Computational Genome Analysis: An Introduction

Biology in a Nutshell.- Words.- Word Distributions and Occurrences.- Physical Mapping of DNA.- Genome Rearrangements.- Sequence Alignment.- Rapid Alignment Methods: FASTA and BLAST.- DNA Sequence Assembly.- Signals in DNA.- Similarity, Distance, and Clustering.- Measuring Expression of Genome Information.- Inferring the Past: Phylogenetic Trees.- Genetic Variation in Populations.- Comparative Genomics.