Walter Monroe Fitch (May 21, 1929 - March 10, 2011): A memorial tribute

My Memory of Walter Fitch (1929–2011) and Starting Molecular Biology and Evolution

More than 3 years have passed after Walter Fitch died on March 10, 2011. However, my memory of Walter is still fresh and vivid. From the time when he and I started this journal Molecular Biology and Evolution (MBE) in 1983, we had a close contact for about 15 years. He and I also started the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) in 1992. We had a common interest in the theoretical ...

Package ‘ qtl ’ March 21 , 2011

March 21, 2011 Version 1.21-2 Date 18 Mar 2011 Title Tools for analyzing QTL experiments Author Karl W Broman and Hao Wu, with ideas from Gary Churchill and Saunak Sen and contributions from Danny Arends, Ritsert Jansen, Pjotr Prins, and Brian Yandell Maintainer Karl W Broman Description Analysis of experimental crosses to identify genes (ca...

Epidemiology of Cancer in Monroe County Monroe County Department of Public Health March, 2011 Introduction

Background Public Health Law requires that all physicians, dentists, laboratories, and other health care providers report every case of cancer or malignant disease to the Cancer Registry of the New York State Health Department (NYSDOH). Since the 1980’s, the NYSDOH has been publishing county, state and upstate reports that contain five year average annual incidence (newly diagnosed cases) and m...

Fred Sanger: a memorial tribute.

Obituary: Walter Fitch and the orthology paradigm

Walter M. Fitch, a towering giant of molecular evolution, passed away on 10 March 2011. His pivotal contributions to the field are manifold, diverse and profound. He developed some of the first algorithms and practical methods for phylogenetic tree construction; pioneered statistical approaches in sequence comparison and phylogenetic analysis; introduced the covarion approach in the study of ge...