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!bookworms !math !physics !chemistry a thread to recommend textbooks either for other stemcels wishing to get a deeper understanding of their fields or for hobbyists who want to learn (please state the necessary knowledge to use the textbook. E.g. a Fluid Dynamics textbooks will require the user to know Differential Equations and Calculus 3).
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Honestly with bio its hard to recommend a textbook. Shit moves so fast that even new textbooks are like 5 years out of date. It takes like 5 years for something to become established enough to hit textbooks, then another 5 years for those books to disseminate into undergraduate content. The latest edition of any mainstream Microbio book will be fine I feel but bio and medicine moves way way to fast for textbooks to be viable past undergrad. Going into grad school or a job is basically being slapped in the face lol. In terms of textbooks ive kept I still have this micro textbook
Which has been renamed to Microbiology : Principles and Explorations for its most recent editions so id go for that for the most accurate stuff.
and I have this book which seems to be the most recent edition but informatics moves so fast lots of traditional anaylsis methods like functional enrichment and DESEQ2 are being called into question.
I also have the third special edition of the C++ book (basically version 3.5 in that it came out before the 4th edition but contains many corrections and additions to the third edition).Naturally the most recent 4th edition would be best since C++ quickly evolves but slightly older textbook versions are always cheaper (the 4th edition goes for like 40$ while the 3rd special edition goes for 5$)
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Wdym?
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its not like these textbooks are super wrong but they are very simplfied and our ubderstanding of genetics grows more and more complex by the year. Textbooks rn follow a very simplifed central dogma and one gene one primer para dime. Now we know a promoter region can be on an entirely different chromosome and regulates hundreds of chromosomes. Plus things like rna half life, ribosome avalibility, and trna availability and effect translation more then transcription rates. One piece of mRNA with a long half life can be reused endlessly to make more proteins then thousands of mRNAs which a short half life and limited ribosomal binding affinity.
There is ribozymes, so many types of RNA ect. !biology
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This is true on Bioprocess engineering too. The book I linked was given to me at the beginning of my masters (2020) but it was already missing new info at that point. In 2024 it's missing even more
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My profs only include textbooks because the university requires it. Most just say "well the book is there if you want to hear the material in another way" only my intro to database class required the textbook but programming fundamentals dont move as fast depending on the language.
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Ty for reminding me why I gave up on my bio dream at 13
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not reading your substack
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