Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics

The literature on databases is very large, and so the documentation for your particular RDMS is essential. For this book, I use MySQL, but many others are suitable.

Here are a handful of basic textbooks :

• Database Systems: A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation, and Management , Thomas Connolly and Carolyn Begg (Pearson Addison Wesley)

• A First Course in Database Systems , Jeffrey Ullman (Prentice Hall)

• An Introduction to Database Systems , C.J. Date (Pearson Addison Wesley)

• MySQL , Paul DuBois (SAMS)

• The MySQL Cookbook , Paul DuBois (O'Reilly & Associates)

• MySQL and Perl for the Web , Paul DuBois (SAMS)

• Programming the Perl DBI , Alligator Descartes and Tim Bunce (O'Reilly)