Advanced Topics in Bioinformatics

Course content

This course covers recent developments and open research problems in the area of Bioinformatics. Main topics include: • Multiple sequence alignment, • Protein folding problem, prediction of secondary/tertiary structure, • Multiple structural alignment, protein docking, • Functional classification of proteins, human genome annotation, • Statistical modeling of biological data, kernel based methods, hidden Markov models, • Data integration • Prediction and mining of genetic networks and protein interaction networks.