Biological sequence analysis : probabalistic models of proteins and nucleic acids / Richard Durbin, Sean R. Eddy, Anders Krogh, Graeme Mitchison.

Date:
1998
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Description

Probabilistic models are becoming increasingly important in analysing the huge amount of data being produced by large-scale DNA sequencing efforts such as the Human Genome Project. This book gives an up-to-date account with a Bayesian slant.

Publication/Creation

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Physical description

xi, 356 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

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Notes

18th printing, 2013.

Contents

Introduction -- Pairwise sequence alignment -- Multiple alignments -- Hidden Markov models -- Hidden Markov models applied to biological sequences -- The Chomsky hierarchy of formal grammars -- RNA and stochastic context-free grammars -- Phylogenetic trees -- Phylogeny and alignmen.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-344) and indexes.

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  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    QU58 1998D95b
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  • 0521620414
  • 9780521620413
  • 0521629713
  • 9780521629713