A Primer of Genome Science - Softcover

Gibson, Greg; Muse, Spencer V.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878932364 ISBN 13: 9780878932368

Publisher: OUP USA, 2009

Synopsis

An affordable introduction to genome science

About this title

About the Author

Greg Gibson is Professor and Director of the Center for Integrative Genomics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and holds adjunct appointments at Emory University School of Medicine, North Carolina State University, and the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute. He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Biology at the University of Sydney and a Ph.D. in Cell Biology at the University of Basel (with Walter J. Gehring). Dr. Gibson serves on the editorial boards of several leading journals, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research is in quantitative genetics and genomics, focusing on human variability and predictive health. He has also worked with the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster extensively.

Spencer V. Muse is Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics, Bioinformatics Research Center at North Carolina State University. He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Statistics and Genetics, both at NCSU (the latter with Bruce Weir and Trudy Mackay). Dr. Muse was the recipient of a Sloan Foundation Young Investigator Award (1997-2001). His research is in molecular evolution and bioinformatics.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0878932364
• ISBN 13: 9780878932368
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 344