My Next-Generation DNA Sequencing Informatics book has gone live on the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press website (pre-orders).

http://www.cshlpress.com/link/nextgendna.htm

It has the following chapters (see below). I am going to leak a few pages as a teaser, so I need to know which chapter is most interesting to some random selection of people. Votes will be counted in the comment section for this post.

1. Introduction to DNA Sequencing

Stuart Brown

2. History of Sequencing Informatics

Stuart Brown

3. Visualization of Next-Generation Sequencing Data

Phillip Ross Smith, Kranti Konganti, and Stuart Brown

4. DNA Sequence Alignment

Efstratios Efstathiadis

5. Genome Assembly Using Generalized de Bruijn Digraphs

D. Frank Hsu

6. De Novo Assembly of Bacterial Genomes from Short Sequence Reads

Silvia Argimón and Stuart Brown

7. Genome Annotation

Steven Shen

8. Using NGS to Detect Sequence Variants

Jinhua Wang, Zuojian Tang, and Stuart Brown

9. ChIP-seq

Zuojian Tang, Christina Schweikert, D. Frank Hsu, and Stuart Brown

10. RNA Sequencing with NGS

Stuart Brown, Jeremy Goecks, and James Taylor

11. Metagenomics

Alexander Alekseyenko and Stuart Brown

12 High-Performance Computing in DNA Sequencing Informatics

Efstratios Efstathiadis