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NOTE: This appendix is a reprint of Chapter 1 of the National Research Council report Calculating the Secrets of Life: Contribu-
tions of the Mathematical Sciences to Molecular Biology (National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1995), copyright 1995 by the
National Academy of Sciences.