LEA
Department of Computer Science at the Technische Universität München
Chair for Efficient Algorithms
Postal address: 80290 München; Premises: Arcisstr.21, 80333 München
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Computational Biology (SS 00)


* Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Ernst W. Mayr
Dr. Volker Heun

* Area:
4 lectures per week in area III (Theoretical Computer Science)
advanced course , topic algorithms

* Time and Place:
Tue 8:30 - 10:00, lecture hall 1402
Wed 8:30 - 10:00, lecture hall 0601

* Exercises:
2 hours per week exercises accompanying the lectures
Wed 10h c.t. - 12:00, room S2225
Start: 10. May
Teaching Assistant: Jens Ernst
Course Certificate: To get a course certificate students must get at least 40% on the homework assignments and pass the final oral exam.

* Audience:
graduate students of computer science
students with computer science as minor

* Prerequisites:
1st and 2nd year courses
Course Efficient Algorithms and Datastructures I advantagious, but not necessary.

* Recommended for:
In-depth knowledge in topic Algorithms

* Contents:
  • Basic Concepts of Biology
  • String Matching
  • Pairwise Sequence-Alignment
  • Multiple Sequence-Alignment
  • Fragment Assembly
  • Physical Mapping
  • Genome Rearrangements
  • Protein Structure Prediction
  • Phylogenetic Trees

* Related and Advanced Lectures:
Efficient Algorithms and Datastructures I
Efficient Algorithms and Data Structures II

* Lecture Notes:
Not available.

* References:
M.S. Waterman:
Introduction to Computational Biology: Maps, Sequences and Genomes
Chapman and Hall, 1995
J.C. Setubal, J. Meidanis:
Introduction to Computational Molecular Biology
PWS Publishing Company, 1997
D. Gusfield:
Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences: Computer Science and Computational Biology
Cambridge University Press, 1997

* Office Hours:
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mayr@informatik.tu-muenchen.de