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2015-2016 University Catalog 
    
2015-2016 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CS 57900 - Bioinformatics Algorithms


Credit Hours: 3.00. Review of Genomes, DNA, RNA, proteins, proteomes. Biological Sequences: dynamic programming; pairwise global, local, and semi-global alignments of genes and proteins; constant, affine, and general gap penalties; RNA alignments; BLOSUM and PAM scoring matrices. Multiple alignment of proteins: approximation algorithms; iterative and progressive alignment methods. Database search for sequences: BLAST and variants. Phylogentic Trees: distance-based methods, ultrametric and additive distance functions; parsimony, and maximum likelihood methods. Whole Genome Alignment: suffix trees and suffix arrays. Systems Biology: Module discovery in biological networks, spectral algorithms for graph clustering. Network alignment: quadratic programming formulations and graph matching. Genetic Variation: haplotype inference, the perfect phylogeny problem and chordal graphs. Additional topics such as next-generation sequencing, analysis of multidimensional data from flow cytometry, and gene expression data, if time permits. Typically offered Fall.