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Reconstructing Evolution - New Mathematical and Computational Advances (Hardcover)
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Reconstructing Evolution - New Mathematical and Computational Advances (Hardcover)
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Evolution is a complex process, acting at multiple scales, from DNA
sequences and proteins to populations of species. Understanding and
reconstructing evolution is of major importance in numerous
subfields of biology. For example, phylogenetics and sequence
evolution is central to comparative genomics, attempts to decipher
genomes, and molecular epidemiology. Phylogenetics is also the
focal point of large-scale international biodiversity assessment
initiatives such as the 'Tree of Life' project, which aims to build
the evolutionary tree for all extant species.
Since the pioneering work in phylogenetics in the 1960s, models
have become increasingly sophisticated to account for the inherent
complexity of evolution. They rely heavily on mathematics and aim
at modelling and analyzing biological phenomena such as horizontal
gene transfer, heterogeneity of mutation, and speciation and
extinction processes. This book presents these recent models, their
biological relevance, their mathematical basis, their properties,
and the algorithms to infer them from data. A number of subfields
from mathematics and computer science are involved: combinatorics,
graph theory, stringology, probabilistic and Markov models,
information theory, statistical inference, Monte Carlo methods,
continuous and discrete algorithmics.
This book arises from the Mathematics of Evolution &
Phylogenetics meeting at the Mathematical Institute Henri Poincare,
Paris, in June 2005 and is based on the outstanding
state-of-the-art reports presented by the conference speakers. Ten
chapters - based around five themes - provide a detailed overview
of key topics, from the underlying concepts to the latest results,
some ofwhich are at the forefront of current research.
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