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Mathematics and the Genome: References

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8. References


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Carbone, A. and M. Gromov, Mathematical Slices of Molecular Biology, Société Mathématique de France, Supplement Number 88, Paris, 2000.

Cavalier-Smith, T., (ed.), The Evolution of Genome Size, Wiley, Chichester, 1985.

Clote, P. and R. Backofen, Computational Molecular Biology, Wiley, New York, 2000.

Crow, J. and W. Dove, (eds.), Perspectives on Genetics, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 2000.

Dunn, L., A Short History of Genetics, McGraw Hill, New York, 1965.

Farach-Colton, M. and F. Roberts, M. Vingron, M. Waterman, (eds.), DIMACS, Volume 47, American Mathematical Society, Providence, 1999.

Fincham, J., Genetics, Jones and Bartlett, Boston, 1983.

Findley, A. and S. McGlynn, G. Findley, The Geometry of Genetics, Wiley, New York, 1989.

Fraser, A., Heredity, Genes and Chromosomes, McGraw Hill, New York, 1966.

Gindikin, S. (ed.) Mathematical Methods of Analysis of Biopolymer Sequences, DIMACS, Volume, 8, American Mathematical Society, Providence, 1992.

Halloran, M. and S. Geisser, (eds.), Statistics in Genetics, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999.

Gusfield, Dan, Algorithms on Strings, Tress and Sequences. Computer Science and Computational Biology, Cambridge U. Press, New York, 1997.

Hartl, D., A Primer of Population Genetics, (2nd edition), Sinauer, Sunderland, 1988.

Hartl, D. and A. Clark, Principles of Population Genetics, (3rd edition), Sinauer, Sunderland, 1997.

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Liu, B., Statistical Genomics, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1998.

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Morange, M., A History of Molecular Biology, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1998.

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  1. Introduction
  2. Mathematics and Classical Genetics (The Early Days)
  3. Mathematics and Clasical Genetics (1900-1953)
  4. Molecular Genetics (1953-Present)
  5. Near and Far (Strings)
  6. Near and Far (Trees)
  7. The Wider Picture and the Future
  8. References