You can download the lectures here. We will try to upload lectures prior to their corresponding classes.
Majority of slides used in this class were originally created by Prof. Robert Beiko and modified (to greater and lesser degrees) by myself.
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01 Course Overview & Life at Resolution
tl;dr: Overview of the course, motivational plagues, and biology background from DNA to Ecosystems
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02 Central Dogma & Pathways
tl;dr: Foundational material on biochemical pathways and how central dogma determines how biological data is copied and interpreted by cells
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03 Molecular Evolution
tl;dr: Foundational material on molecular evolution
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04 Sequence Representations
tl;dr: Strings and structures for encoding biological sequence data for computation
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05 Sequence Alignment - Definitions and Scoring
tl;dr: How we define and score sequence alignments
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06 Optimal Alignment - Dynamic Programming
tl;dr: How dynamic programming approaches can be used to generate optimal alignments
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07 Fast Sequence Searches: BLAST and friends
tl;dr: Overview of the BLAST algorithm and related approaches
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