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Please pick your presentation topics and dates ASAP.

Here is the syllabus in PDF. Note that, although the main textbook is "An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms" by Neil C. Jones and Pavel Pevzner, the MIT Press, 2004, the book by Gusfield is a very useful secondary textbook.

The following are the lecture notes, a subset of which will be used in class:

Main slides from the textbook by Jones and Pevzner.

Material from my old slides will be added from time to time to provide coverage on more sophisticated algorithms in computational biology.

The shortened introductory lecture

Restriction mapping

Sequence alignment and dynamic programming - a succinct treatment

Approximation of shortest common superstrings

You should check the Topics of Presentation and let me know your preferences (topics and presentation dates) as early as possible.


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