An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms
This introductory text offers a clear exposition of the algorithmic principles driving advances in bioinformatics. Accessible to students in both biology and computer science, it strikes a uniqu...
This introductory text offers a clear exposition of the algorithmic principles driving advances in bioinformatics. Accessible to students in both biology and computer science, it strikes a uniqu...
The Biology of Cancer is a textbook for undergraduate and graduate biology students as well as medical students studying the molecular and cellular bases of cancer. The book presents the princip...
生物世界的基本规律是演化,演化的核心机制是自然选择,自然选择的基本单位是基因。 亿万年来,细菌在与病毒经久不息的鏖战中,演化出了一套适应性免疫系统:CRISPR。即,细菌会“记住”病毒的DNA序列,等后者再次入侵时予以反击,切断其DNA。 亿万年后,生物圈的后来者 ——人类——认识了基因,解开了DNA的双螺旋结构,学会了“阅读”基因。现在,有了CRISPR这把“上古神剑”,...
A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human history. Geneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of genomics,...
A groundbreaking, marvelously informative “microbe’s-eye view” of the world that reveals a radically reconceived picture of life on earth. For most of human existence, microbes were hidden, v...
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a magnificent history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future: What becomes of being ...