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CIS523 Course Abstract This course will introduce the basic computational issues and methods used in biology, combining core lectures, with quizzes and midterm and final. Topics will include basic algorithms for alignment of biological sequences and structures, as well as more advanced representational and algorithmic issues in structure and sequence computation. These include, for example, dynamic programming algorithms for alignment, 3D motif definition and computation, hidden Markov models, phylogenetic trees construction, genetic algorithms.
Prerequisite BIO378 Biology
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