Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. Introduction. 1.1. Group testing. 1.2. Nonadaptive group testing. 1.3. Applications in molecular biology. 1.4. Pooling designs for two simple applications. 1.5. Pooling designs and mathematics. 1.6. An outline of the book. References
  • ch. 2. Basic theory on separating matrices. 2.1. d-Separable and d-separable matrices. 2.2. d-disjunct matrices. 2.3. The minimum number of pools for given d and n. 2.4. Combinatorial bounds for d-disjunct matrices with constant weight. 2.5. Asymptotic lower and upper bounds. 2.6. (d, r)-disjunct matrices. 2.7. Error-tolerance. References
  • ch. 3. Deterministic designs. 3.1. t-designs and t-packing. 3.2. Direct construction. 3.3. Explicit construction of selectors. 3.4. Grid designs. 3.5. Error-correcting code. 3.6. Transversal designs. 3.7. The d = 2 case. References
  • ch. 4. Deterministic designs from partial orders. 4.1. Subset containment designs. 4.2. Partial order of faces in a simplicial complex. 4.3. Monotone graph properties. 4.4. Partial order of linear spaces over a finite field. 4.5. Atomic poset. References
  • ch. 5. Random pooling designs and probabilistic analysis. 5.1. Introduction to random designs. 5.2. A general approach to compute probabilities of unresolved clones. 5.3. Random incidence designs. 5.4. Random k-set designs. 5.5. Random r-size designs. 5.6. Random distinct k-set designs. 5.7. Intersection pooling designs. 5.8. Subset containment designs in extended use. 5.9. Edge-representative decoding with r = 2 and d = 3. 5.10. Some trivial 2-stage pooling designs. References
  • ch. 6. Pooling designs on complexes. 6.1. Introduction. 6.2. A construction of (H : d; z)-disjunct matrix. 6.3. (d, r; z]-disjunct matrix. 6.4. Constructions for (d, r; z]-disjunct matrices. 6.5. Random designs. 6.6. Trivial two-stage pooling designs for complete r-graphs. 6.7. Sequential algorithms for H[symbol]. References
  • ch. 7. Contig sequencing. 7.1. Introduction. 7.2. Some probability analysis of a k-subset. 7.3. Sequential algorithms. 7.4. Nonadaptive algorithms for matching. 7.5. The 3-stage procedure. References
  • ch. 8. The inhibitor model. 8.1. Introduction. 8.2. 1-round algorithm. 8.3. Sequential and k-round algorithms. 8.4. Some other inhibitor models. References
  • ch. 9. Hyperplane designs. 9.1. Introduction. 9.2. m-dimensional arrays. 9.3. A K[symbol] x K[symbol] decomposition of K[symbol]. 9.4. Efficiency. 9.5. Other transversal designs. 9.6. Two recent applications. References
  • ch 10. Non-unique probe selection. 10.1. Introduction. 10.2. Complexity of pooling designs. 10.3. Complexity of minimum pooling designs. 10.4. Approximations of minimum pooling designs. References.