Models and Algorithms for Genome Evolution

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Chauve, Cedric. (Editor), El-Mabrouk, Nadia. (Editor), Tannier, Eric. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Computational Biology, 19
• Subjects: Computer science.; Bioinformatics.; Computer Science.; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.; Mathematics of Computing.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5298-9

This authoritative text/reference presents a review of the history, current status, and potential future directions of computational biology in molecular evolution. Gathering together the unique insights of an international selection of prestigious researchers, this must-read volume examines the lat...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Emergence of Standard Algorithms
• What's Behind Blast
• Forty Years of Model-Based Phylogeography
• How to Infer Ancestral Genome Features by Parsimony
• Duplication, Rearrangement and Reconciliation
• The Genesis of the DCJ Formula
• Part II: New Lights on Current Paradigms
• Large-Scale Multiple Sequence Alignment and Phylogeny Estimation
• Rearrangements in Phylogenetic Inference
• Status of Research on Insertion and Deletion Variations in the Human Population
• A Retrospective on Genomic Preprocessing for Comparative Genomics
• A Comparison of DCJ and Algebraic Distances
• Part III: Promising Directions
• Fractionation, Rearrangement, Consolidation, Reconstruction
• Error Detection and Correction of Gene Trees
• The Potential of Family-Free Genome Comparison
• Genetic History of Populations.