Evolutionary Bioinformatics

Books on bioinformatics which began appearing in the mid 80s primarily served gene-hunters, and biologists who wished to construct family trees showing tidy lines of descent. Given the great pharmaceutical industry interest in genes, this trend has continued in most subsequent texts. These deal extensively with the exciting topic of gene discovery and searching databases, but hardly consider genomes as information channels through which multiple forms and levels of information, including genic information, have passed through the generations.

List of contents

Prologue.- Part 1: Information and DNA.- Memory - A Phenomenon of Arrangement.- Chargaff's First Parity Rule.- Information Levels and Barriers.- Part 2: Parity and Non-parity.- Chargaff's Second Parity Rule.- Stems and Loops.- Chargaff's Cluster Rule.- Part 3: Variation and Speciation.- Mutation.- Species Survival and Arrival.- The Weak Point.- Chargaff's GC Rule.- Homostability.- Part 4: Conflict within Genomes.- Conflict Resolution.- Exons and Introns.- Complexity.- Part 5: Conflict between Genomes.- Self/Not-self?.- The Crowded Cytosol.- Part 6: Sex and Error-correction.- Rebooting the Genome.- The Fifth Letter.- Part 7.- Information and Mind.- Memory - What to Arrange and Where?.- Appendix 1.- Appendix 2.- Appendix 3.- Index.

Summary

Books on bioinformatics which began appearing in the mid 80s primarily served gene-hunters, and biologists who wished to construct family trees showing tidy lines of descent. Given the great pharmaceutical industry interest in genes, this trend has continued in most subsequent texts. These deal extensively with the exciting topic of gene discovery and searching databases, but hardly consider genomes as information channels through which multiple forms and levels of information, including genic information, have passed through the generations.

Product details

• Authors: Donald R Forsdyke, Donald R. Forsdyke
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9781489981714
• ISBN: 978-1-4899-8171-4
• No. of pages: 509
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 28 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 807 g
• Illustrations: XXII, 509 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Miscellaneous; B, Epidemiology & medical statistics, Evolution, Statistics, Life Sciences, biochemistry, bioinformatics, Zoology & animal sciences, Proteomics, Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Human Genetics, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Medical Genetics, Probability & statistics, Statistics in Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences, Information technology: general issues, Genetics (non-medical), Animal genetics, Agricultural Genetics, Animal Genetics and Genomics, Parity Rule;Stems;Mutation;Memory;Genome