Introduction to computational biology : maps, sequences and genomes /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Waterman, Michael S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Chapman & Hall, 1995.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Molecular biology
  • Mathematics, statistics, and computer science
  • Some molecular biology
  • DNA and proteins
  • The central dogma
  • The genetic code
  • Transfer RNA and protein sequences
  • Genes are not simple
  • Biological chemistry
  • Restriction maps
  • Graphs
  • Interval graphs
  • Measuring fragment sizes
  • Multiple maps
  • Double digest problem
  • Classifying multiple solutions
  • Algorithms for DDP
  • Algorithms and complexity
  • DDP is NP-complete
  • Approaches to DDP.
  • Simulated annealing : TSP and DDP
  • Mapping with real data
  • Cloning and clone libraries
  • A finite number of random clones
  • Libraries by complete digestion
  • Libraries by partial digestion
  • Genomes per microgram
  • Physical genome maps : oceans, islands and anchors
  • Mapping by fingerprinting
  • Mapping by anchoring
  • An overview of clone overlap
  • Putting it together
  • Sequence assembly
  • Shotgun sequencing
  • Sequencing by hybridization
  • Shotgun sequencing revisited
  • Databases and rapid sequence analysis.
  • DNA and protein sequence databases
  • A tree representation of a sequence
  • Hashing a sequence
  • Repeats in a sequence
  • Sequence comparison by hashing
  • Sequence comparison with at most l mismatches
  • Sequence comparison by statistical content
  • Dynamic programming alignment of two sequences
  • The number of alignments
  • Shortest and longest paths in a network
  • Global distance alignment
  • Global similarity alignment
  • Fitting one sequence into another
  • Local alignment and clumps
  • Linear space algorithms.
  • Tracebacks
  • Inversions
  • Map alignment
  • Parametric sequence comparisons
  • Multiple sequence alignment
  • The cystic fibrosis gene
  • Dynamic programming in r-dimensions
  • Weighted-average sequences
  • Profile analysis
  • Alignment by hidden markov models
  • Consensus word analysis
  • Probability and statistics for sequence alignment
  • Global alignment
  • Local alignment
  • Extreme value distributions
  • The chein-stein method
  • Poisson approximation and long matches
  • Sequence alignment with scores.
  • Probability and statistics for sequence patterns
  • A central limit theorem
  • Nonoverlapping pattern counts
  • Poisson approximation
  • Site distributions
  • RNA secondary structure
  • Combinatorics
  • Minimum free-energy structures
  • Consensus folding
  • Trees and sequences
  • Trees
  • Distance
  • Parsimony
  • Maximum likelihood trees
  • Sources and perspectives
  • Molecular biology
  • Physical maps and clone libraries
  • Sequence assembly
  • Sequence comparisons
  • Probability and statistics
  • RNA secondary structure.
  • Trees and sequences
  • Problem solutions and hints
  • Mathematical notation.