[Next-Generation Sequencing Book]
  • [Photo] Marcos Oliveira de Carvalho • January 4, 2002
    ``Evolutionary biologists are often interested in reconstructing how different genes evolved from each other. Large numbers of genes can now be sequenced quickly but the development of statistical methods has lagged behind. To analyse even moderately large data sets under realistic evolutionary models, researchers have been forced to use supercomputers. But this is now changing quickly since evolutionary biologists discovered an old statistical approach called Bayesian inference. Reverend Thomas Bayes formulated the basic principles already in the 18th century but the approach was not feasible for most problems until computers could be used to solve the difficult equations numerically.''

    Full story:
    http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2001-12/uu-1cr122001.php

    Reference by sciencemag.com.

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