Mathematics of Genome Analysis

Download or read book Mathematics of Genome Analysis written by Jerome K. Percus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. While the basic effort is of course a biological one, the description and classification of sequences also lend themselves naturally to mathematical and statistical modeling. This short textbook on the mathematics of genome analysis presents a brief description of several ways in which mathematics and statistics are being used in genome analysis and sequencing. It will be of interest not only to students but also to professional mathematicians curious about the subject.