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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: An Historical Approach to Sequencing
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Emergence: Frederick Sanger’s Pioneering Techniques (1943–1977)
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Mechanisation — 1: Computing and the Automation of Sequence Reconstruction (1962–1987)
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Mechanisation — 2: The Sequencer and the Automation of Sequence Construction (1980–2000)
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Conclusions: A Long History of Practices
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"Overall, this book provides a detailed time line of the events from the earliest methodologies to the metagenomic sequencing standard of today, and is a useful resource for anyone interested in the historical angle of DNA sequencing. Highly recommended." - M.C. Pavao, Worcester State College, Choice
"...an invaluable, possibly even essential, addition to the bookshelf of anyone wishing to understand modern biology in all its facets...The author has done a masterful job of integrating information about the way in which different aspects of computer science...have contributed to the development of sequencing." - Neeraja Sankaran, British Journal for the History of Science, 46: 544
"...a revised dissertation, grounded in a remarkable variety of primary sources including corporate records and oral history interviews." - Ruth Schwatz Cowan, American Historical Review, June 2013: 827
"...a timely and informative history of molecular sequencing ... Overall, Garcia-Sancho's book provides a highly readable and insightful analysis of the history of molecular sequencing, one that should be appreciated for its broad synthesis of existing scholarship and its extensive use of historical documents.." - Doogab Yi, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
"Supported by an impressive archival and oral research, and by a thorough revision of the secondary literature of the field, García-Sancho´s book is a celebration of what the history of recentand contemporary science can achieve, and for years to come it will remain as an obliged reference not only for historians of science, but for sociologists and all those interested in the detailed development of the industrialized-information society." - Edna Suarez-Diaz, Dynamis
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing
Book Subtitle: From Proteins to DNA, 1945-2000
Authors: Miguel García-Sancho
Series Title: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230370937
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-25032-1Published: 11 May 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54332-5Published: 11 May 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37093-7Published: 11 May 2012
Series ISSN: 2946-9643
Series E-ISSN: 2946-9651
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 242
Topics: History of Science, Popular Science, general, History of Medicine, Modern History, Social History, Biochemistry, general