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Quick Facts

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

Important dates

Course Commencement Date

Start Date : 20 Jan, 2025

End Date : 11 Apr, 2025

Enrollment Date

End Date : 27 Jan, 2025

Certificate Exam Date

Start Date : 27 Apr, 2025

Other

End Date : 14 Feb, 2025

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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