderData",{"_3":4,"_33":34,"_68":-5,"_69":-5},"root",{"_5":-5,"_6":-5,"_7":8,"_20":-5,"_21":22,"_23":24,"_27":28},"user","shoppingCartId","shoppingCart",{"_9":10,"_11":12,"_13":14,"_15":16,"_17":18,"_19":12},"count",0,"free",true,"updatedAt","2025-12-21T21:19:19.450Z","paymentGateway","STRIPE","cartItems",[],"loading","toast","locale","en","constants",{"_25":26},"paypalClientId","AX53Cwz8jR6rVVzzZiZNWWXl0dGagi-GZrjG-S3Ua14E5nrKMn7DxDQ730O4R8LusLPp49ALn6aRVaEy","publishers",{"_29":30,"_31":32},"companies",[],"universities",[],"routes/_store+/_readers+/email_author.$slug/route",{"_35":36,"_67":-5},"book",{"_37":38,"_39":40,"_41":42,"_43":44,"_45":46,"_47":48},"id","Z2lkOi8vbGVhbnB1Yi9TdG9yZTo6Qm9va1Byb2R1Y3QvMjI1OTQ","title","Python For The Life Sciences","state","retired","contactAuthorMethod","email","aboutText","

“Fun, entertaining, witty and darn useful. A magical portal to the big data revolution”

-- Sandro Santagata, Assistant Professor in Pathology, Harvard Medical School

“Alex and Gordon’s enthusiasm for Python is contagious\"

-- Glenys Thomson, Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley

\"A lovely book with humor and perspective\"

-- John Novembre, Associate Professor of Human Genetics, University of Chicago

\"Python for the Life Sciences is an excellent tutorial\"

-- Steven J. Mack, Assistant Scientist, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute

If you’re a biologist with little or no experience in programming, but who would like to learn how to write code, Python For The Life Sciences is probably the book you’ve been waiting for!

Python For The Life Sciences is an intuitive and easy-to-follow introduction to computer programming, written specifically for biologists with no computer programming experience.

Virtually all of the examples in the book are drawn from across a wide spectrum of life science research, from simple biochemical calculations and sequence analysis, to modeling the dynamic interactions of genes and proteins in cells, or the drift of genes in an evolving population.

Best of all, we show you how to implement all of these projects in Python, one of the most popular programming languages for scientific computing - a language so versatile and easy to use, that we call it The Swiss Army Knife of Programming Languages.

To get the academic discount for students and teachers, email us at info@amberbiology.com using your email account for your accredited school or college, tell us who are and what department you’re in, and we’ll send you a coupon to purchase the book at the current academic price ($30.00).

The authors of this book are both computational biologists and principals at the digital biology consulting firm Amber Biology, based in Cambridge Massachusetts.

For updates about the book and special offers, please sign up to our mailing list.

","authors",[49,61],{"_37":50,"_51":52,"_5":53},"Z2lkOi8vbGVhbnB1Yi9TdG9yZTo6UHJvZHVjdEF1dGhvci8yMzQ4OQ","name","Gordon Webster",{"_54":55},"avatar",{"_56":57,"_58":59,"_60":12},"url","https://d39qdlcrvnra4b.cloudfront.net/avatars/620593/medium/gw-2012-400sq.png?1458940424","styleName","medium","exists",{"_37":62,"_51":63,"_5":64},"Z2lkOi8vbGVhbnB1Yi9TdG9yZTo6UHJvZHVjdEF1dGhvci8yMzQ5MA","Alex Lancaster",{"_54":65},{"_56":66,"_58":59,"_60":12},"https://d39qdlcrvnra4b.cloudfront.net/avatars/620595/medium/alex.png?1487793061","currentUser","routes/_store+/_layout","routes/_store+/_readers+/_layout","actionData","errors"]

Email the Authors