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 Csűrös
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
About the Author: Dr. Cedric Chauve is an associate professor at the Department of Mathematics of Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Dr. Nadia El-Mabrouk is a full professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Montreal, Canada.
Dr. Eric Tannier is a researcher at the Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics Group of Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, France.
