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This book is meant to serve as an introduction to the new and very exciting field of comparative gene finding. We introduce the field in its current state, and go through the process of constructing a comparative gene finder by breaking it down into its separate building blocks. But before we can dive into the algorithmic details of such a process, we begin by giving a brief introduction to the underlying biological theory. In this chapter we introduce the basic concepts of genetics needed for this book, and define the gene finding problem we have set out to solve. We round off by giving a brief account of the historical developments of approaching the gene finding problem up to where it stands today. In the last section we split the process of building a gene finder into its smaller parts, and the rest of the book is structured in the same manner.

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