Vorlesung/Lecture "Algorithms for Biologists"

Dozent / Lecturer

Prof. Dr. Rolf Backofen, Dr. Dominic Rose, Kousik Kundu

Termine / Dates

Voraussetzungen / Prerequisites

Basic knowledge in molecular biology and computer science will be advantageous.

Additional Information and Material

Literature

We will not only introduce standard algorithms but also present selected results of recent and current research. Therefore, the following books may help to follow the course, since they provide lots of background information. However, the lecture is not based upon these books.

• Computational Molecular Biology: An Introduction.
  Peter Clote and Rolf Backofen.
  Jon Wiley & Sons, Chichester, August 2000.
• Bioinformatics: Sequence and genome analysis
  David W. Mount
  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York, 2004.
• Biological sequence analysis - Probabilistic models of proteins and nucleic acids.
  Richard Durbin, Sean Eddy, Anders Krogh and Graeme Mitchison.
  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998.
• Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences.
  Dan Gusfield.
  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997.