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INFO-F438

Algorithms in computational biology

academic year
2024-2025
2025-2026

Course teacher(s)

John IACONO (Coordinator)

ECTS credits

5

Language(s) of instruction

english

Course content

Overview of typical computational issues in biology and their algorithmic solutions, including problems on graphs, pattern matching, sequence alignment using dynamic programming, and NP-hard optimization problems.

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

Students will learn different algorithm design paradigms as they apply to computational biology and be able to apply them to efficiently solve a variety of problems.

Teaching methods and learning activities

There will be a project where students will present a recent research article.

Other information

Campus

Plaine

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

  • written examination
  • Project

written examination

Project

Language(s) of evaluation

  • english

Programmes