Bioinformatics Algorithms (Part 2) from University of California, San Diego
####Course Syllabus
- Which Animal Gave Us SARS? (Evolutionary Trees)
- How Do We Locate Disease-Causing Mutations? (Combinatorial Pattern Matching)
- How Did Yeast Become Such a Good Wine Brewer? (Clustering Algorithms)
- Why Do We Still Not Have an HIV Vaccine? (Hidden Markov Models)
- Was T. rex Just a Big Chicken? (Computational Proteomics)
- What Genetic Characteristics Do Human Populations Share? (Principal Components Analysis)
This is the second course in a two-part series on bioinformatics algorithms, covering the following topics: evolutionary tree reconstruction, applications of combinatorial pattern matching for read mapping, gene regulatory analysis, protein classification, computational proteomics, and computational aspects of human genetics.