| > [...] where we mostly learned things from outdated books I can recommend 3 really good books, SICP-level good: 1. Biological Sequence Analysis by Durbin et al. How to model DNA, RNA and proteins as probabilistic languages / generative models. There is also a companion book with all exercises solved. 2. Physical Biology of the Cell by Phillips et al. A massive amount of quantitative cell biology models that use simple undergrad physics. Originated from a Caltech course. After reading this book, all other intro to biology books look like a bag of tricks. 3. An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits by Alon. Bacterial circuits from the perspective of an electrical engineer. Sadly, NSF discontinued funding for a totally epic Cold Spring Harbor Summer school for postdocs that taught [2,3]. A shame, we need more quantitative biology and less bags of tricks. |