CS 581: Algorithmic Computational Genomics

Instructor: Tandy Warnow, Founder Professor of Computer Science Tandy Warnow

Spring 2020, TuTh 11:00-12:15 in 1131 Siebel Center.

Course description: This is a course on applied algorithms, focusing on the use of discrete mathematics, graph theory, probability theory, statistics, machine learning, and simulations, to design and analyze algorithms for phylogeny (evolutionary tree) estimation, multiple sequence alignment, genome-scale phylogenetics, genome assembly and annotation, and metagenomics. Each of these biological problems is important and unsolved, so that new methods are needed. Every year, at least one student in the course has done a project that was subsequently published in scientific conferences and journals; you can be one of these students!

Who should take this class: The course is designed for graduate students in CS, ECE, Math, and Statistics; no background in biology is required.

Course Textbook: Computational Phylogenetics: An introduction to designing methods for phylogeny estimation, published by Cambridge University Press.

Grading

For more information, see http://warnow-cs581-Sp2020.html, the full course webpage.