by Lam Fung Ming. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 45-47). / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- BACKGROUND --- p.4 / Section 2.1 DNA Cloning --- p.5 / Section 2.1.1 Principles of cell-based DNA cloning --- p.5 / Section 2.1.2. Polymerase Chain Reaction --- p.8 / Section 2.2 DNA Libraries --- p.10 / Section 2.3. Expressed Sequence Tags --- p.11 / "Section 2.4 dbEST - Database for ""Expressed Sequence Tag""" --- p.13 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- REDUCTION OF PARTIAL SEQUENCE REDUNDANCY AND CDNA ALIGNMENT --- p.15 / Section 3.1 Materials --- p.15 / Section 3.2 Our Algorithm --- p.16 / Section 3.3 Data Storage --- p.24 / Section 3.4 Criterion of Alignment --- p.27 / Section 3.5 Pairwise Alignment --- p.29 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION --- p.32 / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- CONCLUSION AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENT --- p.42 / REFERENCES --- p.45 / APPENDIX --- p.i