Sequence Comparison Theory and Methods /

• Main Authors: Chao, Kun-Mao (Author), Zhang, Louxin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Series: Computational Biology, 7
• Subjects: Computer science.; Algorithms.; Computer graphics.; Bioinformatics.; Biochemistry.; Sequences (Mathematics).; Computer Science.; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics.; Biochemistry, general.; Sequences, Series, Summability.; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics.; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity.

Biomolecular sequence comparison is the origin of bioinformatics. Today, powerful sequence comparison methods, together with comprehensive biological databases, have changed the practice of molecular biology and genomics. This in-depth, state-of-the-art study of sequence alignment and homology searc...

Table of Contents:

• Algorithms and Techniques
• Basic Algorithmic Techniques
• Pairwise Sequence Alignment
• Homology Search Tools
• Multiple Sequence Alignment
• Theory
• Anatomy of Spaced Seeds
• Local Alignment Statistics
• Scoring Matrices.