Sequence Alignment: Methods, Models, Concepts, and Strategies

ISBN 10: 0520256972 / ISBN 13: 9780520256972

Published by University of California Press, 2009

About this Item

A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. There are no stickers on book or rips in dust cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sequence Alignment: Methods, Models, Concepts, and Strategies
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520256972
• ISBN 13: 9780520256972
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

The sequencing of the human genome involved thousands of scientists but used relatively few tools. Today, obtaining sequences is simpler, but aligning the sequences—making sure that sequences from one source are properly compared to those from other sources—remains a complicated but underappreciated aspect of comparative molecular biology. This volume, the first to focus on this crucial step in analyzing sequence data, is about the practice of alignment, the procedures by which alignments are established, and more importantly, how the outcomes of any alignment algorithm should be interpreted. Edited by Michael S. Rosenberg with essays by many of the field's leading experts, Sequence Alignment covers molecular causes, computational advances, approaches for assessing alignment quality, and philosophical underpinnings of the algorithms themselves.

About the Author

Michael S. Rosenberg is Associate Professor of Computational Evolutionary Biology and Bioinformatics in the School of Life Sciences and the Center for Evolutionary Functional Genomics of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University.