Computational Bioinformatics

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Three hours of lecture in the lab per week Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Computer Science or Mathematics Graduate Program and Consent of Instructor Contemporary computational models used in molecular biology and structures simulations will be introduced. Topics include dynamic programming, statistical/ information techniques for pattern recognition, algorithms for string alignments, structural superposition algorithms, computing with differential information, 3D motifs, Hidden Markov Models, phylogenetic trees, genetic algorithms.