Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution

Name: Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution
Price: 6.77 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781405106832

ISBN-10: 1405106832

ISBN-13: 9781405106832

Edition: 2005

Authors: Paul G. Higgs, Teresa K. Attwood

List price: $142.95

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $112.89

Marketplace

3 new & used from $6.77

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

An introduction to biological sequence analysis, this highly accessible textbook explores the algorithms used to create sequence alignments. Important mathematical derivations and statistical tests are explained at a level that should be suitable for biology students with perseverance.

Book details

List price: $142.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/11/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 7.36" wide x 9.25" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Paul Higgs is professor of the sociology of aging at University College London.



Preface


Chapter Plan



Introduction: 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


Mathematical Appendix


List of Web address


Glossary


Index