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Trailing the Dovetail Shuffle to its Lair

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Dense taxonomic EST sampling and its applications for molecular systematics of the Coleoptera (beetles).

Expressed sequence tag (EST) sequences can provide a wealth of data for phylogenetic and genomic studies, but the utility of these resources is restricted by poor taxonomic sampling. Here, we use small EST libraries (<1,000 clones) to generate phylogenetic markers across a broad sample of insects, focusing on the species-rich Coleoptera (beetles). We sequenced over 23,000 ESTs from 34 taxa, whi...

EST-PAGE - managing and analyzing EST data

UNLABELLED EST-PAGE provides a bioinformatics solution for expressed sequence tags (EST) data entry, database management, GenBank submission, process control and data retrieval from a unified web interface that can be easily customized and adapted by groups working on diverse EST sequencing projects. AVAILABILITY The system and source code are available upon request from the authors. SUPPLE...

Trailing the Dovetail Shuffle to Its Lair by Dave

We analyze the most commonly used method for shuffling cards. The main result is a simple expression for the chance of any arrangement after any number of shuffles. This is used to give sharp bounds on the approach to randomness: $ log, n + 0 shuffles are necessary and sufficient to mix up n cards. Key ingredients are the analysis of a card trick and the determination of the idempotents of a na...

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