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082 _a 572.8015118 CLO-C
100 _a Peter Clote
245 _aComputational Molecular Biology
260 _a New York
_b John Wiley & Sons
_c2000
300 _a ix, 286 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
490 _a Wiley series in mathematical and computational biology.
505 _a 1. Molecular Biology. 1.1. Some Organic Chemistry. 1.2. Small Molecules. 1.3. Sugars. 1.4. Nucleic Acids. 1.5. Proteins. 1.6. From DNA to Proteins. 1.7. Exercises -- 2. Math Primer. 2.1. Probability. 2.2. Combinatorial Optimization. 2.3. Entropy and Applications to Molecular Biology. 2.4. Exercises. 2.5. Appendix: Modification of Bezout's Lemma -- 3. Sequence Alignment. 3.1. Motivating Example. 3.2. Scoring Matrices. 3.3. Global Pairwise Sequence Alignment. 3.4. Multiple Sequence Alignment. 3.5. Genomic Rearrangements. 3.6. Locating Cryptogenes and Guide RNA. 3.7. Expected Length of gRNA in Trypanosomes. 3.8. Exercises. 3.9. Appendix: Maximum-Likelihood Estimation for Pair Probabilities -- 4. All About Eve. 4.1. Introduction. 4.2. Rate of Evolutionary Change. 4.3. Clustering Methods. 4.4. Maximum Likelihood. 4.5. Quartet Puzzling. 4.6. Exercises -- 5. Hidden Markov Models. 5.1. Likelihood and Scoring a Model. 5.2. Re-estimation of Parameters. 5.3. Applications. 5.4. Exercises -- 6. Structure Prediction.
520 _a "Primarily aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students from bioinformatics, computer science, statistics, mathematics and the biological sciences, this text will also interest researchers from these fields."--Jacket.
650 _a Bioinformatics. Genetics -- Mathematical models. Molecular biology -- Mathematical models.
700 _aRolf Backofen
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