Sequences / Part I: |
Modern BLAST Programs / Jian Ma ; Louxin Zhang |
Introduction / 1: |
Available Implementations / 2: |
Algorithm Description / 3: |
BLAST Statistics / 4: |
Examples / 5: |
Advanced Topics / 6: |
Exercises / 7: |
Further Reading / 8: |
References |
Practical Multiple Sequence Alignment / Tobias Rausch ; Knut Reinert |
History of the Problem |
Sequence Alignment Statistics / John L. Spouge |
Dynamic Programming with Independent Random Inputs |
The Extreme-Value Distributions for Maxima |
The Poisson Approximation for Counting Rare Events |
Pairwise Sequence Alignment |
Islands in Local Alignment |
The Finite-Size Correction in Gapped Local Alignment |
The Independent Diagonals Approximation |
The Combinatorial Approximation / 9: |
Phylogenetics / Part II: |
Practical Implications of Coalescent Theory / Paul Marjoram ; Paul Joyce |
Introduction - What is the coalescent? |
Motivating Problems |
Implications of the Coalescent |
Software Review |
Exercises for the reader |
Graph Model of Coalescence with Recombinations / Laxmi Parida |
Random Graph Framework: Pedigree Graph |
Pedigree Subgraphs |
Unilinear Transmission: Monochromatic Subgraphs |
Genetic Exchange Model: Mixed Subgraph |
Topological definition of GMRCA: Least Common Ancestor with Ancestry (LCAA) |
Discussion |
Phylogenetic Trees From Sequences / Paul Ryvkin ; Li-San Wang |
Basics |
Sequence evolution |
Distance-based phylogeny reconstruction |
Maximum parsimony |
Maximum likelihood |
Multiple phylogenies: comparison, consensus, and confidence |
Software |
Further reading |
Exercise |
Evolutionary Phylogenetic Networks: Models and Issues / Luay Nakhleh |
Phylogenetic Networks and the Trees Within |
Optimization Criteria for Inferring and Evaluating Phylogenetic Networks |
To Network, or Not to Network, That Is the Question |
Genome Wide Association Studies / Paola Sebastiani ; Nadia Solovieff |
An overview of population genetics |
Genome-Wide Association Studies |
Resources |
Proteins: Structure, Function, and Biochemistry / Part III: |
Novel Perspectives on Protein Structure Prediction / Bonnie Berger ; Jérôme Waldispühl |
Modeling transmembrane β-barrel structure |
Energy model |
Algorithms |
Applications |
Sampling the local neighborhood of 3D structures |
Stochastic Simulation for Biochemical Systems / Yang Cao |
Networks / Part IV: |
Cellular Response Networks / Christopher D. Lasher ; Christopher L. Poirel ; T. M. Murali |
Algorithm Descriptions |
Advanced Topics: Comparing Response Networks |
Outlook and Further Reading |
Identification of Modules in Protein-Protein Interaction Networks / Sinan Erten ; Mehmet Koyutürk |
Biological Data Management and Mining / Part V: |
Designing Microarray Experiments / Jacqui Milton ; Ling Wang |
Designed experiments versus observational studies |
Discovery of Differentially Expressed Genes |
Building prognostic models |
Running the experiment |
Advanced topics and further reading |
Matrix and Tensor Decompositions / Karthik Devarajan |
Non-negative Matrix Factorization |
Singular Value Decomposition |
Other Matrix Decompositions |
Comparison of the Methods |
Tensor Decompositions |
Concluding Remarks |
Practical Applications of the Gene Ontology Resource / Rachael P. Huntley ; Emily C. Dimmer ; Rolf Apweiler |
GO Annotations |
Viewing the GO and its annotations |
Use of GO in the literature |
Popular methods for supplementing and grouping GO annotations |
The effective use of GO for large-scale analyses |
Index |
Sequences / Part I: |
Modern BLAST Programs / Jian Ma ; Louxin Zhang |
Introduction / 1: |
Available Implementations / 2: |
Algorithm Description / 3: |
BLAST Statistics / 4: |