Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
Srikrishnan Divakaran
Computer Science Department
Hofstra University
Title: Analysis of Biological Sequences
Abstract:
Bioinformatics is a study of problems related to storage,
retrieval and analysis of information about the sequence,
structure and function of biological sequences.
In this talk, I will present algorithms and tools for sequence
alignment, (pairwise and multiple sequence alignment) a
central topic in bioinformatics that is key to understanding
the evolutionary relationships among various protein
sequences, and also for sequencing and retrieving biological
sequences like DNA, m-RNA and proteins.
In this talk, I will particularly focus on tools for analyzing
algorithms for sequence alignment of DNA and protein sequences.