It can be hard to get a sense of whether a book like ours is right for you just based on the Amazon listing (which we don’t have direct control over as authors). To address that problem, I figured I’d write a short series of blog posts dedicated to providing insight into “What’s in the can?”, ie what our book is about, and what it’s like to work through, to supplement the information provided in the listing.

Hi! My name is Geraldine Van der Auwera; I’m one of the two authors of Genomics in the Cloud, an O’Reilly animal book about the science of genomics and how to apply it in practice using cloud computing infrastructure. On behalf of my coauthor Brian O’Connor and myself, I’d like to introduce this blog with a brief mission statement to set expectations about what you’re likely to find here.