COMP 680 Mining Biological Sequences

4 credits · Computer Science · Graduate Studies · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Advanced algorithms for the annotation of biological sequences. Algorithms and heuristics for pair-wise and multiple sequence alignment. Gene-finding with hidden Markov models and variants. Motifs discovery techniques: over representation and phylogenetic footprinting approaches. RNA secondary struc…

Prerequisites

COMP 462 or with instructor's permission.

Prerequisite courses: COMP 462

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