Pavel A. Pevzner

A bit of a mathematician's view of what parts of biology are interesting or important, but much more readable than Pevzner's previous book. We use it with graduate students, despite its nominal undergraduate level, supplementing with recent papers and coverage of some areas it doesn't address in biology. It's also very Algorithms-focused; nothing in here about databases or practical bioinformatics.

Nominally a graduate text, but this is really dense going unless your grad students have strong math/theory backgrounds. Not suitable for use on biologists.