Bioinformatics for Evolutionary Biologists
Subtitle: A Problems Approach
Publisher: Springer
Published: Jan 31, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9783319673943
Description: "This self-contained textbook covers fundamental aspects of sequence analysis in evolutionary biology, including sequence alignment, phylogeny reconstruction, and coalescent simulation. It addresses these aspects through a series of over 400 computer problems, ranging from elementary to research level to enable learning by doing. Students solve the problems in the same computational environment used for decades in science -- the UNIX command line. This is available on all three major operating systems for PCs: Microsoft Windows, Mac-OSX, and Linux. To learn using this powerful system, students analyze sample sequence data by applying generic tools, bioinformatics software, and over 40 programs specifically written for this course. The solutions for all problems are included, making the book ideal for self-study. Problems are grouped into sections headed by an introduction and a list of new concepts and programs. By using practical computing to explore evolutionary concepts and sequence data, the book enables readers to tackle their own computational problems" -- Back cover.
Notes: Source title: Bioinformatics for Evolutionary Biologists: A Problems Approach