javaBenzer 5.2

©2004 Vincent Streif and John R. Jungck

BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium

Resources and further reading

  • Benzer, S., 1959, On the topology of genetic fine structure. Proc. Natl. Sci. USA 45, 1607-1620.
  • Benzer, S., 1961, On the topography of the genetic fine structure. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 47, 403-426.
  • Benzer, S., 1962, The fine structure of the gene. Sci. Am. 206, 70-84.
  • Bertman, M. 0. and Jungck, J. R., 1978, Some unresolved mathematical problems in genetic coding. Notices of the American Mathematical Society 25, A-174.
  • Chartrand, G. and Wall, C. E., 1980, Graph theory and the High School student. School Science and Mathematics, 479-485.
  • Cohen, J. E., 1978, Food webs and niche space (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey).
  • Gilmore, P. C. and Hoffman, A. J., 1964, A characterization of comparability graphs and of interval graphs. Can. J. Math. XVI, 539-548.
  • Hudock, G. A., 1967, Experiments in Modern Genetics. New York: Wiley.
  • Jungck, J. R. and Streif, V. F., 1986, Deletion Mapping Of Genetic "Fine Structure": Supplementing Ad Hoc Problem Solving Approaches With Algorithms And Heuristics. BioScene 12, xx-yy.
  • Kuspira, J. and Walker, G. W., 1973, Genetics: Questions and Problems. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company.
  • Mertons, T., 1972, Investigation of three point linkage. American Biology Teacher.
  • Ore, 0., 1963, Graphs and their uses. New York: Random House.
  • Roberts, F. S., 1976, Discrete mathematical models with applications to social, biological, and environmental problems (Prentice-Hall, Engelwood Cliffs, NJ) pp. 111-140.
  • Shkurba, V. V., 1965, Mathematical processing of a class of biochemical experiments. Kibernetika 1, 62-67.
  • Snustad, D. P. and Dean, D. S., 1971, Genetics experiments with bacterial viruses. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company.
  • Stansfield, W. D., 1969, Schaum's outline of theory and problems of genetics. New York: Schaum's Outline Series, McGraw-Hill Book Company. (In his 1983 edition, the problem is on pages 347-348; seven intervals exist in his solution instead of the parsimonious four intervals shown herein.)

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History:

Date: May 3, 2004

Title: javaBenzer 5.2

Name: Vincent Streif and John R. Jungck

Institution: BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium, Beloit College

Acknowledgements:

Modifications: None (first released version). A program named Benzer and possessing some of the same functionality but written in C for the MS-DOS and Win32 environments was previously available from BioQUEST.