Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution

"In the current era of complete genome sequencing, Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution provides an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to bioinformatics in the context of evolutionary biology. This textbook will equip readers with a thorough understanding of the quantitative methods...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paul G Higgs
Other Authors: Teresa K Attwood
Format: Printed Book
Published: Malden, MA Blackwell Pub 2005
Subjects:
Molecular evolution > Mathematical models. Bioinformatics. Computational Biology.
Table of Contents:
  • The revolution in biological information
  • Nucleic acids, proteins, and amino acids
  • Molecular evolution and population genetics
  • Models of sequence evolution
  • Information resources for genes and proteins
  • Sequence alignment algorithms
  • Searching sequence databases
  • Phylogenetic methods
  • Patterns in protein families
  • Probabilistic methods and machine learning
  • Further topics in molecular evolution and phylogenetics
  • Genome evolution
  • DNA microarrays and the 'omes.

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