Pattern Discovery in Biomolecular Data
Subtitle: Tools, Techniques, and Applications
Contributors: Jason T. L. Wang (Editor); Bruce A. Shapiro (Editor); Dennis Elliott Shasha (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: November 15, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780195119404
First sentence: The parsimony method for reconstruction of evolutionary trees (Sober, 1988) and the minimal edit distance method for DNA sequence alignments (e.g., Waterman, 1984) are both based on the principle of Occam's Razor (e.g., Losee, 1980; also known as the Parsimony principle).