Table of contents : cover......Page 1 Historical Introduction and Overview......Page 2 THE FIRST SEQUENCES TO BE COLLECTED WERE THOSE OF PROTEINS......Page 3 DNA SEQUENCE DATABASES......Page 4 SEQUENCE RETRIEVAL FROM PUBLIC DATABASES......Page 5 THE DOT MATRIX OR DIAGRAM METHOD FOR COMPARING SEQUENCES......Page 6 ALIGNMENT OF SEQUENCES BY DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING......Page 7 FINDING LOCAL ALIGNMENTS BETWEEN SEQUENCES......Page 9 PREDICTION OF RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE......Page 10 DISCOVERY OF EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS USING SEQUENCES......Page 11 THE FASTA AND BLAST METHODS FOR DATABASE SEARCHES......Page 12 PREDICTING THE SEQUENCE OF A PROTEIN BY TRANSLATION OF DNA SEQUENCES......Page 13 PREDICTING PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE......Page 14 THE FIRST COMPLETE GENOME SEQUENCE......Page 15 REFERENCES......Page 16 Collecting and Storing Sequences in\r\nthe Laboratory......Page 20 DNA sequencing,......Page 21 SEQUENCING cDNA LIBRARIES OF EXPRESSED GENES......Page 26 SEQUENCE ACCURACY......Page 27 SEQUENCE FORMATS......Page 30 CONVERSIONS OF ONE SEQUENCE FORMAT TO ANOTHER......Page 37 MULTIPLE SEQUENCE FORMATS......Page 41 STORAGE OF INFORMATION IN A SEQUENCE DATABASE......Page 45 USING THE DATABASE ACCESS PROGRAM ENTREZ......Page 46 REFERENCES......Page 49 Alignment of Pairs of Sequences......Page 52 DEFINITION OF SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT......Page 54 Significance of sequence alignment,......Page 55 Overview of methods of sequence alignment,......Page 57 METHODS,......Page 59 REFERENCES,......Page 135 Multiple Sequence Alignment......Page 140 INTRODUCTION......Page 141 USES OF MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS......Page 143 RELATIONSHIP OF MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT TO PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS......Page 144 METHODS......Page 145 MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT AS AN EXTENSION OF SEQUENCE PAIR\r\nALIGNMENT BY DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING......Page 146 SCORING MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS......Page 152 PROGRESSIVE METHODS OF MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT......Page 153 OTHER PROGRAMS AND METHODS FOR MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT......Page 161 LOCALIZED ALIGNMENTS IN SEQUENCES......Page 162 STATISTICAL METHODS FOR AIDING ALIGNMENT......Page 174 POSITION-SPECIFIC SCORING MATRICES......Page 193 MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT EDITORS AND FORMATTERS......Page 199 REFERENCES......Page 201 Prediction of RNA\r\nSecondary Structure......Page 206 INTRODUCTION......Page 207 FEATURES OF RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE......Page 209 LIMITATIONS OF PREDICTION......Page 211 DEVELOPMENT OF RNA PREDICTION METHODS......Page 212 SELF-COMPLEMENTARY REGIONS IN RNA SEQUENCES PREDICT SECONDARY\r\nSTRUCTURE......Page 213 MINIMUM FREE-ENERGY METHOD FOR RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE\r\nPREDICTION......Page 215 SUBOPTIMAL STRUCTURE PREDICTIONS BY MFOLD AND THE USE\r\nOF ENERGY PLOTS......Page 216 OTHER ALGORITHMS FOR SUBOPTIMAL FOLDING OF RNA MOLECULES......Page 218 PREDICTION OF MOST PROBABLE RNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE......Page 220 USING SEQUENCE COVARIATION TO PREDICT