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.

"In the current era of complete genome sequencing, Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution provides an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to bioinformatics in the context of evolutionary biology. This textbook will equip readers with a thorough understanding of the quantitative methods used in the analysis of molecular evolution, and will be essential reading for advanced undergraduates, graduates, and researchers in molecular biology, genetics, genomics, computational biology, and bioinformatics courses."--Jacket. Read less