1. Viruses Viruses are insidious pathogens, they attack cells from the inside.  They hijack your own DNA and use it against you.  A virus cannot be treated with antibiotics,…

Slide 1 Pairwise sequence alignments Dynamic programming (Needleman-Wunsch), finds optimal alignment Heuristics: Blast (Altschul et al) does not guarantee finding optimal…

Slide 1 Viruses Viruses are pathogens that attack cells from the inside. They hijack your own DNA and use it against you. A virus cannot be treated with antibiotics, it can…

Dangers of Bread ! When are we going to do something about bread- induced global warming? Sure, we attack tobacco companies, but when is the government going to go after…

Lecture 2: Sequence Alignment BMI/IBGP 705 Kun Huang Department of Biomedical Informatics Ohio State University Major issues in genomics Homology Alignment as an optimization…

Slide 1 Nucleic Acids (DNA & RNA) Composed of C O H N & P to form the nucleotides. Nucleotides include: - a 5 carbon sugar - a phosphate group - a nitrogen base (…