Overview
- This title is unique in emphasising non-genic aspects of bioinformatics, and linking modern evolutionary biology to a history that extends back to the nineteenth century
- Identifies the types of information that genomes transmit and shows how competition between different types is resolved in the genomes of different organisms
- Illustrates how forms of information that we are familiar with are related to forms we are less familiar with
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Information and DNA
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Parity and Non-parity
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Variation and Speciation
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Conflict Within Genomes
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Conflict Between Genomes
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About this book
Now in its third edition and
supplemented with more online material, this book aims to make the
"new" information-based (rather than gene-based) bioinformatics
intelligible
both to the "bio" people and the "info" people. Books on bioinformatics
have traditionally served gene-hunters, and biologists who wish to
construct family trees showing tidy lines of descent. While dealing
extensively with the exciting topics of gene discovery
and database-searching, such books have hardly considered genomes as
information channels through which multiple forms and levels of
information have passed through the generations. This “new
bioinformatics” contrasts with the "old" gene-based bioinformatics
that so preoccupies previous texts. Forms of information that we are
familiar with (mental, textual) are related to forms with which we are
less familiar (hereditary). The book extends a line of evolutionary
thought that leads from the nineteenth century (Darwin,
Butler, Romanes, Bateson), through the twentieth (Goldschmidt, White),
and into the twenty first (the final works of the late Stephen Jay
Gould). Long an area of controversy, diverging views may now be
reconciled.
Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evolutionary Bioinformatics
Authors: Donald R. Forsdyke
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28755-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-28753-9Published: 10 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80416-3Published: 27 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28755-3Published: 27 April 2016
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: XXXIV, 471
Number of Illustrations: 92 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Evolutionary Biology, Systems Biology, Proteomics, Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences, Human Genetics