Models and Algorithms for Genome Evolution

Part I: Emergence of Standard Algorithms

- What's Behind Blast Gene Myers

- Forty Years of Model-Based Phylogeography David Bryant and Jamie Kydd

- How to Infer Ancestral Genome Features by Parsimony Miklós Cs?rös

- Duplication, Rearrangement and Reconciliation Cedric Chauve, Nadia El-Mabrouk, Laurent Guéguen, Magali Semeria and Eric Tannier

- The Genesis of the DCJ Formula Anne Bergeron and Jens Stoye

Part II: New Lights on Current Paradigms Large-Scale Multiple Sequence Alignment and Phylogeny Estimation Tandy Warnow

- Rearrangements in Phylogenetic Inference Bernard M.E. Moret, Yu Lin and Jijun Tang

- Status of Research on Insertion and Deletion Variations in the Human Population Liqing Zhang, Mingming Liu and Layne T. Watson

- A Retrospective on Genomic Preprocessing for Comparative Genomics Binhai Zhu

- A Comparison of DCJ and Algebraic Distances Joao Meidanis and Sophia Yancopoulos

Part III: Promising Directions Fractionation, Rearrangement, Consolidation, Reconstruction David Sankoff and Chunfang Zheng

- Error Detection and Correction of Gene Trees Manuel Lafond, Krister M. Swenson and Nadia El-Mabrouk

- The Potential of Family-Free Genome Comparison Marília D.V. Braga, Cedric Chauve, Daniel Doerr, Katharina Jahn, Jens Stoye, Annelyse Thévenin and Roland Wittler

- Genetic History of PopulationsDaniel E. Platt, Filippo Utro, Marc Pybus and Laxmi Parida

Dr. Cedric Chauve is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Dr. Nadia El-Mabrouk is a full professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Montreal, QC, Canada.

Dr. Eric Tannier is a researcher in the Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics Group at INRIA, Lyon, France.