The analysis of cDNA sequences: an algorithm for alignment.

by Lam Fung Ming.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 45-47).Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- BACKGROUND --- p.4Section 2.1 DNA Cloning --- p.5Section 2.1.1 Principles of cell-based DNA cloning --- p.5Section 2.1.2. Polymerase Chain Reaction --- p.8Section 2.2 DNA Libraries --- p.10Section 2.3. Expressed Sequence Tags --- p.11"Section 2.4 dbEST - Database for ""Expressed Sequence Tag""" --- p.13Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- REDUCTION OF PARTIAL SEQUENCE REDUNDANCY AND CDNA ALIGNMENT --- p.15Section 3.1 Materials --- p.15Section 3.2 Our Algorithm --- p.16Section 3.3 Data Storage --- p.24Section 3.4 Criterion of Alignment --- p.27Section 3.5 Pairwise Alignment --- p.29Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION --- p.32Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- CONCLUSION AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENT --- p.42REFERENCES --- p.45APPENDIX --- p.