Overview
- Written to make the ‘new’ information-based (rather than gene-based) bioinformatics intelligible both to the ‘bio’ and the ‘info’ audience
- Fulfills the emerging need of non-science students for a mandatory interdisciplinary course
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Information and DNA
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Parity and Non-Parity
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Mutation and Speciation
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Conflict within Genomes
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Conflict between Genomes
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Sex and Error-Correction
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About this book
Books on bioinformatics which began appearing in the mid 80s primarily served gene-hunters, and biologists who wished to construct family trees showing tidy lines of descent. Given the great pharmaceutical industry interest in genes, this trend has continued in most subsequent texts. These deal extensively with the exciting topic of gene discovery and searching databases, but hardly consider genomes as information channels through which multiple forms and levels of information, including genic information, have passed through the generations. This book identifies the types of information that genomes transmit, shows how competition between different types is resolved in the genomes of different organisms, and identifies the evolutionary forces involved. The early chapters relate the form of information with which we are most familiar, namely written texts, to the DNA text that is our genome. This lends itself well to introducing historical aspects dating back to the nineteenth century.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evolutionary Bioinformatics
Authors: Donald R. Forsdyke
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-33419-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 424
Number of Illustrations: 86 b/w illustrations
Topics: Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology, Animal Genetics and Genomics, Proteomics, Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences, Human Genetics