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BINF 6201 - Molecular Sequence Analysis


Introduction of the basic computational methods and open sources software commonly used in molecular sequence analysis. Topics include: biological sequence data formats and major public databases, concepts of computer algorithms and complexity, introductions to principle components analysis and data clustering methods, dynamics of genes in populations, evolutionary models of DNA and protein sequences, derivation of amino acid substitution matrices, algorithms for pairwise sequence alignments and multiple sequence alignments, algorithms for fast sequence database search, methods for molecular phylogenetic analysis, hidden Markov models and neural networks for sequence pattern and family recognition, and introductions to genome evolution and comics data analysis.

Credit Hours: (3)
Prerequisite(s): BINF 6100  or equivalent.
Most Recently Offered (Day): Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2021
Most Recently Offered (Evening): Course has not been offered at this time in the past 3 years


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