INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCE ANALYSIS

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Use of bioinformatics programs for the retrieval manipulation, and analysis of DNA and protein sequences. The subjects include: description of sequence data editing software, sequence database searches (nucleotide, proteins and genomes), comparative sequence alignments, applications for the design of specific or degenerate oligonucleotides for the detection of DNA sequences via PCR, and construction of phylogenetic trees using distance, parsimony and maximum likelihood methods.