Models and Algorithms for Genome Evolution

<p>Part I: Emergence of Standard Algorithms</p><p>What's Behind Blast<br>Gene Myers</p><p>Forty Years of Model-Based Phylogeography<br>David Bryant and Jamie Kydd</p><p>How to Infer Ancestral Genome Features by Parsimony<br>Miklós Csűrös</p><p>Duplication, Rearrangement and Reconciliation<br>Cedric Chauve, Nadia El-Mabrouk, Laurent Guéguen, Magali Semeria and Eric Tannier</p><p>The Genesis of the DCJ Formula<br>Anne Bergeron and Jens Stoye</p><p>Part II: New Lights on Current Paradigms</p><p>Large-Scale Multiple Sequence Alignment and Phylogeny Estimation<br>Tandy Warnow</p><p>Rearrangements in Phylogenetic Inference<br>Bernard M.E. Moret, Yu Lin and Jijun Tang</p><p>Status of Research on Insertion and Deletion Variations in the Human Population<br>Liqing Zhang, Mingming Liu and Layne T. Watson</p><p>A Retrospective on Genomic Preprocessing for Comparative Genomics<br>Binhai Zhu</p><p>A Comparison of DCJ and Algebraic Distances<br>Joao Meidanis and Sophia Yancopoulos</p><p>Part III: Promising Directions</p><p>Fractionation, Rearrangement, Consolidation, Reconstruction<br>David Sankoff and Chunfang Zheng</p><p>Error Detection and Correction of Gene Trees<br>Manuel Lafond, Krister M. Swenson and Nadia El-Mabrouk</p><p>The Potential of Family-Free Genome Comparison<br>Marília D.V. Braga, Cedric Chauve, Daniel Doerr, Katharina Jahn, Jens Stoye, Annelyse Thévenin and Roland Wittler</p><p>Genetic History of PopulationsDaniel E. Platt, Filippo Utro, Marc Pybus and Laxmi Parida</p>