STRUCTURE......Page 224 STOCHASTIC CONTEXT-FREE GRAMMARS FOR MODELING\r\nRNA SECONDARY STRUCTURE......Page 229 SEARCHING GENOMES FOR RNA-SPECIFYING GENES......Page 231 APPLICATIONS OF RNA STRUCTURE MODELING......Page 233 REFERENCES......Page 234 Phylogenetic Prediction......Page 238 INTRODUCTION......Page 239 RELATIONSHIP OF PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS TO SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT......Page 240 GENOME COMPLEXITY AND PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS......Page 241 THE CONCEPT OF EVOLUTIONARY TREES......Page 245 METHODS......Page 248 MAXIMUM PARSIMONY METHOD......Page 249 DISTANCE METHODS......Page 255 THE MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD APPROACH......Page 275 SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT BASED ON AN EVOLUTIONARY MODEL......Page 276 COMPLICATIONS FROM PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS......Page 279 REFERENCES......Page 280 Database Searching for\r\nSimilar Sequences......Page 282 INTRODUCTION......Page 283 ALLOWING FAST SEARCHES......Page 284 DNA VERSUS PROTEIN SEARCHES......Page 287 SCORING MATRICES FOR SIMILARITY SEARCHES......Page 289 LIMITING OUTPUT......Page 290 METHODS......Page 291 FASTA SEQUENCE DATABASE SIMILARITY SEARCH......Page 292 BASIC LOCAL ALIGNMENT SEARCH TOOL (BLAST)......Page 301 DATABASE SEARCHES WITH THE SMITH-WATERMAN\r\nDYNAMIC PROGRAMMING METHOD......Page 316 DATABASE SEARCHES WITH THE BAYES BLOCK ALIGNER......Page 318 DATABASE SEARCHES WITH A SCORING MATRIX OR PROFILE......Page 321 SEARCHING SEQUENCE DATABASES WITH A POSITION-SPECIFIC\r\nSCORING MATRIX OR SEQUENCE PROFILE......Page 322 OTHER METHODS FOR COMPARING DATABASES OF SEQUENCES AND PATTERNS......Page 327 SUMMARY......Page 333 REFERENCES......Page 335 Gene Prediction......Page 338 INTRODUCTION......Page 339 TESTING THE RELIABILITY OF AN ORF PREDICTION......Page 343 EUKARYOTIC GENES HAVE REPEATED SEQUENCE ELEMENTS THAT PROBABLY\r\nREFLECT NUCLEOSOME STRUCTURE......Page 344 METHODS......Page 347 GENE PREDICTION IN MICROBIAL GENOMES......Page 349 GENE PREDICTION IN EUKARYOTES......Page 353 EVALUATION OF GENE PREDICTION METHODS......Page 357 PROMOTER PREDICTION IN E. COLI......Page 358 PROMOTER PREDICTION IN EUKARYOTES......Page 367 REFERENCES......Page 374 Protein Classification and\r\nStructure Prediction......Page 382 PROTEIN STRUCTURE PREDICTION......Page 383 REVIEW OF PROTEIN STRUCTURE AND TERMINOLOGY......Page 387 PROTEIN CLASSIFICATION......Page 390 METHODS......Page 399 VIEWING PROTEIN STRUCTURES......Page 401 PROTEIN STRUCTURE CLASSIFICATION DATABASES......Page 403 ALIGNMENT OF PROTEIN STRUCTURES......Page 404 STRUCTURAL PREDICTION......Page 428 EVALUATING THE SUCCESS OF STRUCTURE PREDICTIONS......Page 472 STRUCTURAL MODELING......Page 473 REFERENCES......Page 474 Genome Analysis......Page 480 INTRODUCTION......Page 481 GENOME ANATOMY......Page 482 SEQUENCE ASSEMBLY AND GENE IDENTIFICATION......Page 492 METHODS......Page 493 COMPARATIVE GENOMICS......Page 501 FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF GENES......Page 510 GENE ORDER (SYNTENY) IS CONSERVED ON CHROMOSOMES OF RELATED\r\nORGANISMS......Page 511 GLOBAL GENE REGULATION......Page 520 PREDICTION OF GENE FUNCTION BASED ON A COMPOSITE ANALYSIS......Page 524 PUTTING TOGETHER ALL OF THE INFORMATION INTO A GENOME DATABASE......Page 526 REFERENCES......Page 528 Glossary......Page 534 Index......Page 548