Bioinformatics for Systems Biology Book

This book has a remarkably comprehensive overview of diverse undergraduate courses, such as cell biology and genetics. I really enjoyed it at first and was reading mostly out of pleasure. But some aspects of it eventually chilled my interest. First, the illustrations were scarce and useless, which is blasphemous for a biology textbook. Second, as an introductory book to bioinformatics, I can’t imagine a good reason why PubMed and Medline would be discussed thoroughly, but not NCBI. PubMed is barely equivalent to NCBI’s left earlobe. This is not acceptable. Also, why skip pairwise sequence alignments and start directly with MSAs? But of course, not all books can cover everything, and bioinformatics is a vast and tricky field. Forgiven and recommended.