Evolutionary Bioinformatics
2nd Edition
Published on 24. November 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
XXII, 509 pages
978-1-4899-8171-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
2nd ed. 2011
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Graduate
Illustrations
XXII, 509 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
797 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4899-8171-4 (9781489981714)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4419-7771-7
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Donald R. Forsdyke
Evolutionary Bioinformatics
Book
02/2011
2nd Edition
Springer
€266.43
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Donald R. Forsdyke
Evolutionary Bioinformatics
E-Book
11/2010
2nd Edition
Springer
€212.93
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Person
Donald Forsdyke graduated from St. Mary's Hospital, London University, UK in 1961. After house appointments at St.Mary's (Medical Unit and Department of Psychiatry) and the Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge (Surgery), he began research in Molecular Biology and Cellular Immunology at the Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge (Ph.D. 1967). He was appointed to what was then the Department of Biochemistry at Queen's University in 1968. In 2013 he became President of the John Austin Society for the History of Medicine and Science.
Content
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.