Evolutionary Bioinformatics
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 tradi
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Evolutionary Bioinformatics Third Edition
Evolutionary Bioinformatics
Donald R. Forsdyke
Evolutionary Bioinformatics Third Edition
Donald R. Forsdyke Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences Queen’s University Kingston, ON, Canada
ISBN 978-3-319-28753-9 ISBN 978-3-319-28755-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-28755-3
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In memory of Erwin Chargaff whose studies of the base composition ‘accent’ of DNA underlie everything in this book, and of Susumo Ohno who first understood that DNA ‘speaks’ in palindromic verses; with many thanks to Vinay Prabhu whose neat little 1993 paper showed the way.
Erwin Chargaff (1905-2002)
Contents
Note on the Third Edition .............................................................................. xvii Note on the Second Edition ............................................................................ xix Abbreviations .................................................................................................. xxi Prologue: To Select is Not To Preserve .......................................................... xxiii Part I
Information and DNA
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Memory: A Phenomenon of Arrangement ............................................ Priorities .................................................................................................... Textual and Hereditary Information.......................................................... Mental Information ................................................................................... Periodical Rhythms ................................................................................... Food ...............................................
Data Loading...
