Sequence alignment and phylogenetic inference [Elektronische Ressource] / Roland Fleißner

Sequence alignment andphylogenetic inferenceInaugural-DissertationzurErlangung des Doktorgrades derMathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultatder Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorfvorgelegt vonRoland Flei neraus Munc henDusseldorf2003Gedruckt mit der Genehmigung der Mathematisch-NaturwissenschaftlichenFakult at der Heinrich-Heine-Universit at DusseldorfReferent: Prof. Dr. Arndt von HaeselerKoreferenten: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Steger, Prof. Dr. Rolf Backofen (Jena)Tag der mundlic hen Prufung: 18. Dezember 2003iiPremature optimization is the root of all evil.(Donald Knuth)AcknowledgementsI would like to thank my advisor Arndt von Haeseler for having the idea forthis project and for his patience, Dirk Metzler and Anton Wakolbinger fortheir enthusiasm and their expertise, Gunter Wei for explaining basic statis-tics, Bojan Basrak and Thomas Schlegel for listening to my stories, HeikoSchmidt and Achim Radtke for giving advice on the usage of computers,Lutz Voigt for keeping the system running and Tanja Gesell for stimulatingdiscussions. I also thank everybody at the zoological institute in Munich,the MPI for evolutionary anthropology in Leipzig, the mathematics depart-ment in Frankfurt and at the bioinformatics institute in Dusseldorf for thepleasant working environments.