CS 313 - Computational Biology

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Wellesley College

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Tjaden Many elegant computational problems arise naturally in the modern study of molecular biology. This course is an introduction to the de-sign, implementation, and analysis of algorithms with applications in genomics. Topics include bioinformatic algorithms for dynamic pro-gramming, tree-building, clustering, hidden Markov models, expectation maximization, Gibbs sampling, and stochastic context-free gram-mars. Topics will be studied in the context of analyzing DNA sequences and other sources of biological data. Applications include se-quence alignment, gene-finding, structure prediction, motif and pattern searches, and phylogenetic inference. Course projects will involve significant computer programming in Java. No biology background is expected. Not open to students who have taken 303. Alternate year course. Prerequisite: 230 Distribution: Mathematical Modeling Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wellesley.edu

Phone Number:

(781) 283-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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