COMP 680. Mining Biological Sequences.
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COMP 680
Mining Biological Sequences.
Credits: 4
Offered by: Computer Science (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Advanced algorithms for the annotation of biological sequences. Algorithms and heuristics for pair-wise and multiple sequence alignment. Gene-finding with hidden Markov models and variants. Motifs discovery techniques: over representation and phylogenetic footprinting approaches. RNA secondary structure prediction. Detection of repetitive elements. Representation and annotation of protein domains.
- Prerequisite: COMP 462 or with instructor's permission.
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