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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    INR 1000yesIISc Bangalore

    The Syllabus

    • Brief review of the fundamentals of molecular biology and genetics. 
    • Examples of widely used software, algorithms, databases.

    • Suffix trees, suffix arrays, BWT, and their applications

    • Classic dynamic programming ideas for pairwise sequence alignment. 
    • Statistical measures of alignment significance.

    • Mathematical ideas underlying heuristic sequence aligners.
    • Aplications of sequence alignment for mutation finding and disease diagnosis.

    • de Bruijn Graphs, Overlap graphs, Shortest common superstring

    • Multiple sequence alignment – formulations, optimal and approximation algorithms
    • Classical and contemporary algorithms for inferring evolutionary trees.

    • Gene finding. Hidden Markov models
    • Large language models for biological sequences

    • Gene finding. Hidden Markov models
    • Large language models for biological sequences

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