Reviewed “Bioinformatics with Python cookbook” by Tiago Antao

I’ve recently been a reviewer for the book “Bioinformatics with Python cookbook” by Tiago Antao, one of the big authors of BioPython. The book is published by Packt Publishing, and it is a collection of recipes for several bioinformatics tasks, from reading large genome files to doing population genetics and other tasks.     The

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Origins of Evolutionary Innovations, chapter 5

The fifth chapter of prof A . Wagner’s “Origins of Evolutionary Innovations” tries to answer to the question: “Under which common principles do metabolic networks, regulatory circuits, and sequence folds evolve?“. It also formalizes a framework for a theory of innovations, to study how innovative phenotypes can be found by evolution. Together, this chapter is

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Origins of Evolutionary Innovations, chapter 3

Here is the third chapter of “Origins of Evolutionary Innovations”! This chapter describes innovations in regulatory systems, and the evolution of networks of transcription factor sites. The most important message of this chapter is that regulatory circuits can suffer a lot of changes, and yet remain functional. For example, some researchers have change up to

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