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Waterman, Michael Spencer was born in 1942 in Coquille, Oregon, United States. Son of Ray S. and Bessie E. Waterman.
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This book presents the foundations of key problems in computational molecular biology and bioinformatics. It focuses on computational and statistical principles applied to genomes, and introduces the mathematics and statistics that are crucial for understanding these applications. The book features a free download of the R software statistics package and the text provides great crossover material that is interesting and accessible to students in biology, mathematics, statistics and computer science. More than 100 illustrations and diagrams reinforce concepts and present key results from the primary literature. Exercises are given at the end of chapters.
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Biology is in the midst of a era yielding many significant discoveries and promising many more. Unique to this era is the exponential growth in the size of information-packed databases. Inspired by a pressing need to analyze that data, Introduction to Computational Biology explores a new area of expertise that emerged from this fertile field- the combination of biological and information sciences. This introduction describes the mathematical structure of biological data, especially from sequences and chromosomes. After a brief survey of molecular biology, it studies restriction maps of DNA, rough landmark maps of the underlying sequences, and clones and clone maps. It examines problems associated with reading DNA sequences and comparing sequences to finding common patterns. The author then considers that statistics of pattern counts in sequences, RNA secondary structure, and the inference of evolutionary history of related sequences. Introduction to Computational Biology exposes the reader to the fascinating structure of biological data and explains how to treat related combinatorial and statistical problems. Written to describe mathematical formulation and development, this book helps set the stage for even more, truly interdisciplinary work in biology.
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Waterman, Michael Spencer was born in 1942 in Coquille, Oregon, United States. Son of Ray S. and Bessie E. Waterman.
Bachelor of Science, Oregon State University, 1964. Master of Science, Oregon State University, 1966. Master of Arts, Michigan State University, 1968.
Doctor of Philosophy, Michigan State University, 1969.
Associate professor, Idaho State University, Pocatello, 1969-1975;
member of staff, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1975-1982;
consultant, Los Alamos National Laboratory, since 1982;
University of Southern California Associations Endowed Chair, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
professor mathematics and biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, since 1982;
University of Southern California Associations Endowed Chair, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, since 1991. Visiting professor mathematics U. Hawaii, Honolulu, 1979-1980. Visiting professor structural biology University of California-San Francisco, 1982.
Visiting professor Mount Sinai Medical School, New York City, 1988.
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Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Institute of Mathematics Statistics. Member National Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, American Statistical Association, Society Mathematics Biology, Society Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Married Vicki Lynn Buss, August 14, 1962 (divorced March 1977). 1 child, Tracey Lynn.