Fall 2005 Course Descriptions
COMP 150-GEN Special Topics: Genomic Sequence Algorithms
This is a course for students who have taken COMP 150-BIO who would like a more in-depth look at the algorithms used to analyze genomic sequences. Topics will be selected from string matching, multiple alignments, suffix trees, Hidden Markov Models, evolutionary trees, etc. Main Text: Algorithms on Strings, Trees and Sequences by Dan Gusfield, 1997, Cambridge University Press.
Prerequisite: COMP 150-BIO. COMP 160 may be helpful as well.