# Evolutionary Puzzles: An Introduction to Genome Rearrangement

@inproceedings{Blanchette2001EvolutionaryPA,
title={Evolutionary Puzzles: An Introduction to Genome Rearrangement},
author={Mathieu Blanchette},
booktitle={International Conference on Computational Science},
year={2001}
}
• M. Blanchette
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28 May 2001
• Biology
This paper is intended to serve as an introduction to genome rearrangement and its use for inferring phylogenetic trees. We begin with a brief description of the major players of the field (chromosomes, genes, etc.) and the types of mutations that can affect them, focussing obviously on genome rearrangement. This leads to a simple mathematical representation of the data (the order of the genes on the chromosomes), and the operations that modify it (inversions, transpositions, and translocations…
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