Product Description: These proceedings present cutting-edge topics in genome science and collect the contributions for 32 eminent experts in this field. In the past years, genomes of many species, from bacteria to human, have been sequenced. A paradigm shift will be experienced in research, as genome science replaces molecular biology as the most powerful way to study the structure and dynamics of life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Asserting that there are many more organic codes in nature than just the genetic code, Marcello Barbieri states that the existence of these codes and their corresponding organic memories can be used to explain the key steps in the evolutionary history of life. With major events corresponding to the appearance of new codes, the organic codes and their corresponding organic memories can also shed new light on the problems of epigenesis and how embryos generate their own complexity. (view table of contents)

Product Description: to Bioinformatics A Theoretical and Practical Approach Edited by Stephen A. Krawetz, PhD Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit MI and David D. Womble, PhD Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI ~ Springer Science+ ~ Business Media, LLC © 2003 Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Humana Press !ne...read more

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Product Description: Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics: Volume 3, 2002459 pp. 9 1/8 x 6 1/4. CONTENTS: A Personal History of the Mouse Genome - Mary F. Lyon; The Application of Tandem Mass Spectrometry to Neonatal Screening for Inherited Disorders of Intermediary Metabolism - Donald H...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Throughout history, we have selected and manipulated the genomes of plants, animals, and even ourselves. Until now, however, such control could be exerted only at the level of the entire organism. Scientific and technological advances now allow us to manipulate genomes directly at the level of single genes and their constituents, with a speed and precision that far exceed what natural evolution has been able to achieve over the past 3...read more

A story of the race to crack the secrets of the human genome captures all the drama of the players involved, the project's leaders, Francis Collins and Craig Venter, and the secrets behind the most important scientific achievement of our time. (view table of contents)

The amount of information that can be obtained by using molecular techniques in evolution, systematics and ecology has increased exponentially over the last ten years. The need for more rapid and efficient methods of data acquisition and analysis is growing accordingly. This manual presents some of the most important techniques for data acquisition developed over the last years. The choice and justification of data analysis techniques is also an important and critical aspect of modern phylogenetic and evolutionary analysis and so a considerable part of this volume addresses this important subject. The book is mainly written for students and researchers from evolutionary biology in search for methods to acquire data, but also from molecular biology who might be looking for information on how data are analyzed in an evolutionary context. To aid the user, information on web-located sites is included wherever possible. Approaches that will push the amount of information which systematics will gather in the (view table of contents)

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Presenting a series of authoritative essays on the subject, this fascinating study of the human genome describes the human genome project and its implications for the study of human evolution; its use in preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic medicine; its scientific and technological possibilities; and the possible ethical issues involved. Original.

Examines the diverse ways in which human heredity is linked to the rest of the natural world and analyzes how the science of genetics affects everyday life.

Product Description: Aimed at scientists and non-specialised readers alike, this book retraces the source of national and international biotechnology programmes by examining the origins of biotechnology and its political and economic interpretation by large nations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Until twenty years ago we had no idea which of our genes came from our father and which came from our mother. We took it for granted that our genes expressed themselves identically and that there was a 50/50 chance that they came from either parent...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Captivating... hard to put down."­­Choice "A bracing insider's account of why gene structure matters to science and commerce."­­American Scientist How genomics is bringing biology into the Digital Age In this important book, a scientist gives us an inside account of the historic paradigm shift under way in the life sciences as a result of the Human Genome Project and provides a philosophical framework in which to understand biology and medicine as information sciences...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A concise yet informative book describing in detail the functions and applications of all the genome databases and related bioscience databases available on the internet. This book is an invaluable resource packed with practical information on the use, purpose and future potential of all the major bioscience internet resources...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Filled with stunning full-color illustrations, the editors of Nature present an authoritative guide to human genome sequencing, history's most significant discovery, that covers a vast array of information including genetics, basic biology, the key players, the project's landmark events, and its political, social, and scientific impact, and includes the full text of Nature's paper that divulged the human genome. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book is about mobile genes-the transfer of DNA between unrelated cells. It discusses the machinery of gene transfer and its wide-ranging biological and health consequences. Mobile DNA makes possible the development of antibiotic resistance in microbes, the conversion of harmless to pathogenic bacteria, and the triggering of cancerous growth in cells...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume bridges the gap between standard genetics textbooks and highly specialised, technical, and advanced treatments of the subdisciplines. It provides an affordable and up-to-date introduction to the field that is suited to advanced undergraduate or early graduate courses...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The massive research effort known as the Human Genome Project is an attempt to record the sequence of the three trillion nucleotides that make up the human genome and to identify individual genes within this sequence. The description and classification of sequences is heavily dependent on mathematical and statistical models. This short textbook presents a brief description of several ways in which mathematics and statistics are being used in genome analysis and sequencing. (view table of contents)

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