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Life Out of Sequence is Hallam Stevens's history of bioinformatics, tracing how computers and database thinking reshaped biology from the 1960s onward. It is a scholarly but readable account of how sequencing, data banks and software turned biology into an information science. It suits readers interested in the history of science, computing or the people behind genomics. It is denser and more academic than popular science bestsellers on the genome, and assumes some patience with institutional detail.
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Reviewers treat it as a solid, well-researched academic history that fills a gap between biology and computing history. They praise its archival depth and framing of biology as information science, while noting it is dense and best suited to specialists.