The Mathematics of Phylogenomics

dc.creatorPachter, Lior
dc.creatorSturmfels, Bernd
dc.date2004-09-08
dc.date2005-09-27
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T08:06:27Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T08:06:27Z
dc.descriptionThe grand challenges in biology today are being shaped by powerful high-throughput technologies that have revealed the genomes of many organisms, global expression patterns of genes and detailed information about variation within populations. We are therefore able to ask, for the first time, fundamental questions about the evolution of genomes, the structure of genes and their regulation, and the connections between genotypes and phenotypes of individuals. The answers to these questions are all predicated on progress in a variety of computational, statistical, and mathematical fields. The rapid growth in the characterization of genomes has led to the advancement of a new discipline called Phylogenomics. This discipline results from the combination of two major fields in the life sciences: Genomics, i.e., the study of the function and structure of genes and genomes; and Molecular Phylogenetics, i.e., the study of the hierarchical evolutionary relationships among organisms and their genomes. The objective of this article is to offer mathematicians a first introduction to this emerging field, and to discuss specific mathematical problems and developments arising from phylogenomics.
dc.description41 pages, 4 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409132
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409132
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/130612
dc.subjectStatistics Theory
dc.subjectQuantitative Methods
dc.subject92D20 (Primary) 62-02 (Secondary)
dc.titleThe Mathematics of Phylogenomics
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