Bioinformatics for biologists
"The computational education of biologists is changing to prepare students for facing the complex datasets of today?s life science research. In this concise textbook, the authors? fresh pedagogical approaches lead biology students from first principles towards computational thinking. A team of...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press ,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Identifying the genetic basis of disease
- 2. Pattern identification in a haplotype block
- 3. Genome reconstruction: a puzzle with a billion pieces
- 4. Dynamic programming: one algorithmic key for many biological locks
- 5. Measuring evidence: who's your daddy?
- 6. How do replication and transcription change genomes?
- 7. Modeling regulatory motifs
- 8. How does influenza virus jump from animals to humans?
- 9. Genome rearrangements
- 10. Comparison of phylogenetic trees and search for a central trend in the "Forest of Life"
- 11. Reconstructing the history of large-scale genomic changes: biological questions and computational challenges
- 12. Figs, wasps, gophers, and lice: a computational exploration of coevolution
- 13. Big cat phylogenies, consensus trees, and computational thinking
- 14. Phylogenetic estimation: optimization problems, heuristics, and performance analysis 15. Biological networks uncover evolution, disease, and gene functions
- 16. Regulatory network inference