文档介绍：Alexander Isaev
Introduction
to Mathematical
Methods in
Bioinformatics
With 76 Figures and 3 Tables
Alexander Isaev
Australian National University
Department of Mathematics
Canberra, ACT 0200
Australia
e-mail: alexander.******@
Corrected Second Printing 2006
Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 91-01 (Primary)
91D20 (Secondary)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006930998
ISBN: 3-540-21973-0
ISBN: 9783540219736
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To Esya and Masha
Preface
Broadly speaking, Bioinformatics can be defined as a collection of mathemati-
cal, statistical putational methods for analyzing biological sequences,
that is, DNA, RNA and amino acid (protein) sequences. Numerous projects for
sequencing the DNA of anisms constantly supply new amounts
of data on an astronomical scale, and it would not be realistic to expect that
biologis