Bioinformatics Algorithms (Part 2)

The course will be based on six "chapters" covering the following central questions, with the algorithmic ideas that we will use to solve them in parentheses:

• How Do We Locate Disease-Causing Mutations? (Combinatorial Pattern Matching)
• Which Animal Gave Us SARS? (Evolutionary Trees)
  
• How Did Yeast Become Such a Good Wine Brewer? (Clustering Algorithms)
  
• Why Do We Still Not Have an HIV Vaccine? (Hldden Markov Models)
• Was T. rex Just a Big Chicken? (Computational Proteomics)

The grading for the course will be based on several weekly programming challenges, as well as a comprehension quiz at the end of each chapter.