Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology / Edition 1

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Overview

The quantitative analysis of biological sequence data is based on methods from statistics coupled with efficient algorithms from computer science. Algebra provides a framework for unifying many of the seemingly disparate techniques used by computational biologists. This book offers an introduction to this mathematical framework and describes tools from computational algebra for designing new algorithms for exact, accurate results. These algorithms can be applied to biological problems such as aligning genomes, finding genes and constructing phylogenies. As the first book in the exciting and dynamic area, it will be welcomed as a text for self-study or for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses.
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"This substantial, enthusiastically presented, and confidently written book is largely based on and around a graduate course taught by the two editors, who are in the mathematics department at the University of California, Berkeley, during the fall of 2004. The four introductory chapters were written by the editors, whilst the seventeen chapters in Part II were written up as a result of research projects undertaken by course participants."
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780521857000
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date: 8/28/2005
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 432
  • Product dimensions: 6.97 (w) x 9.96 (h) x 0.94 (d)

Meet the Author

Lior Pachter is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999. He then moved to the mathematics department at UC Berkeley where he was a postdoctoral researcher for two years, before being hired as an assistant professor. He has been awarded an NSF Career award, and has received the Sloan Fellowship for his work on molecular biology and evolution. Equally at home amongst both mathematicians and biologists, he has published over 40 research articles in areas ranging from combinatorics to gene finding, and has participated in several large genome projects.

Bernd Sturmfels is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His honors include a National Young Investigator Fellowship, a Sloan Fellowship, and a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship. Sturmfels served as von Neumann Professor at TU Munich in Summer 2002, as the Hewlett-Packard Research Professor at MSRI Berkeley in 2003/04, and he was a Clay Senior Scholar in 2004.

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Table of Contents

Preface; Part I. Introduction to the Four Themes: 1. Statistics L. Pachter and B. Sturmfels; 2. Computation L. Pachter and B. Sturmfels; 3. Algebra L. Pachter and B. Sturmfels; 4. Biology L. Pachter and B. Sturmfels; Part II. Studies on the Four Themes: 5. Parametric inference R. Mihaescu; 6. Polytope propagation on graphs M. Joswig; 7. Parametric sequence alignment C. Dewey and K. Woods; 8. Bounds for optimal sequence alignment S. Elizalde; 9. Inference functions S. Elizalde; 10. Geometry of Markov chains E. Kuo; 11. Equations defining hidden Markov models N. Bray and J. Morton; 12. The EM algorithm for hidden Markov models I. B. Hallgrímsdóttir, A. Milowski and J. Yu; 13. Homology mapping with Markov random fields A. Caspi; 14. Mutagenetic tree models N. Beerenwinkel and M. Drton; 15. Catalog of small trees M. Casanellas, L. Garcia and S. Sullivant; 16. The strand symmetric model M. Casanellas and S. Sullivant; 17. Extending statistical models from trees to splits graphs D. Bryant; 18. Small trees and generalized neighbor-joining M. Contois and D. Levy; 19. Tree construction using Singular Value Decomposition N. Eriksson; 20. Applications of interval methods to phylogenetics R. Sainudiin and R. Yoshida; 21. Analysis of point mutations in vertebrate genomes J. Al-Aidroos and S. Snir; 22. Ultra-conserved elements in vertebrate genomes M. Drton, N. Eriksson and G. Leung; Index.
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