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Algorithms for Computational Biology

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States6.096
Free, no sign-up neededJanuary IAP 2011English
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This course is offered to undergraduates and addresses several algorithmic challenges in computational biology. The principles of algorithmic design for biological datasets are studied and existing algorithms analyzed for application to real datasets. Topics covered include: biological sequence analysis, gene identification, regulatory motif discovery, genome assembly, genome duplication and rearrangements, evolutionary theory, clustering algorithms, and scale-free networks.

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