7.91J Fundamentals of Computational and Systems Biology
7.91J Fundamentals of Computational and Systems Biology (Spring 2014, MIT OCW). Instructors: Prof. Christopher Burge, Prof. David Gifford, and Prof. Ernest Fraenkel. This course is an introduction to computational biology emphasizing the fundamentals of nucleic acid and protein sequence and structural analysis; it also includes an introduction to the analysis of complex biological systems.
The MIT Initiative in Computational and Systems Biology is a campus-wide research and education program that links biology, engineering, and computer science in a multidisciplinary approach to the systematic analysis and modeling of complex biological phenomena. This course is one of a series of core subjects offered through the CSB Ph.D program, for students with an interest in interdisciplinary training and research in the area of computational and systems biology.
(from ocw.mit.edu)
| Lecture 05 - Library Complexity and Short Read Alignment (Mapping) |
Prof. Gifford talks about library complexity as it relates to genome sequencing. He explains how to create a full-text minute-size (FM) index, which involves a Burrows-Wheeler transform (BWT). He ends with how to deal with the problem of mismatching.
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