Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics Schedule Participants Registration Schedule and list of participants are not yet available. Now that there are several complete genomes available we can compare their common features and their differences. For example, structural and functional information often can be extracted by comparison of genomes, and this observation provides the motivation for several gene-finding algorithms. A number of interesting problems arise in the study of gene rearrangements among genomes.
Evolutionary genomics is the study of the origins of the functions of genomes.
It uses the tools of molecular evolution, phylogenetics, and population genetics to understand how the structure and functions of genomes have changed over time. A number of problems in phylogenetics arise from genome wide comparisons, among them methods for studying recombination and cross-species transfer. The natural audience includes probability, statistics and biology researchers interested in evolutionary biology, population genetics, and human genetics.