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Summary: Monkey and Alzheimers
Review: "A reader from New York" has the intelligence of a monkey in the final stages of alzheimers. Of course, a monkey could likely understand the figures, which are superbly and clearly drawn. This man is an aspiring scientist? I pray for the future of our scientific research. No doubt this man will have a mediocre career looking at genome research and not thinking for himself.
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Summary: It's earned a spot on my bookshelf
Review: Although many of my college textbooks have been packed away into neat little boxes and shoved into an attic, this one sits on my shelf and will be called into duty in the future. In an ideal world, the author would have written just for me: reordered the chapters, gone into greater detail for some topics and less for others, and inserted images that pertained to the level of detail I needed. However, the world isn't ideal. The book comes as close as any text can to meeting the needs of readers who need the book as a fundamental learning aid and as a reference guide. However, although it's jam-packed with information, it's a little tedious reading through the elementary text to get to what you need. Perhaps he needs to split the book into two texts: an Introductory Genes (Green Genes?) and an advanced text. Overall, worth the money.
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Summary: Nothing special but worth reading..
Review: As you may know, author Ben was an editor-in-chief of "Cell" and his fame is deep impact to sell this book. Actually, I have both 6th and 7th edition but unfortunately, I felt there was nothing special, except the font, text desgin, some crystal structures, adding of "apoptosis" and so on..Although this book is very boring to read, it's worth reading. I recommend this book should get together "Meolecular Cell Biology" (by Lodish et al), if someone who would like to study molecular biology deeply.
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Summary: Simplistic, boring and too bad language and contradictions.
Review: Dear readers,
I will get back at a later time with a fuller review, but can say that it is, for me, an absolute enigma how this book can be understood at all by its readers and how it manages to keep being sold in high volumes. If you put your finger anywhere on any page, you will find equivocous sentences and unclear assumptions. Whenever I use books for longer times, I write suggestion lists for the authors, for coming editions. These lists I group into a) factual errors, b)logical errors, c)linguistic errors and d)suggestions for further general imrpoovment. In this book, my suggestion list became longer than the text itself, for the few chapters in which I had the energy to sustain the project.I will get back soon, as said.
Yours,
Dr G Bassi
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Summary: To assumptive for beginers
Review: I am using this book to prepare for the GRE Subject test in cell and molecular biology and also as a foundation before starting graduate studies. I find that the book offers a broad scope of facts relating to the subject, more specialized than Lodish or Ablerts, neither text can be a substitute. The problem I am encountering is that it does not present many details involved in fact presenting appearently on the assumption that readers have the appropriate background knowlege which takes away greatly from the potential benefit of the book. A suggestion for future editions is to provide some details about the molecular methods involved whenever pertinent.
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Summary: Thinner, more expensive but still maintain its so-so quality
Review: I have a chance to read this new edition of the Genes. It is obviously thinner than the previous edition. The materials presented are roughly the same with some new figures (most of them crystal structure). The drawing figures shown throughout the text are still pretty poor and ugly. They are somehow difficult to understand. The references given are not very up-to-date and most of them come from "Cell" where the author himself is the editor. Well, generally this edition is little bit better than the previous edition in term of modern idea of the field but not that obvious. Try the new edition of Lodish et al., you will see the difference.
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Summary: genesvii is a perfect book
Review: I like the book very much. The words are wonderful and the pictures are good
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Summary: Comprehensive New Edition
Review: I must speculate that some reviewers have yet to receive their PhD or otherwise do not have a full understanding of molecular biology. Part of the genius of this new edition is that it presents the same material in a more concise fashion, without losing its specificity. The Lodish book, on the other hand, is rather clusmy both in its presentation and analysis, and is frequently confused on the intricacies of this field. For a serious student who wishes to really learn this material, this book is certainly the most logical and suitable choice.
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Summary: Genes VII - What's new
Review: I was keen to see this new edition with its supposed emphasis on the characterization of eukaryotic genes. However, I am extremely disappointed with the changes. In fact, on comparing with the previous editions I have, the eukaryotic sections are little more than a rehash. The sections on genome analysis are also little more than a re-write of earlier editions: chapter 3 includes several pages on Cot Analysis - does anyone still do this? One other major concern is the lack of new material/new research -almost all the 'further reading' sections refer to papers pre-1990! Genes was once the best advanced genetics text on the market - I sadly feel that Genes VII no longer holds that position.
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Summary: the best book
Review: In my opinion it is the best book i have partly read by far and every time when i have a free time i intrestingly like to read this book. In fact, i have found it very usefull to undrestand basic meaning of celular and molecular phenomenons and genes.
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